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Moritz Seider
Detroit Red Wings Defense
One hundred and thirteen assists in 246 games at 23, and twenty-two minutes a night against everybody's best line on a club ranked 27th at suppressing chances.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 246 | 21 | 113 | 134 | -27 | 125 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 462 | 4.5 | 22:51 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
All 82 games, 9 goals and 33 assists for 42 points, 3 on the power play, 51 penalty minutes, 22:22 a night and minus-7. He took 43.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,392 minutes, the 13th percentile, and his ice went 62-69 against an expectation of 51.22-66.45.
Five goals fewer against than the chances predicted and four more for, and a minus-7 anyway. The 12th percentile is a hard number to look at and it belongs to the assignment as much as to the man: he plays the most on a club that took 45.8 per cent of the shot attempts, against whoever the other club sends out.
The Finesse Game
He carries the puck out of his own zone rather than passing it out, and at 6-2 and 210 with long strides he is difficult to separate from it once he has begun.
One hundred and thirteen assists in 246 career games is a genuine first-pair playmaking rate at 23, and it has been that from his first season. He sees the seam through the neutral zone and hits it early. One hundred and thirty-five shots at a median of 49 feet with 74 per cent from beyond 40; 21 goals in 246 career games says the shot is a delivery rather than a threat.
The Physical Game
He finishes his checks and he is unpleasant along the wall, and 51 penalty minutes in 82 games at 22:22 a night is the rate of a defenceman who initiates rather than reacts.
He clears the front of his own net at 210 pounds. That the club still ranked 27th at suppressing chances is not a thing one defenceman can fix.
The Intangibles
Sixth overall in 2019 out of Zell, a Calder at 21, and 246 games at 22:51 a night before his 24th birthday. He has been the best defenceman on this club since the day he arrived.
The chance share will look different the moment the roster in front of him does. Everything else about him already looks like a first-pair defenceman on a good club.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
- hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
8 of 133 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 6.0%, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He carries the puck out of his own zone rather than passing it out, and at 6-2 and 210 with long strides he is difficult to separate from it once he has begun.”
“One hundred and thirteen assists in 246 career games is a genuine first-pair playmaking rate at 23, and it has been that from his first season.”
“He finishes his checks and he is unpleasant along the wall, and 51 penalty minutes in 82 games at 22:22 a night is the rate of a defenceman who initiates rather than reacts.”
“He clears the front of his own net at 210 pounds.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,392 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.5%
- 13th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 21st pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 62 for, 69 against. Expected: 51.2 and 66.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 38 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2023-24 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.38 a game
- Distance
- 3.01 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.6 mph
- 89th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1392 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Chiarot21%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.5% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,392 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Walman | 42.6% | 44.8% | 40.9% |
| Lucas Raymond | 42.1% | 44.3% | 53.1% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 46.3% | 42.2% | 51.2% |
42.6% together, 44.8% for him apart and 40.9% for Walman apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
179 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 55 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.