We needed a guy on the left side, a guy who was fast enough for teams style and who could put up some goals. (That was the big question mark before the season, funny as it seems now.) Raymonds pace this season would amount to 21 goals and 33 points over 82 games. His career averages would be 18 goals and 39 points.
Considering his post-injury play was clearly his worst stretch, overall I think we can say that outside of the injury he has mostly delivered what was expected of him. I think his production has been especially decent considering that he's been mostly playing on the 3rd line instead of top 6. It's awesome that both Bouma and Gaudreau passed him, but not something you could have counted on as a GM.
Paying 3.1M for an above average depth scorer is something the team can easily do right now, and when the time comes to move him he should be an easy sell.
Tl;dr:
Too bad about the injury, but other than that I'm fine with Raymond.
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