Igor Ozhiganov
Ozhiganov is a 25-year-old Russian, right-shooting defender, who has spent a lot of time not playing for CSKA in the KHL. The team is a top-ranked team and they went all the way to the final this year, losing to Ak Bars Kazan.
Ozhiganov has been a surplus player all season, and he?s been used primarily as a fourth-unit defender, playing defensive minutes or running out the clock in blowouts. He saw action mostly against lesser teams, and when the playoffs game, he saw mostly the view from up in the stands.
You will hear that CSKA played former Leafs defender Alexei Marchenko ahead of him, and that?s true, but not the whole story.
https://twitter.com/IgorEronko/status/994690709885194242
He does not seem to be a player who produces personal offence. How he plays defensively is difficult to assess from afar. The KHL does not breakdown time on ice by game state, and there is no shot data for that league. All that can be used to assess Ozhiganov?s play is his personal shot rate, his plus/minus or his points.
By those measures... well, he has a great plus/minus considering his usage. We?ll know when training camp comes, what we have here.