The Detroit Red Wings forwarding Lucas Raymond with an eight-year, $64.6 million contract on Monday, marking an average annual value of $8.075 million.
Raymond, 22, was the fourth overall pick in the 2020 NHL draft and has become one of the Red Wings’ best players.
In 2023-24, Raymond’s third season in the league, he led Detroit with 72 points (31 goals, 41 assists). All of those numbers were career bests. He appeared in all 82 games and also set personal records in blocks (27), shots on target (69), steals (48) and plus-minus (minus-12).
Over the course of 238 career games, Raymond accumulated 174 points (71 goals, 103 assists) for the Red Wings.
He and his young teammates as defenders Moritz Seider are trying to end the Original Six franchise’s eight-year playoff drought. The Red Wings went 41-32-9 (91 points) last season and missed the postseason by a tiebreaker for the final wild-card spot with Washington DC.
