Well you’re using total minutes so we should circle back around to him averaging just under 23 minutes a game and not missing a single one since hitting the league. So yeah that helps, how many guys do that in the league?
I don’t really need to defend Seider to other fanbases, but realize some people clearly haven’t watched much of him. Usually something overused on a board where a lot of us follow hockey religiously. But, not sure how anyone could think he isn’t a very good player. Seider has broken a few of Lidstrom’s records in his early tenure. He is the best dman we have had since and I have seen every single game he has played for 3 years. If people want to believe he is bad because of some fancy stats or throw out bad comparisons like you did here go for it. More importantly Seider is better in his own end than he is in the offensive zone. So he does the first objective of his job exceptionally well.
Seider started his career as a rookie playing very tough minutes, but excelling in them.
The minutes became tougher, (among the hardest in the league), and his results declined in year two.
Now, he's playing the hardest minutes in hockey by far and honestly struggling with them.
My view is that, if you take some of the workload off of seider, his results will improve accross the board back to what he was in year 1 or even beyond that. Still give him hard minutes, but not to the extent he is playing now.
The problem is Yzerman has done a pretty atrocious job filling out the dcore around Seider. holl, petry, maataa, chiarot, ghost have been unable to take away the tough minutes from seider, and haven't exactly taken advantage of the easier minutes they play either.