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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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,488 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.9%
- 3rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.8%
- 4th 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: 67 for, 68 against. Expected: 52.2 and 75.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 357 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
2024-25 with SJS · 994 minutes at five-on-five
- Henry Thrunnow TOR23%
- Mario Ferraro12%
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 | 43.0% | 39.6% | 52.7% |
| Mikael Granlund | 40.5% | 41.1% | 44.9% |
| Esa Lindell | 43.7% | 40.1% | 51.2% |
43.0% together, 39.6% for him apart and 52.7% 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.