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the most improved award, it's kind of in the name, right? It goes to the player that most improved
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over the course of the season and probably compared to the season prior as well
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So without further ado, the nominees this year for the most improved award are Lucas Raymond
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Michael Rasmussen, and Simon Edvinson. And the winner is, by in a unanimous vote
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Lucas Raymond. Woo! All that good stuff. I'll go first since I'm presenting the award
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Obviously, like I said, it's unanimous. We all voted for Lucas Raymond on this one. I think that he was, even when I was kind of putting together the ballot, I think he was kind of the
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slam dunk choice for this award specifically. We talked about it throughout the year, throughout
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the season, how this seemed to be the year where Raymond really kind of announced himself as a
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up-and-coming superstar. When Dylan Larkin went down with that injury in the second half of the
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season, it was Raymond who really put the team on his back and was scoring clutch goals and on a lot
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of nights was their best player and you could argue their only player, but that's a whole other
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topic. You know, last year, sophomore slump, people were wondering if he was going to be able
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to carry a line by himself. And this year he answered all those questions and more. So for me
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there's no doubt I think Lucas Raymond is deserving of this award and I'm glad that he won it
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What do you guys think on our winner for the most improved award? Well, first and foremost, I didn't get a chance off at the start to say how great you guys look
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all in your suits and dressed up, man. Look at us, guys. I don't know about you guys, but I was
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telling Satoru before, man, this jacket's really tight. You guys might go fat guy in a little coat
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here down the middle at any point. So you're not going to see a lot of movements out of me
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and explain this, but I just want to tell you guys you look great. Yeah, Lucas Raymond
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no doubt in anyone's mind. You know, we've, I mean, it's part of the broken record club here
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at the grind that we, you know, we love Lucas Raymond. Everyone loves Lucas Raymond
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He was amazing this year. He took to me two steps forward. I think again, he's, you know
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he's a free agent this year and this is where he's going to get paid the big dollars. So I'm
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hoping the Red Wings lock him up soon. He was amazing. He carried this team for stretches
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the emotion when he scored some of those big goals, especially in the end in Montreal
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which was really fun. This guy's, he's got the potential to be a superstar in this league and
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he's someone that the Red Wings are going to hopefully lock up for a long time
