One main domino has fallen for the Detroit Crimson Wings as the team announced an eight-year, $64.6M extension for ahead Lucas Raymond.
The deal can pay Raymond an AAV of $8.075M over the lifetime of the contract and he’ll don the winged wheel till the 2031-32 NHL season. TSN’s Pierre LeBrun later reported that there aren’t any signing bonuses inside the contract and Raymond will probably be granted a no-trade clause for the final 4 years.
It ends a summer season of uncertainty for Raymond because the Crimson Wings waited till simply three days earlier than coaching camp to lock up certainly one of their most promising forwards. Detroit nonetheless must signal restricted free agent defenseman Moritz Seider to a deal earlier than the beginning of the 12 months and can now have slightly below $8.75M accessible in cap house to take action.
The Crimson Wings chosen Raymond with the No. 4 choose of the 2020 NHL Draft within the second 12 months of normal supervisor Steve Yzerman’s tenure. He spent that 12 months and the subsequent with the SHL’s Frolunda HC scoring 10 targets and 28 factors in 67 video games from 2019-21.
Raymond joined the Crimson Wings with out ever having performed a sport for his or her AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids making his NHL within the 2021-22 season. Raymond skated in all 82 video games for Detroit scoring 23 targets and 57 factors ending fourth in Calder Trophy voting behind Michael Bunting, Trevor Zegras and Seider.
He shortly grew to become the best ahead on the crew behind Tyler Bertuzzi and Dylan Larkin after ending third in scoring, third in shot makes an attempt, and third in CorsiFor%.
