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36

Emil Andrae

Toronto Maple Leafs Defense

5-9, plus 15, and the 61st percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24PHI4000-100000—13:00
2024-25PHI42167-516000521.917:21
2025-26PHI6121113+1522000365.615:20
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—10731720+938000883.416:02

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

2 goals and 11 assists in 61 games — 13 points, plus-15, at 15:20 a night with 22 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Philadelphia.

The Finesse Game

60 unblocked attempts from a median of 44 feet, 62 per cent from beyond 40, 2 goals. 20 points in 107 career games.

11 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

5-9 and 189 pounds — among the smallest defencemen in this edition. 22 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

52.3 per cent of the expected goals, 72nd percentile, and 49.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 55th, across 893 minutes in Philadelphia, with the goals 36-22 in his favour.

Above water in a sheltered role on a club that finished 3rd in the league at preventing chances, which is the caveat.

He is 24, a 54th overall pick, and joins a Toronto blue line where a 61st percentile would have been the best figure by 10 points. That is either an upgrade or a warning, and this section has not been able to tell the difference all the way through.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 893 minutes

Expected goals
52.3%
73rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.8%
55th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 22 against. Expected: 35.7 and 32.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
27th
Numbers
73rd

The numbers rank him 46 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 61 games

Top speed
21.3 mph
38th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.31 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.23 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
88.1 mph
37th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 88.9

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 13 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with PHI · 893 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club
PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.3% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second pair, 893 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jamie Drysdale49.2%55.0%51.6%
Trevor Zegras51.5%52.7%54.5%
Matvei Michkov56.7%50.4%50.1%

49.2% together, 55.0% for him apart and 51.6% for Drysdale apart. He was better away from Drysdale, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Drysdale.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

60 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 15% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.