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Cody Ceci
Los Angeles Kings Defense #5
950 games of steady, unloved, entirely necessary defensive minutes.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | OTT | 49 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 3.7 | 17:12 |
| 2014-15 | OTT | 81 | 5 | 16 | 21 | -4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 3.9 | 19:17 |
| 2015-16 | OTT | 75 | 10 | 16 | 26 | +9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 116 | 8.6 | 19:18 |
| 2016-17 | OTT | 79 | 2 | 15 | 17 | -11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 1.4 | 23:12 |
| 2017-18 | OTT | 82 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 143 | 3.5 | 23:20 |
| 2018-19 | OTT | 74 | 7 | 19 | 26 | -22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 132 | 5.3 | 22:34 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 56 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 2.1 | 20:32 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 53 | 4 | 13 | 17 | +18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 6.9 | 18:31 |
| 2021-22 | EDM | 78 | 5 | 23 | 28 | +8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 4.9 | 20:54 |
| 2022-23 | EDM | 80 | 1 | 14 | 15 | +11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 1.1 | 20:08 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 79 | 5 | 20 | 25 | +12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 5.1 | 20:01 |
| 2024-25 | SJS/DAL | 85 | 4 | 20 | 24 | +6 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 4.4 | 21:12 |
| 2025-26 | LAK | 82 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 1.7 | 17:34 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 953 | 53 | 191 | 244 | -8 | 210 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1288 | 4.1 | 20:25 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
1 goal and 9 points in all 82 games, minus-10, on 17 and a half minutes a night. Those are the numbers that get a defenceman criticised, and to a degree the criticism is fair.
The Finesse Game
Very limited offensively. 53 goals in 953 games, no power-play role, and a first pass that is safe rather than good. He will make a clean exit under moderate pressure and struggle under a hard forecheck.
He is a right shot, which is the single most important fact about his career — right-handed defencemen who can play 17 honest minutes are scarce enough that he has spent a decade being paid to do it.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210, and he defends with his body and his reach. He is willing in front of the net and along the wall, and he blocks shots. He is not physically dominant and does not pretend to be.
The Intangibles
He has been an object of criticism in most of the markets he has played in, generally because he has been asked to do more than he can — a third-pairing defenceman playing second-pair minutes looks worse than the same player in the right role.
Here he plays the third pair with a stable partner, which is where he belongs. At 32, that is a sensible place for him to finish.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.20 penalty minutes a game over 82, 6th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
40% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,285 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.7%
- 53rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.2%
- 68th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 51 against. Expected: 48.6 and 49.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 52nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.51 a game
- Distance
- 2.40 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.0 mph
- 79th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
1
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 1 assists, 10 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1265 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.7% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,285 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Dumoulin | 49.2% | 50.5% | 51.3% |
| Quinton Byfield | 46.6% | 51.0% | 55.6% |
| Trevor Moore | 51.6% | 49.1% | 55.2% |
49.2% together, 50.5% for him apart and 51.3% for Dumoulin apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
94 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.