Thought this was worthy of its own thread. One of the worst pairings in the league. A whopping 5v5 GF% of 33%.
Etched in stone since day 1 of free agency.
I'm on record stating it was a bad fit from day 1 of training camp.
I'm on record for giving Chiarot a chance and thinking he couldn't be any worse than he was in Montreal. Boy howdy was I wrong...
He seems intent on being the lead defenseman on his pairing and I pointed that out after the first 10 games in the season where they were awful together. The chemistry still hasn't sorted itself out and this pairing can probably be pointed at as THE problem in at least 5 Detroit losses this year.
Fester needs to stop trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and break this pairing up. Walman-Seider, and Chiarot-Oesterle can't possibly be worse.
If you were using the rosy goggles to opine on Mo, then yeah the overall impression would be pretty lousy right now. Seider hasn't played well, as a whole, this year. He's had some really strong assertive games, but he's had more than a few where he seems on autopilot and/or completely out of sync with Chia.I think the rose colored glasses with regard to Seider are starting to fade. Certainly Chiarot hasn't helped, but Mo's decision making has been poor and needs to improve dramatically.
Oh he does. Just very rarely when he should.Chiarot NEVER passes the puck to Seider. It's annoying.
Chia - Mo is the worst defensive pairing in the league. Who cares what anything else sounds like?None of the suggested alternatives sound all that great. Which I think very much plays into why Lalonde hasn't shaken things up.
For now I'm fine with it. I don't want to blame Seider's struggles on everyone else all the time.
Chiarot NEVER passes the puck to Seider. It's annoying.
Not at all. As it is everyone is within 2 minutes in ES TOI. The extras come from special teams. Walman - Seider was out for PP2 last game anyway, so this works. Seider/Chia are PK1 and Maatta/Hronek are PK2. EDIT - forgot Hronek is PP1.I was a proponent of giving it time to see if it would right itself. Well, it got time, and the listing ship has sunk.
I'm with Prashanth, leave the good pairing alone and breakup the bad pairing.
Walman - Seider
Maatta - Hronek
Chiarot - Oesterle
Looks weird, and it's extra challenging to appropriately divvy up the minutes, but at this point you've got virtually nothing to lose.
Fair enough. Knowing that ES minutes are always closer than many think, I didn't realize they were as close as they are on the Wings. All the better. Let's do this.Not at all. As it is everyone is within 2 minutes in ES TOI. The extras come from special teams. Walman - Seider was out for PP2 last game anyway, so this works. Seider/Chia are PK1 and Maatta/Hronek are PK2. EDIT - forgot Hronek is PP1.
Easy
Great, who's in charge of letting the staff know we fixed the pairings?Fair enough. Knowing that ES minutes are always closer than many think, I didn't realize they were as close as they are on the Wings. All the better. Let's do this.
Is it Chiarot's fault that Seider sucks in OT as well? Just asking.
Is it Chiarot's fault that Seider sucks in OT as well? Just asking.
He looked completely disinterested in OT, didn't even bother skating with the puck and just flung it and gave it away both times. Joey got saddled with a -1 because Seider decided he didn't care. This is NOT the same Seider form last year that wanted to win the game by himself in OT.Yea - I don't know how Mo gets a perpetual pass. Somehow his bad passes are Chia's fault? I suppose he made him pinch at the wrong time, blind pass the puck, and chase in the corners too.
He is a kid and still has happy hands. Sure, he'll develop but why not be accountable in the process? Just pair them both with partners who bail each of them out rather than mirror images.
Hire him as a consultant. The team shouldn't hesitate to spend money to get Seider back on track.I'm pretty sure DDK would come back if you asked nicely