Just Linda
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Confirmed Signing with Link: [PIT] Cody Ceci signs with the Penguins (1 year, $1.25M)
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A1LeafNation
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He's a good #6.
He was playing top pair in TO for some reason.
He was playing top pair in TO for some reason.
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and just when Penguins fans spent all week telling us how much trouble we were in with JJ. How the turntables.
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As a rotating #6 with Ruhwedel I don't hate it, I just had no interest seeing Ruhwedel play 82 games plus playoffs, so there's that, also he's cheap and on a one year deal so whatevs.
He was pretty much the only option to play with Rielly. Both Muzzin and Rielly were uncomfortable playing the right side, Barrie had a disaster of a season no matter who he was playing with and Holl never really meshed with Barrie but had amazing chemistry with Muzzin....the problem with Ceci of course is that he was useless past the redline and killed plays way too often. That doesnt change the fact that when it comes to goals against, Ceci has amazing defensive REL numbers in the league 5v5 and was on one of the top PK pairings in the league with Muzzin. Solid signing at that caphit for the Pens as long as they play him defensively.
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He's is most definitely not a great number six D man nor is he remotely close to being a solid number five.
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BinCookin
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To be fair your team is in win now mode. Who needs 25th OA picks anyway, you likely are getting a better player each time in exchange for the pick.
We already had a couple of those already signed in Ruh and Riikola... This seems redundant at best...Ceci is going to play pike 15-17 minutes a night for the Penguins, but you already have Penguins fans running for the Fort Pitt Bridge to jump off of it
One of the whiniest fanbases in hockey. Oh no, the Penguins signed a #6 defenseman for a #6 defenseman price, and will use him like a #6 defenseman? Guess that means all improvements they made this off-season are thrown out the window.
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Mickey Marner
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I agree to an extent. Those picks ended up being Barzal, Steel, Kostin, K'andre Miller, Amirov, TBD. Would've been nice to keep that Barzal pick at least.
Diamonddog01
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Well... JR is senile, but context. He also won two Cups in those six years. Your GM, and your fanbase would trade 12 first round picks for that.
BinCookin
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Always an unfair analysis I suppose. Really depends on who YOUR team was going to take at the time. So I don't look at it that way. Who are the 6 players you got for those 1st picks though?? (Do any of those guys have a cup ring??!!)
Also in regards to this thread.
JJ, Ceci, and players like him who do defence first defensemen, are the players fans hate the most, because everyone likes counting points. No one really knows how to count defensive skill.
Sometimes these guys get overpaid, and thus the hate grows.
Mark Stuart in Detroit was a Def. Defenceman and he was great for us. BUT we were a winning team.
So Defensive D men usually look good when they are on good teams.
And when they are on teams like Toronto (all offence) and Ottawa (Just bad) and Pittsburgh (all offence)... Well they tend to look worse.
I kinda feel the hate on this guy is overblown. Obviously I think paying any defensive D man 3-4-5M is too much. But JJ and Ceci at just over 1M. I think these guys will do just fine.
IMO there is also something to be said for a "Defensive D man built like Bouwmeester" is better in todays game than a D man like Zadorov?? Kinda feels like Ceci and JJ are more like Zadorov versions just without such awesome hits (Big, strong D men vs good skating ones)
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news...
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qqaz
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I think you misunderstood.
I never pointed blame. It was a great trade for Toronto. But the fact is nothing is worse for someone's perceived worth than to be overpaid while playing for the Leafs.
People think "Ceci sucks" because the Toronto fanbase and media will never get off an overpaid player.
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I probably didn't miss this when it happened, but my mind just doesn't register it given how ludicrous it is.
