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Moritz Seider

25 and a half minutes a night, 60 points, and a 32 goal shortfall behind him.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2021-22	DET	82	7	43	50	-9	34	2	0	4	187	3.7	23:02
2022-23	DET	82	5	37	42	-11	40	1	1	1	140	3.6	23:09
2023-24	DET	82	9	33	42	-7	51	3	0	0	135	6.7	22:22
2024-25	DET	82	8	38	46	-5	40	4	0	0	162	4.9	25:04
2025-26	DET	82	10	50	60	+15	57	3	0	2	187	5.3	25:40
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	410	39	201	240	-17	222	13	1	7	811	4.8	23:51

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

10 goals and 50 assists in all 82 games — 60 points, plus-15, at 25:40 a night with 1,596 5-on-5 minutes, the most of any player in this edition.

The Finesse Game

50 assists from a defenceman playing the hardest minutes in the league is the number that matters. He breaks the puck out under pressure, he finds the stretch pass, and he does it against every top line on the schedule.

The shot is a point shot and used honestly: 276 unblocked attempts, 78 per cent from beyond 40 feet, median 50, 10 goals. He gets it through, which is most of the job from there.

The Physical Game

6-2, 210, and genuinely hard to play against — 57 penalty minutes, a willingness to finish checks, and he clears his own net front, which a lot of modern puck-movers do not.

The Intangibles

While he was on the ice at 5-on-5 the expected goals ran 72.1 to 57.3 in his favour — 55.7 per cent — and the actual goals went 70 for and 57 against.

Those two agree to within 2 goals, and on this club that is the remarkable part. Detroit under-finished at even strength by 21 goals, 30th in the league, and almost none of it happened on his ice. Nor was he being carried: the club allowed 169 5-on-5 goals against an expectation of 175, so the men behind him were 6 goals better than the chances they faced, and he did not need them to be.

11 points in his last 10. He is 25, a 6th overall pick, and the plus-15 beside his name is somehow still understating him.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.7% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 43.5% for his club in the minutes he sat: +12.2, 100th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:28 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,596 minutes

Expected goals: 55.7%; 91st pct
Shot attempts: 53%; 81st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 70 for, 57 against. Expected: 72.1 and 57.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

89th

Numbers

91st

The two rank him within 2 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 52nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.52 a game
Distance: 3.66 miles a game
Hardest shot: 98.9 mph; 93rd pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 10 assists, 23 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1596 minutes at five-on-five

Simon Edvinsson68%
Ben Chiarot14%

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.7% — 7.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,596 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Simon Edvinsson	55.2%	56.8%	42.1%
Lucas Raymond	54.6%	56.3%	45.6%
Dylan Larkin	51.6%	57.8%	46.3%

55.2% together, 56.8% for him apart and 42.1% for Edvinsson apart. Edvinsson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Edvinsson than for him.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

276 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.