I had hoped to see Stecher in for Ceci but gave up when there was no effort by the coach to change it up. Other than fiddling with pairing partners, Knoblauch doesn’t seem interested in changing personnel. This in spite of seeing Stecher perform well in the little time given. Must be some back story here that we’re not aware of (lingering injury? zodiac sign? ???).
As an extreme Ceci hater, he's been playing better since the pairing tweaks.
That being said, the answer of why his spot in the lineup is never in doubt is quite clear; team nepotism and favoritism. Despite Ceci being a large man, he loses every puck battle, has a terrible stick, zero cap control, but is still revered by the coaching staff/management over stecher because size.
Same with VD, who's actually incredibly weak for a man his size and isn't really punishing.
All that aside, we've been playing lights out defensively for 4 straight games (outside of some stupid brain farts at the beginning of each game).
