The sun was shining and so was Moritz as the Red Wings 21-year-old defenseman was named the 2021-22 Calder Trophy winner on Tuesday night. The big German was the first Red Wings player to win the Calder in 47 years and the first Red Wings skater to win it since Jim McFadden in 1947-48. It’s something that so many legends in the Winged Wheel failed to do, including Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, and Niklas Lidstrom, who all were runner-ups in their respective rookie seasons.
So if Seider is doing something that all of these legends failed to do, the question then becomes, how does he build on that?