PensBurgh · Oct 17, 2020
Let’s talk about Cody Ceci and the Penguins’ defense
Photo by Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty ImagesSo here we are.
All offseason I kept reading jokes about how the Penguins were going to buy out Jack Johnson only to turn around and sign Cody Ceci, and now it has played out just as the prophecy has foretold.
The Penguins used half of their remaining salary cap space on Saturday to sign Ceci to a one-year, $1.25 million contract that is already wildly unpopular.
Let’s try to break this down in the most sensible, rational, and logical way possible.
This will not be a JJ repeat. Not exactly, anyway
The easy thing to do here is scream about how this is just a repeat of the Johnson signing but that’s really an apples and oranges comparison.