The Detroit Red Wings have their final RFA under contract, Moritz Seider.
The team announced it re-signed defenseman Seider to a seven-year contract worth $8.55 million per season.
Seider now has the second-highest cap hit on the Red Wings behind captain Dylan Larkin’s $8.7 million.
The 23-year-old came off his entry-level deal last season. He recorded nine goals and 33 assists for 42 points in 82 games while averaging 22:22 of ice time.
Seider hasn’t missed a game of action since entering the NHL in the 2021-22 season. While he recorded 50 points in 82 games in his rookie year, earning him the Calder Trophy, Seider had 42 points in each of the last two campaigns.
On Wednesday, TheHockeyNews.com’s Eric Cruikshank compared Seider with other younger NHL defenseman who signed long-term contracts coming off their entry-level deals.
Buffalo Sabres D-man Owen Power signed a seven-year contract extension that kicks in this season and is worth $8.35 million per year. The first-overall pick in 2021 had 35 points in 79 games in 2022-23 and 33 points in 76 games in his sophomore campaign while averaging 22:55 of ice time. Seider, a sixth-overall pick in 2019, will now carry a cap hit worth $200,000 more than Power per year.
Ottawa Senators blueliner Jake Sanderson also has a new contract extension beginning this year, although he agreed to an eight-year contract worth $8.05 million annually. After the Senators drafted Sanderson fifth overall in 2020, he had 32 points in 77 games in his rookie year and 38 points in 79 games last season.
Over in Minnesota, 22-year-old Brock Faber agreed to an eight-year contract extension that kicks in next season. Faber, a second-round pick by the Los Angeles Kings in 2020, had 39 assists and 47 points in 82 games for the Wild last season. He also averaged 24:58 of ice time, the sixth-highest average in the NHL last year, after captain Jared Spurgeon missed most of the season with hip and back injuries.
Faber’s cap hit comes closest to Seider’s at $8.5 million. But in all three cases, Seider produced more than each player in every comparable campaign. He was also the only NHL player to record at least 200 hits and 200 blocks last season.
The Red Wings are almost capped out after getting RFAs Seider, Lucas Raymond, and Jonatan Berggren under contract as NHL training camps begin. They have $198,194 in cap space, according to PuckPedia.
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