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Cody Ceci
Los Angeles Kings Defense
85 games across two clubs and 24 points, and a right shot signed because Vladislav Gavrikov left.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 871 | 52 | 183 | 235 | +2 | 194 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1229 | 4.2 | 20:42 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
4 goals and 20 assists in 85 games for 24 points, plus-6, on 21:12 a night between Dallas and San Jose.
85 games is the highest total in this edition — the product of being traded between clubs with different schedules — and 21 minutes a night across both. 90 shots and 4 goals.
The Finesse Game
Modest. The first pass is safe and slow, and 20 assists at 21 minutes a night is a low return that has been consistent across a twelve-year career.
There is no offensive projection and no power-play case. He moves the puck to a forward and stops.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210, and he defends adequately in front of his own net. He takes contact, blocks shots, and is not a punishing player.
24 penalty minutes over 85 games is disciplined. The durability is exceptional — he has cleared 75 games in nine of twelve seasons.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, six organisations, and a career of being the right-shot defenceman a club signs when it has lost one.
That is exactly the transaction here. At 31 the projection is 20 minutes a night and no disasters, which on a club that concedes fewer chances than anybody is a smaller job than it looks.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
85 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“he defends adequately in front of his own net”
“He takes contact, blocks shots, and is not a punishing player.”
“is not a punishing player”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,488 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.9%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.9%
- 5th 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: 70 for, 69 against. Expected: 52.0 and 75.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 85 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 51st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.74 a game
- Distance
- 2.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.2 mph
- 69th 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 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with SJS · 994 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, 2024-25
- The club
- DAL took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.9% — 9.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 1,488 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Walman | 44.2% | 39.0% | 54.5% |
| Mikael Granlund | 40.3% | 41.2% | 45.1% |
| Esa Lindell | 43.8% | 40.2% | 52.5% |
44.2% together, 39.0% for him apart and 54.5% for Walman apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Walman and did not follow 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
120 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 60 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.