Detroit — There was little doubt how good Moritz Seider was in his rookie NHL season, but that became perfectly clear Tuesday at the NHL Awards Show.
Seider, the Red Wings' outstanding first-year defenseman, won the NHL's Calder Trophy, awarded “to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition" by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.
Anaheim's Trevor Zegras and Toronto's Michael Bunting were the other finalists.
Seider ran away with the vote, earning 170 first-place votes among the 195 ballots cast for 1,853 voting points. Zegras received 15 first-place votes and was the second choice on 100 others for 1,191 points, followed by Bunting, who had 877 points (seven first-place selections).