Detroit Red Wings on Lucas Raymond injury: 'We hope to get him back'

Describing the hit as not looking that bad, the Detroit Red Wings sounded optimistic about Lucas Raymond's status.

There was no immediate medical update following the Wings' 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday, Oct. 13, which Raymond left midway through after suffering an upper-body injury when he was hit along the boards by Chris Tanev.

'It looked pretty innocent, actually," coach Todd Mclellan said postgame, adding, "Really hard not having Razor, but we hope to get him back."

McLellan said the Wings have to get him home and "evaluate him." The team next plays Wednesday against the Florida Panthers.

Raymond has two goals and one assist – he set up Dylan Larkin's goal Monday – in three games.

Raymond plays on the Wings' top line and is also critical to the power play. Making do without him is a challenge.

"It's big," McLellan said. "You could see our power play was a little out of whack. The timing, the sense of comfort of having him there was thrown off. I thought our penalty kill didn't get affected much by it. It was pretty good. But the rolling of lines, Larkes, I think Larks was in the box three times tonight. All of a sudden, those two aren't in the game for a lot of it (4:26). It puts a lot of pressure on some other players, and Larks, especially in the third period, sat for four of the 20. 

"So tough when you lose both of them."

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