it's percentage of goals for. not a gf/ga ratio. which is also pointless because different players play different roles. Engelland gets next to no offensive zone starts, on a team as terrible at faceoffs as us that is a death sentence. It's natural for a defense only player to be scored on more, especially on the road where they would get the worst matchups.
Everytime you say something like "Engelland is a boat anchor", it makes me value your opinion even less because it is not even close to being true.
I don't expect you to value my opinion much, given how fundamentally we disagree on almost everything.
Since you don't go for the statistical arguments, the only way we could ever possibly hope to hash this out is by watching a shift-by-shift video of Engelland and arguing about it (if one existed, I would actually be willing to do that). But we obviously see a different player at the center of it; I see a low mobility, positionally questionable dude with zero puck skills, and you see a large defensive specialist who clears the crease.
I will say, I don't disagree that he clears the crease or that he's a rough guy to play against. I just don't think those aspects of his game are close to enough to make up for his deficiencies everywhere else. His defense in transition is poor, his abilities in the offensive zone are non-existent, he can't make a breakout pass to save his life, and his agility isn't good enough for him to cover the ice he needs to in many cases.
