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Emil Andrae
Philadelphia Flyers Defense
Five-foot-nine, and the 92nd percentile of chances across 42 games on the third pair.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | PHI | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 13:00 |
| 2024-25 | PHI | 42 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 1.9 | 17:21 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 46 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 1.9 | 16:58 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
1 goal and 6 assists in 42 games — 7 points at 17:21 a night, minus-5, with 16 penalty minutes.
55.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 92nd percentile, across 617 minutes — the second-best mark on the roster behind Cam York. His ice went 23-26 against an expectation of 26.74-21.44, which is another five goals conceded above expectation on a pairing that was winning the play.
The Finesse Game
52 attempts in 42 games at a median of 52 feet with 71 per cent from beyond 40, and 1 goal. The shot does not exist yet at this level.
The skating and the puck movement are why he is here. He escapes pressure by turning away from it, he makes the first pass early, and he is comfortable carrying it through the neutral zone — which on this blue line is a scarce thing below the top pair.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 189 and among the smallest defencemen in the league. He is not going to clear a crease and he is not going to out-muscle a forward on the wall.
16 penalty minutes in 42 games. He defends by angling and by stick position and he is quick enough to make that work at third-pairing minutes; at twenty minutes a night against a first line it has not been tested.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2020 out of Sweden, where he captained the national junior side, and 46 NHL games in.
He is 23. The chance share across two partial seasons is genuinely good and the sample is genuinely small, and the club has to decide this year whether the size is a ceiling or an irrelevance.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He escapes pressure by turning away from it, he makes the first pass early, and he is comfortable carrying it through the neutral zone — which on this blue line is a scarce thing below the top pair.”
“He is not going to clear a crease and he is not going to out-muscle a forward on the wall.”
“He defends by angling and by stick position and he is quick enough to make that work at third-pairing minutes; at twenty minutes a night against a first line it has not been tested.”
“He is not going to clear a crease and he is not going to out-muscle a forward on the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 617 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.5%
- 92nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 75th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 26 against. Expected: 26.7 and 21.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 56 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2024-25 · 42 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 47th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.21 a game
- Distance
- 2.59 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.3 mph
- 65th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 617 minutes at five-on-five
- Egor Zamula29%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.5% — 3.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 617 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Konecny | 53.1% | 56.7% | 49.3% |
| Sean Couturier | 58.2% | 54.1% | 50.8% |
| Egor Zamula | 47.5% | 58.6% | 55.8% |
53.1% together, 56.7% for him apart and 49.3% for Konecny apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Konecny behind.
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
75 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.