Value of: Cody Ceci

[IIxGURUxII]

Ceci and a 2nd to SJ

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Teams will be lining up for his services. He was that good during this playoffs.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Teams will be lining up for his services. He was that good during this playoffs.

you're crowing a lot today for a fan of a shit team heading into a rebuild

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

IMO Ceci is an acceptable 4/5 D on a bad team, he does enough right that he will help bad teams make the playoffs at a reasonable cap-hit, but the playoffs have shown he gets badly exposed when facing high quality forechecks, if you are facing a top 5 forecheck in the league on a nightly basis he won't handle that well.

Any bubble playoff team that has a hole at RHD and needs either a temporary fix or someone to contest a young player who is potentially not quite ready for a bigger role, he's honestly a pretty decent option, but he doesn't belong on any serious cup contender.

 

[belair]

Ceci is just there. He's a serviceable RD who can play an elevated role with primary PK. But preferably he's on your bottom pairing with a rookie D whose strength is transition.

 

[Mr Kot]

I will send you my biggest pile of poo, that's the best I can offer.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Calling Cody Ceci a puck moving defenceman is... sure something.

He's not horrible, but there's a reason he got bumped out of the top 4 when the level of competition escalated. He can't play that spot on a Cup threat team.

Bumped out of the top 4? He had the 3rd most minutes amongst Oilers defensemen in games 6 and 7 of the SCF. 3 minutes more than Nurse for game 7. He was comfortably in 3rd over the course of the playoffs.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

Apparently, the Oilers' PK for the playoffs only allowed four goals on 70 attempts. They also scored three shorthanded goals.

Ceci was the player used most on the PK for the Oilers in the playoffs.

A good PKer has value.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Ceci for Joseph.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Bumped out of the top 4? He had the 3rd most minutes amongst Oilers defensemen in games 6 and 7 of the SCF. 3 minutes more than Nurse for game 7. He was comfortably in 3rd over the course of the playoffs.

Broberg was steadily chewing into his minutes. Ceci only played 6 seconds more per game 5v5 than Broberg did in the final. Unfortunately, Ceci wasn’t alone in having a poor playoffs. Nurse was arguably even worse.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Broberg was steadily chewing into his minutes. Ceci only played 6 seconds more per game 5v5 than Broberg did in the final. Unfortunately, Ceci wasn’t alone in having a poor playoffs. Nurse was arguably even worse.

No argument. Just pushing back on the claim that he was bumped out of the top 4, which was not the case.

Side note - Broberg was phenomenal. If he can take another step forward next year, it solves a huge problem.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

No argument. Just pushing back on the claim that he was bumped out of the top 4, which was not the case.

Side note - Broberg was phenomenal. If he can take another step forward next year, it solves a huge problem.

I don’t think it was that ridiculous a claim considering we saw Ceci healthied for the first time as an Oiler.

Broberg looked good at times, struggled at times. It says a lot to me that they trusted him more on his off side than asking Nurse to do it though.

 

[FlameChampion]

Hes not great but honestly he has gotten paired with Nurse a lot has played against higher competition than what he is paid.

A lot of RD get paid. You can do a lot worse than Ceci at 3.25m for 1 year on a third pairing.

 

[DJN21]

A big mac with fries would be to much. So just the sandwich...