page_title: Mason Raymond
section_title: Toronto and Calgary
hierarchical_section_title: Mason Raymond / Playing career / Toronto and Calgary
caption_attribution_description: English: Calgary Flames forward Mason Raymond during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, December 12, 2014, at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
context_page_description: Mason Evan Raymond is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and the Anaheim Ducks. He represented Canada in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Born in Cochrane, Alberta, but growing up in Calgary, Alberta, he played Junior A in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for two seasons, where he captured league and regional titles with the Camrose Kodiaks, while also being named league MVP in 2005. He then joined the college ranks with the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association for a two-year tenure there, as well. He earned WCHA All-Rookie honours in 2006, WCHA First Team All-Star honours in 2007, and was also named the Bulldogs' most valuable player in 2007. Raymond was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in the second round, 51st overall. After spending parts of two seasons with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, he joined the club full-time in 2007–08. He is known as a fast-skating offensive player.
context_section_description: In September 2013, Raymond signed a try-out contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs then a one-year contract with the club. In his first game in Toronto, Raymond scored a goal, 2 assists and scored the shootout winner. Despite not being a physical player Raymond gained notoriety in Toronto when he threw a hard hit on Chris Neil in the first period. The hit left Neil a little woozy and shaken up. Raymond enjoyed a bounce-back season in 2013–14, scoring 19 goals and 45 points in 82 games, his best statistics since the 2009–10 season with the Vancouver Canucks.
  The Calgary Flames declined an opportunity to sign Raymond when he was a free agent in 2013, but the departure of Michael Cammalleri in 2014 left the team in need of a veteran forward. Calgary signed Raymond to a three-year contract worth $9.5 million. In the second game of the 2014–15 season, Raymond scored the 100th goal of his NHL career as part of this third career hat trick to lead the Flames to a 5–2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
  In a game against the Nashville predators on January 27, 2016 Raymond was chasing preds defender Petter Granberg for the puck when to his surprise Raymond hit him against the glass rattling the boards hard. Combined with a hit later in the game from Lance Bouma, Granberg suffered an upper body injury. Always known to be a player who throws hits very rarely, this was the second time a hit by Raymond had caused an injury to the receiver, with another being on Chris Neil in 2013. On the eve of the 2015–16 season, Raymond was placed on waivers, for the purpose of being sent down to the AHL. He cleared the following day and was assigned to the Stockton Heat. During the season, Raymond appeared in 29 games with the Flames, contributing with 5 points. Despite producing at a point-per-game in the AHL with Stockton, at the conclusion of the year, Raymond was placed on waivers by the Calgary Flames on June 29, 2016, and was bought-out from the final year of his contract the following day.
caption: Raymond defends against Patric Hörnqvist of the Penguins during a game in 2014.
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