The Maple Leafs signed defenseman Emil Andrae to a two-year contract worth $1.55 million per season on Thursday, avoiding arbitration with the restricted free agent they acquired from Philadelphia in June. Andrae, 24, played 61 games for the Flyers last season and posted 13 points; he came to Toronto in the trade that sent Joseph Woll and Simon Benoit to Philadelphia, and the two-year term gives the Leafs a low-cost look at whether he can hold an everyday role on the left side.
In fantasy, Andrae is deep-league-only for now — a third-pair puck-mover whose value depends on power-play time that Toronto’s top pairs currently control.
