Toronto Maple Leafs Roundtable: Most Disappointing Player This Season

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TORONTO, ON – SEPTEMBER 28: Cody Ceci #83 of the Toronto Maple Leafs warms up prior to an NHL pre-season game against the Detroit Red Wings at Scotiabank Arena on September 28, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images) /

Dylan Murphy

There’s no question that Cody Ceci is the worst player on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster.

For the role, he was assigned (stay at home d-man and staple on the penalty kill), he was an unmitigated disaster from day one.

He failed to clear the zone so many times that I legitimately lost count after the first week of the season. He caused turnovers at a rate that would make Jake Gardiner’s head spin.

He routinely “forgot” his net-front assignment and left opposing players wide-open for tap-in goals.

The only positives I can find in his existence on this team is that he blocked some shots by dropping into the butterfly and him being here for a single torturous year meant that Leafs Nation was freed of the burden of Nikita Zaitsev.

Given that the only positive thing I can possibly say regarding Ceci’s performance, he’s the obvious pick for the most disappointing player of the season.

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