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Originally Posted by StrykerSteve
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Bobby Sanguinetti is a weird one. He's only had one lockout-shortened season as a regular at the NHL level with the Canes, and he failed to put up points, but he generated shots at a rate of... well...
http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/rati...0&sortdir=DESC
Yeah so that's #1 in the NHL, which is pretty weird. Also 7th in the NHL in Corsi that year at over 57%. None of which translated into scoring because he was 8th last in the league in PDO. Had he not been incredibly unlucky, I suspect he would have had much the same hype as Wiercioch did in Ottawa.
I don't really know what to read into all of that (Wiercioch hasn't exactly lived up to his hype since) but everything would appear to indicate that he is at least an NHL caliber depth defenseman provided that you're not married to using your 5/6/7 d-man slots on facepunchers.