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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Engelland's passing ability - yep, it isn't anywhere near Brodie, Hamilton and Giordano, but next game count the number of times he doesn't get the puck out. He seems really decent at getting the puck out of the zone and onto someone's stick (or close by anyways). I think he makes really good decisions with the puck, and doesn't cough it up or simply throw it away often at all. I didn't notice this myself until I started actively counting last season during a stretch of games, and found it quite surprising.
With that being said, I don't mean he makes awesome high-end blue-line to blue-line tape to tape passes. Simply that he gets it out without giving it away (as in an icing, or simply dumped-in off the boards into the neutral zone to relieve pressure) or coughing it up regularly.
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I like Engelland a lot, but he regularly passes the puck right into traffic along the boards in an attempt to do a dump out. He and whoever his partner of the night is regularly get trapped. His transition passes might just be the worst on the team. It's probably his worst trait (I hate his washerwoman move that he uses a lot on the pk, but it seems to work OK).