He a cotton ball. Who cares what he is later. He’s soft as butter. You are seeing all these floaters gotten rid of by management. I don’t have to work for them. They seem to be figuring it out fine for themselves. Maybe you’ll catch on one day too.
So much for my attempt at friendly "yes and". Now that I think about it, Engvall is pretty good. He might be alright for a stretch as the 3rd line center if injuries strike. That smooth effortless skating and long reach is useful on PK when he's in the lineup. I'm really liking the idea of seeing in the lineup. Definitely could end up pushing Spezza to the sidelines eventually. He could very well outproduce both Spezza and Simmonds this upcoming season. The dude's got an enviable head of hair and great posture. I'm really starting to feel good about number 47 becoming a regular in the 2020-21 season.
Yeah sure whatever you say. He’s worse than useless. 29 of 52 games including 3of4 playoff games had zero hits. Guys a clown
Yes, except Engvall did this to an extreme. He would do this in terrible situations where opposing players were in his teams zone still. There is a system, but you have to be smart in that system. And I assure you he turned it over many times if YOU actually watched any games. I'm not going to go find a clip by watching for it. You can focus on it next time you see him play.
This is mostly a Euro thing really. Not just on Engval. Da game has gotten much softer in case you haven't noticed. It may get to point where da fan base changes significantly. Da good ole days of TO/farm boys running rough over everyone else is long gone. It is largely skills based today. Da days of forwards skating down boards and D pounding them to concussion or until they can't go anymore are over. Da days of taking your stick and wrecking a guy so he can't move in front of net are over. Da days of wrapping a guys head into glass while tying him up are over. That stuff used to be allowed. No penalty unless you really hurt a guy bad. Even da easy elbow to da nose is a penalty today. You gotta get out POST covid and watch da kids play now it is so much faster and there is no interference on da fast guy anymore. Da days of da skilled Compuware team coming into town and they had given up by end of 1st because we abused them real bad are over. Now they come up here and we get killed on scoreboard. It has changed and changed massively over past 15 years.
Is this serious?
I’m talking throwing a hit. You know the reason management didn’t take Gauthier back. Physical play I’m talking has nothing to do with illegal headshots or laying the lumber on. A hard team to play is one that pounds you within the rules. Thats all i want. I don’t want puff pastries playing for us. Its gotten us 4 straight first round exits
He doesn’t help the team any more than a minimum salary player. Useless increase of cap hit. He makes $350,000 more than Vesey who he is not better than. Robertson is better and $430,000 cheaper. Then it’s $700,000 players he is competing with beyond them. He doesn’t improve our team cap wise or quality wise. Its pretty clear. $1,250,000 for defensive play is to much. He’s a mistake
Your chart has 4 players on it the Leafs deemed expendable. A couple skill guys, Kappy and Johnsson were taking little or no cap back as Anderson is still not signed and Hallander is likely playing in Sweden a couple years. Both are solid Defensive players with grit as the return.They are the types being management’s preference in return. I think Engvall is now a cap casualty regardless of how you want to frame it. I live in the now. He is less important cap wise than it was to removed the medium cap guys $6,400,000. He is still not fitting in the cap and likely not fitting in to the style ofplay bottom six either.
Ya sorry. I realized that after reading your other posts about him.
