Detroit Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond on missing playoffs again
Detroit Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond, April 19, 2025 in Detroit.
Lucas Raymond contributed a goal to help Sweden to a bronze medal at the 2025 Ice Hockey World Championship.
Raymond and his Detroit Red Wings teammates Simon Edvinsson and Erik Gustafsson celebrated a 6-2 victory over Scandinavian rival Denmark on Sunday, May 25, at Avicii Arena in Stockholm. They had to settle for the consolation game after losing in the semifinals.
“It’s been an unreal experience, playing in front of your home country fans with family and friends in the stands,” Raymond said via the International Ice Hockey Federation website. “It’s been amazing. But obviously it’s tough to look back and not feel disappointed. That’s the reality. That’s hockey, and we move on.”
It was Raymond’s fifth goal and 11th point in 10 games at the prestigious event.
The match pitted the Swedes against the Danes, who wrote the best story of the tournament when they upset Canada in the quarterfinals. But the Swedes were too much, and Raymond’s goal was a backbreaker. During a Danish power play in the third period, Raymond pounced on a loose puck inside Sweden’s zone and raced up ice to make it 4-0.
Nikolaj Ehlers, a potential free agent target for the Wings this summer, scored shortly after teammate Nick Olesen to pull the Danes within two goals, but Sweden came back with another goal.
Gustafsson assisted on Sweden’s sixth goal, picking up his seventh assist of the tournament. Edvinsson had one point, an assist, earlier in the tournament.
The Swedes were the only Wings standing on the event’s last day. Marco Kasper had a great outing for the Austrians with four goals and three assists in eight games before Austria was bounced in the quarterfinals by Switzerland.
Moritz Seider, named captain of Germany, had one assist in seven games. The Germans lost the last four games of the round-robin part of the tournament and didn’t advance out of the preliminary round.
Michael Brandsegg-Nygård, the Wings’ first-round pick from 2024, had four assists in five games for Norway, which also didn’t make it out of the preliminary round.
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