The Athletic’s Max Bultman published a lengthy article today, discussing Moritz Seider’s time spent with Rogle BK of the SHL this past season:
Cam Abbott was squeezing in a workout one day last October when a young man arrived from the airport to meet him in the Rögle BK gym.
Abbott, the team’s head coach in the Swedish Hockey League, had a bit of background on this newly arrived player thanks to a connection on the team’s coaching staff: Rögle’s assistant coach at the time, Cory Murphy, had worked with Moritz Seider on the German national team in 2019, so Abbott knew he could expect a respectful kid and “one heck of a hockey player” who had been well-liked at his past stops.
But as Abbott and the 19-year-old defenseman talked, Seider started asking about something he had noticed in the gym: a leaderboard for one of the team’s internal challenges on the assault bike — a stationary air bike that adds resistance the harder the user pedals.
Seider’s interest was piqued.
“He jumped on the assault bike,” Abbott said, “and put himself in first place there on the board.”
Continued (paywall)
