Here’s the press release that Rogle BK’s Lasse Mauritzson posted regarding their landing of Moritz Seider on loan from the Detroit Red Wings:
Rogle borrows defensive talent from Detroit Red Wings
German prospect Moritz Seider is ready to play in Rögle BK for the rest of the season. The 19-year-old defenseman was selected as the sixth player overall in last summer’s draft by the Detroit Red Wings. Now the NHL club is lending Seider to Rögle this season.
“We as an association are happy and proud of the confidence the Detroit Red Wings show us by letting us be part of developing Moritz Seider into a future regular NHL player. Moritz is a two-way, right-handed hill that is very mobile and has a good shot from the blueline,” says Rögle’s sports director Chris Abbott.
Moritz Seider is one of German hockey’s biggest prospect names. The well-built right-handed defenseman, 192 cm long and 94 kg heavy, was chosen in the first round as the sixth player overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the summer of 2019. This after a successful season where Moritz managed to become German senior champion with Adler Mannheim during the 18-19 season, and played in the World Championship for Germany. The Detroit Red Wings have high expectations of their young defenseman; last season he played for the Grand Rapids farm team in the AHL, and the idea was to start the season in German Adler Mannheim. But the German league doesn’t yet know when it will start, so instead Detroit chooses to place its defenseman with Rögle to get playing time and continue his development into an NHL player.
“It’s gone pretty fast for me, but I am overjoyed and grateful that it was resolved, so I get the opportunity to play ice hockey again. I am happy to come to Rögle and to a good organization where I will receive opportunities to develop and play hockey at a high level,” says Moritz Seider in a statement.
Earlier this week, Rögle loaned out striker Ben Smith from Adler Mannheim as a replacement for the injured Adam Tambellini.
“It will be fun to see Ben again, we played together in Mannheim when we became champions. And then I know coach Cory Murphy who was coach of the German national team during the 2019 World Cup,” says Moritz.
