Cody Ceci Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Andrei Kuzmenko is the partner who brings the best out of him

Ceci is at his best beside Kuzmenko: 67.4% of the expected goals together against 52.0% apart.

185 minutes together, 1,059 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Kevin Fiala

The pairing with Fiala is the one that costs him: 46.5% of the expected goals together, 55.9% apart.

224 minutes together, 1,020 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Laughton is a different player beside him: 58.7% of the expected goals with Ceci, 28.7% without him.

127 minutes together, 343 minutes apart for Laughton

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Fiala does better away from him: 56.1% of the expected goals apart against 46.5% together.

224 minutes together, 587 minutes apart

He and Alex Turcotte are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Ceci and Turcotte: 7.34 expected goals an hour.

213 minutes together at 5v5

Brian Dumoulin is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Dumoulin than anyone: 769 minutes, worth 53.4% of the expected goals.

21 goals for, 32 against together

The goals go his team's way when Adrian Kempe is out there with him

With Kempe on the ice too, the Kings have outscored opponents 13 to 6 at 5v5.

68.4% goal share over 268 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Andrei Kuzmenko are out together

He gives up least beside Kuzmenko: 2.86 expected goals against an hour.

185 minutes together at 5v5

Trevor Moore is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Moore: 7.34 expected goals against an hour.

52 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Ceci with Armia, Dumoulin, Laughton and Wright, 51 minutes at 5v5.

55.3% of the expected goals, 2 goals for and 1 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Byfield, Edmundson and Laferriere: 1 goal against in 14 minutes.

4.17 against an hour, 2.3 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Dumoulin, Fiala, Kuzmenko and Turcotte: 77.5% of the expected goals over 33 minutes.

0 goals for, 1 against, 61.5% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Ceci has played 51 different five-man units at 5v5, 5 of them for real minutes.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

19 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Ceci this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Most of his assists are second touches, not the key pass

12.5% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

1 primary of 8 assists

Alex Laferriere is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Alex Laferriere's goals, 25.0% of his own assists.

0 primary, 2 secondary

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 41.9% of the goals off 54.2% of the expected goals.

12.3 points of goal share below expectation

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Kings are down 31 goals with Ceci on the ice.

44 for, 75 against, 226th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 97.7, running cold and likely to correct.

7.1% shooting and 90.7% goaltending behind him, 197th of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Kings create 4.94 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Ceci on.

34th of 246 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Kings score 41.9% of the 5v5 goals with Ceci out there.

36 for, 50 against, 206th of 246 defencemen

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Kings generate 54.2% of the expected goals with Ceci on the ice.

102.5 xGF to 86.8 xGA over 1,244 minutes, 37th of 246 defencemen

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 8.83 expected goals an hour.

21 goals against in 160 minutes, 42nd of 156 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Ceci's line owns 51.4% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,234 for, 1,165 against, 73rd of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.19 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

83rd of 246 defencemen

Shots even out when he is on the ice

48.7% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Ceci is on.

509 for, 536 against, 139th of 246 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 56.19 shot attempts an hour with Ceci on the ice at 5v5.

109th of 246 defencemen

He takes an ordinary share of the penalty killing

He draws 2:08 of penalty kill time a game, 74th among defencemen.

11.1% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Ceci plays 17:33 a night, 160th among defencemen.

1,440 minutes across 82 games

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.42 shots on goal an hour.

865th in the league

He chips in points even when his team is a man down

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

111th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.71 shots an hour of ice time.

144th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -10 on the season.

785th in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.54 checks an hour.

747th in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Ceci produces 0.38 points an hour of ice time.

822nd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

13 takeaways against 61 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.21 takeaways per giveaway

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.54 times an hour.

725th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.33 assists an hour of ice time.

768th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.04 goals an hour of ice time.

744th in the league

He stays out of the box, which his coach can rely on

He takes 0.67 penalty minutes an hour.

743rd most penalty minutes an hour

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.54 times an hour.

623rd most giveaways an hour

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

46.8% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

87 of 186 attempts, 229th of 241 defencemen

He gets his chances from the dirty areas, not the perimeter

30.1% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

56 attempts from inside the home plate, 21st of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

30.1% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

56 of 186 attempts, 22nd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

26.3% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

49 attempts, 0 goals

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

59.6% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

59 of 99 unblocked, 181st of 241 defencemen

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 7.75 attempts an hour of ice time.

186 attempts in 1,440 minutes, 178th of 245 defencemen

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

67.7% of his attempts come from the right side.

13 left, 47 middle, 126 right

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 40.9 feet.

186 located attempts, 97th of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

46.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

87 long-range attempts, 110th of 241 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Ceci has taken 186 shot attempts this season.

58 on goal, 40 missed, 87 blocked, 121st of 241 defencemen

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Adin Hill: 6 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Jacob Melanson has hit him 6 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 56 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

He is not converting the chances he gets

Ceci has 1 goals off 6.4 expected: 5.4 short of what the chances say.

224th of 241 defencemen

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 1.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

1 goals on 59 shots, 206th of 241 defencemen

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 2.7% of them go in.

1 goals on 37 attempts

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