Dimitri Filipovic on Mo Seider’s play this season #NorrisSZN
December 17, 2025
Dimitri Filipovic on Mo Seider’s play this season #NorrisSZN
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I was concerned about his play at the start of the season, but he has really improved over the last month or so. Solid #1 D.
He’s a true number 1 top 10 defenseman. Ed is closely coming up too
And there are still some that doubt he’s elite.
He’ll get Norris votes this year.
The second half of that first bullet point shows just how terrible our bottom pair is. That has to be the priority this deadline/the offseason, especially since we are thin on defense in our system. But on the other hand, Mo is a a friggin’ stud.
Ya last year he was used a lot more defensively than ever,
Obviously helped him with his development.
Our Dcore is gonna be pretty good in 3-4 years eh
I mean, who’s out there that we could trade for to help with this during this season? Rasmus Andersson? Mario Ferraro?
I’m guessing this is good. I have no idea what these stats mean
Give him 10 more points a season, and he’s a Norris finalist if not the winner. People in here get on him for the occasional flub, but he plays half the game in all the important situations. I think fans have just taken for granted to see a player that big skate like that.
not since robinson and savard has there been such a duo as #53 & #77
If Mo isn’t top 5 in the Norris voting this year, they just need to admit it’s an award for the Dman that scores the most points each year
Habs fan but I’ve followed Seider since he was drafted and love his game. I have always said that he seems in particular, made for playoff hockey. Glad to see him doing so well, you guys have a good one there.
If you don’t have a 53 sweater what’re you waiting for ? Join us
I think the main thing is to continue improve the team psyche and defensive structure + game management. NHL/Icehockey in general is so different from other major team sports, you cannot soley depend on one guy to fix all problems, especially not on D. Lidström had to play with Lebda in 2009 playoffs due to Lilja foolishly hurting himself, even if that team had two Selke candidates in Z and D, and Rafalski as well it hurt the team given how Lidström had to compensate for Lebda.
The current Wings, let’s say the last three seasons including this one has had this problem with Seider, where players are constantly out of position and forcing Seider to make up for it, making him more tired and also be half in-between positions.
The emergence of Ed has helped immensively, in that trust has increased, but you still see errors caused by largely trust issues and a bit of inexperience and lack of awareness. Examples of this being both goals NYI scored yesterday. On the first one you can see Ed coasting in and puck watching the two other players taking their man, and Ed not looking around for his man. That is a trust issue, waiting for the puck to squirt free or play safety if the NYI player emerges with the puck; instead of actually recognizing the danger man coming late, who eventually got the pass from Barzal through all three players and a free shot in the slot.
The second goal was very similar, only it was 4 guys, and cross-over skating trajectory doubled up on the D, but here Raymond was late coming back after falling on the ice in the O-zone, not recognizing the danger and the open D-man following the first guy on the outside, giving room in the middle for the open shot.
It is starting to come togheter, and trust will increase, and hopefully the coaching staff help Ed and co to be aware of these type of plays and more alert to it and trust that the other D-men will not miss their assignment.
That will enable Seider and ASP etc to be able to do the things they can in every zone; especially Seider on 5v5 can then trust his teammates to cover him when he goes for a hit or a offensive play, instead he usually let’s Ed float down while covering the point himself.
Expect therefore these numbers to get even better when the team D increases more and more. And in the playoffs I expect Seider to play a more physical game, like Kronwall used to do (turn up the big hit volume in the playoffs), because in a bo7 wearing down your opp physically matters ten times more than over 82 games in the reg season does.
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I was concerned about his play at the start of the season, but he has really improved over the last month or so. Solid #1 D.
He’s a true number 1 top 10 defenseman. Ed is closely coming up too
And there are still some that doubt he’s elite.
He’ll get Norris votes this year.
The second half of that first bullet point shows just how terrible our bottom pair is. That has to be the priority this deadline/the offseason, especially since we are thin on defense in our system. But on the other hand, Mo is a a friggin’ stud.
Ya last year he was used a lot more defensively than ever,
Obviously helped him with his development.
Our Dcore is gonna be pretty good in 3-4 years eh
I mean, who’s out there that we could trade for to help with this during this season? Rasmus Andersson? Mario Ferraro?
I’m guessing this is good. I have no idea what these stats mean
Give him 10 more points a season, and he’s a Norris finalist if not the winner. People in here get on him for the occasional flub, but he plays half the game in all the important situations. I think fans have just taken for granted to see a player that big skate like that.
not since robinson and savard has there been such a duo as #53 & #77
https://preview.redd.it/njb1tot13s7g1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789fb9a5546fa3fc95b1062b0607c3185347aff2
Mo wants a Norris !!!
Lidstromian
Expected by whom
If Mo isn’t top 5 in the Norris voting this year, they just need to admit it’s an award for the Dman that scores the most points each year
Habs fan but I’ve followed Seider since he was drafted and love his game. I have always said that he seems in particular, made for playoff hockey. Glad to see him doing so well, you guys have a good one there.
If you don’t have a 53 sweater what’re you waiting for ? Join us
I think the main thing is to continue improve the team psyche and defensive structure + game management. NHL/Icehockey in general is so different from other major team sports, you cannot soley depend on one guy to fix all problems, especially not on D. Lidström had to play with Lebda in 2009 playoffs due to Lilja foolishly hurting himself, even if that team had two Selke candidates in Z and D, and Rafalski as well it hurt the team given how Lidström had to compensate for Lebda.
The current Wings, let’s say the last three seasons including this one has had this problem with Seider, where players are constantly out of position and forcing Seider to make up for it, making him more tired and also be half in-between positions.
The emergence of Ed has helped immensively, in that trust has increased, but you still see errors caused by largely trust issues and a bit of inexperience and lack of awareness. Examples of this being both goals NYI scored yesterday. On the first one you can see Ed coasting in and puck watching the two other players taking their man, and Ed not looking around for his man. That is a trust issue, waiting for the puck to squirt free or play safety if the NYI player emerges with the puck; instead of actually recognizing the danger man coming late, who eventually got the pass from Barzal through all three players and a free shot in the slot.
The second goal was very similar, only it was 4 guys, and cross-over skating trajectory doubled up on the D, but here Raymond was late coming back after falling on the ice in the O-zone, not recognizing the danger and the open D-man following the first guy on the outside, giving room in the middle for the open shot.
It is starting to come togheter, and trust will increase, and hopefully the coaching staff help Ed and co to be aware of these type of plays and more alert to it and trust that the other D-men will not miss their assignment.
That will enable Seider and ASP etc to be able to do the things they can in every zone; especially Seider on 5v5 can then trust his teammates to cover him when he goes for a hit or a offensive play, instead he usually let’s Ed float down while covering the point himself.
Expect therefore these numbers to get even better when the team D increases more and more. And in the playoffs I expect Seider to play a more physical game, like Kronwall used to do (turn up the big hit volume in the playoffs), because in a bo7 wearing down your opp physically matters ten times more than over 82 games in the reg season does.