(Photo: Chris duMond, Detroit News)
Red Wings top prospect Moritz Seider is staying home in Germany for the short term.
With Detroit out of the playoffs for the fourth straight year and American Hockey League players like Seider sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman loaned the 19-year-old German defenseman to the Mannheim Eagles in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), Germany's top-tier men's league.
"Steve and I discussed a few times that this would be good for Mo," said Seider's agent Claude Lemieux, the four-time Stanley Cup champion and longtime nemesis who was at the center of the 1997 Red Wings-Avalanche brawl at Joe Louis Arena which led to Detroit's first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years.