Bleacher Report’s Sara Civian discusses the ways in which the caliber of NHL defensemen have changed and grown since Zdeno Chara broke into the league, and one of the examples she gives as a representative of the defensive evolution is Moritz Seider:
My sneaky favorite
Mortiz Seider: “Sneaky” might be a stretch considering Seider won the 2022 Calder Trophy, but I’m not sure many of us outside of Detroit have truly grasped how good and fun this kid is going to be.
His stats are good—he led a stacked rookie class in assists (43) and power play points (21), and he led rookie defensemen in points (50) and game-winning goals (four) in 82 games. But I’d rather talk about all that combined with the fact that the 6-foot-4 21-year-old also led the struggling Red Wings in average time on ice (23:02) and blocked shots (161), while bringing the physicality every night.
Listen, I am totally here for the short king, skill-based NHL defenseman era. But did we ever consider maybe we can have it all?
Continued; why can’t we have it all, indeed!
