Who was he playing with last year...I thought I read Chabot, no?
Herman answered this already for this past season but I was curious to see who his primary partners were in other seasons.
18/19 Maxime Lajoie
17/18 Dion Phaneuf
16/17 Dion Phaneuf
15/16 Patrick Wiercioch
14/15 Jared Cowen
13/14 Chris Phillips
Like... wow. Phillips, Cowen, and Wiercioch were all out of the NHL 1-2 years after those seasons. We're all well aware of how Phaneuf's career has been the past few years. I'm 80% sure Lajoie isn't real. And in the 2nd half of his career he's been getting the toughest minutes on the sens.
I'm not trying to argue that Ceci is actually an effective defenceman or that he's not drastically overpaid. But I'm still hearing people say that he might be a downgrade from Zaitsev. Zaitsev's played with Morgan Rielly and Jake Gardiner his entire career and still sucked. If you combined all 5 of those defencemen together Voltron-style they still probably wouldn't come close to one of those two.