Lucas Raymond and Team Sweden ended their 2024 IIHF Worlds campaign with a win over Canada in the bronze medal game

Lucas Raymond's 2024 IIHF Worlds campaign has officially come to an end, and, the best news for Red Wings fans is that the 22-year-old winger set for a robust pay raise this summer does so in full health.

The second best news is that Raymond enjoyed a successful tournament.  The Swedes—having defeated Canada today in the bronze medal game—will return home with a medal, though not the one they most aspired to.  At a personal level, Raymond finished the tournament with four goals and five assists in 10 games.

Raymond and the Swedes fell 7-3 to hosts Czechia (the same team to knock out Trey Augustine, Jeff Petry, and Team USA) in yesterday's semifinal with Raymond picking up an assist in the losing effort.  By beating the Canadians, Sweden assured that neither Canada nor the U.S. would medal at men's worlds for the firs time since 2014.

Czechia will take on Switzerland in today's gold medal game to determine the 2024 IIHF men's world champion, in a match-up assured to bring about a non-traditional gold medalist.  The Czech Republic last won the event in 2010, winning for the sixth time since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.  Meanwhile, Switzerland has never won gold, with its best finishes coming in the form of silver medals in 2018, 2013, and 1935.

For Raymond, the bronze medal caps a breakout season in which he set career highs in goals (31), assists (41), and points (72) with the Red Wings, before playing a starring role for his country to conclude the year.  It's an excellent note on which to enter a contract negotiation.

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