Emil Andrae

Last Season

Two goals and 11 assists in 61 games — 13 points, plus-15, at 15:20 a night with 22 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Philadelphia.

The Finesse Game

Sixty unblocked attempts from a median of 44 feet, 62 per cent from beyond forty, two goals. Twenty points in 107 career games.

Eleven assists in 61 games is a modest return for a defenceman drafted on the strength of his puck-moving, and the offence has not translated yet.

The first pass is quick and the escapes under forecheck are the best part of the game.

The Physical Game

Five foot nine and 189 pounds — among the smallest defencemen in this edition. Twenty-two penalty minutes.

He cannot defend a net front and is moved wherever a heavy forward decides. The skating is genuinely good and it is the only thing standing between him and the American League.

The Intangibles

Fifty point nine per cent of the expected goals, 61st percentile, and 49.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 51st, across 893 minutes in Philadelphia, with the goals 35-33 in his favour.

Above water in a sheltered role on a club that finished third in the league at preventing chances, which is the caveat.

He is 24, a fifty-fourth overall pick, and joins a Toronto blue line where a 61st percentile would have been the best figure by ten points. That is either an upgrade or a warning, and this section has not been able to tell the difference all the way through.