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Moritz Seider
Detroit Red Wings Defense
46 points and 25:04 a night at 24, and on-ice goals of 50-66 in the hardest minutes on the club.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 328 | 29 | 151 | 180 | -32 | 165 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 624 | 4.7 | 23:24 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
8 goals and 38 assists in 82 games for 46 points, minus-5, on 25:04 a night — the heaviest workload on the club — and 162 shots.
48.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 38th percentile, over 1,478 minutes. His on-ice goals were 50-66 against an expected 57-60, which is 6 goals of goaltending against him and a chance share that reflects taking every hard assignment on a club that was 26th in chance share.
The Finesse Game
The passing is the skill and it is genuinely high-end. He beats a forecheck with a first pass rather than by carrying, and 38 assists at this age is a real total on a club that scored 228 goals.
162 shots and 8 goals with two-thirds from beyond 40 feet — the release is ordinary and the offence is all from the line. The skating is good for the size without being a weapon; he defends with reach and reading rather than with recovery speed.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, and he plays a genuinely hard game. He finishes checks, defends his net front, and is willing in the corners against anybody.
40 penalty minutes over 82 games is a moderate rate for the style. The durability is exceptional — four consecutive full seasons at 24 minutes a night from a 24-year-old.
The Intangibles
A 6th overall pick, a Calder trophy, and four seasons of being the most heavily used defenceman on a club that keeps not making the playoffs.
He is a genuine number-one defenceman being used as one on a roster that does not have a second. The next contract is the largest financial decision this organisation faces.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,478 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.8%
- 39th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.9%
- 41st 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: 50 for, 66 against. Expected: 57.4 and 60.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 48 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1478 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Chiarot58%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.8% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,478 minutes at five-on-five — 98th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Chiarot | 47.2% | 51.2% | 41.7% |
| Dylan Larkin | 50.6% | 47.6% | 52.2% |
| Lucas Raymond | 51.5% | 47.0% | 53.6% |
47.2% together, 51.2% for him apart and 41.7% for Chiarot apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Chiarot behind.
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
242 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.