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Cody Ceci
San Jose Sharks Defense
Fourteen penalty minutes in 79 games at twenty minutes a night, and one power-play goal in 786 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 786 | 48 | 163 | 211 | -4 | 170 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1139 | 4.2 | 20:38 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
79 games with Edmonton, 5 goals and 20 assists for 25 points, none on the power play, 14 penalty minutes, 20:01 a night and plus-12. He took 52.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,354 minutes, the 72nd percentile, and his ice went 59-55 against an expectation of 66.16-61.04.
Seven goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and six goals of goaltending above them. The plus-12 is the largest positive figure anybody arriving in San Jose carries with them.
The Finesse Game
125 attempts at a median of 51 feet with 68 per cent of them from beyond forty and 10 per cent from inside twenty, 93 of those on goal, converted at 5.2 per cent against a career 4.21 across 1,139 shots.
One power-play goal in 786 career games. He is not on a unit and has not been for a decade; 163 career assists across eleven seasons is the outlet pass and the point shot that gets tipped, and nothing beyond that.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 210 and took 14 penalty minutes in 79 games.
170 career penalty minutes in 786 games is a very low total for a defenceman who has played twenty minutes a night for a decade. He defends by position and stick rather than by contact, which is why the minutes stay high and the penalties stay down.
The Intangibles
Fifteenth overall in 2012 by Ottawa, eleven seasons, and San Jose will be his fifth organisation.
A career minus-4 across 786 games and five clubs. He has been a second-pairing defenceman on good clubs and bad ones and the number at the end has always come out close to zero, which on this roster is a considerable recommendation.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,354 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52%
- 68th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 63rd 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: 59 for, 55 against. Expected: 66.2 and 61.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 29 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with EDM · 1354 minutes at five-on-five
- Brett Kulak16%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- EDM took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.0% — 4.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,354 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnell Nurse | 52.2% | 51.5% | 57.7% |
| Leon Draisaitl | 52.2% | 51.9% | 62.7% |
| Evander Kane | 47.2% | 54.7% | 54.8% |
52.2% together, 51.5% for him apart and 57.7% for Nurse apart. Nurse was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
125 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.