Detroit Red Wings' Moritz Seider after contract: 'Really excited and ready to get going'

Moritz Seider looked and sounded happy to be back in the Detroit Red Wings' fold after a contract stalemate kept him from the Traverse City segment of training camp.

"It was weird seeing the guys up there, but overall I’m really excited and ready to get going," Seider said Tuesday after practice at Little Caesars Arena. "It’s a different situation than the last couple years, but overall I’m just happy right now. It’s in the past and now we can be excited for preseason and then get going into the regular season."

Seider, 23, returned to the Wings a rich man, having signed a seven-year, $59.85 million deal Sept. 19, the opening day of camp.

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Seider described the experience as, "New. Interesting. Those are two words. It’s a really cool situation to be in, having a long-term contract. I think that I’m really proud of that organization, that I can do it with them. I’m really happy that we’re done and being back with the boys, there was a lot of smiling today."

Seider was in his native Germany when the contract was signed, and managed to sneak in a celebration before departing Sept. 21 for Detroit.

"We had a nice little dinner with my parents, my agent and his family," he said.

He called picking up the check, "the easiest thing to do."

"That was about it. Went to practice the next day. The Mannheim boys had some nice words, too, and then I was really excited packing everything up really fast and getting on the next plane. I’m very excited. I think there will be some fun times ahead, life changing moments, and this will stick with you for lifetime."

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