D Season:
Vilardi - 1.24 PPG
Rasmussen - 1.1 PPG
D+1 Season:
Vilardi - 1.81 PPG
Rasmussen - 1.26 PPG
You must be new here, trying to incite arguments using rates entirely out of context like that. There has been multiple discussions on the impacts of Rasmussen playing through his injury, recovering from surgery, and then finally playing at full speed.
Craig Custance wrote a piece near the end of April on Rasmussen discussing the evolution of his season. He decided to have surgery around Christmas, and was back practicing and playing by the end of January; the thing is, he was still sore and still restricted by his wrist and had a hard time getting comfortable and confident with it. He details how he finally found a comfort zone some time a few weeks before this article was published in late April. Without knowing exactly when he found that comfort level, you can look at the playoffs, where he produced at a 2.35 rate for 14 games. Or go further into the end of the regular season until the beginning of March, which brings his rate down a touch (likely catching some games he wasn't exactly comfortable) which brings you to a 1.87 in 23 games. If you take it back to late January when he returned from injury, you get a 1.56 rate in 39 games.
As he got healthy and comfortable, he started producing in a manner that very, very few can replicate. Yes, Vilardi had a damn good year, but we didn't get to see a full year of what Rasmussen is capable of when he's healthy, but what he did when he was healthy was outstanding.