Washington Capitals: 3 trade proposals for John Carlson

John Carlson for Cody Ceci

Cody Ceci is 28 years old and is on the Edmonton Oilers. He had five goals and 23 assists for 28 points in the regular season including a plus minus of plus eight and just 14 penalty minutes while averaging 20:54 minutes of ice time. He also had 121 blocks, 117 hits, 15 takeaways and 39 giveaways.

In the playoffs so far as I’m writing this, he has one goal and five assists in 10 games as the Oilers are in a second round battle with the Calgary Flames. Game 4 is tonight in Edmonton as of this writing.

Ceci has just a cap hit of $3.25 million and is a right handed defenseman. A clean swap if the Oilers are willing to take on Carlson’s massive contract.

He also has good advanced stats. Ceci has a Corsi For percentage of 51.19 percent, an Expected Goals For percentage of 52.05 percent and a High Danger Chances For percentage of 53.82, per Natural Stat Trick.

So far in the playoffs they’ve dipped but they still have the potential to go up the further the Oilers go. He’s got a playoff Corsi For percentage of 49.05 percent, a 49.63 Expected Goals For percentage, and a 51.14 percent High Danger Chances For percentage.

Those are my three options if I were to trade John Carlson.