{"id":781596,"date":"2026-07-05T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781596\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:28:42","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-sign-rfa-defenceman-emil-andrae-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781596\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs sign RFA defenceman Emil Andrae to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> have signed restricted free agent defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/emil-andrae\/8482126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/emil-andrae\/8482126\" target=\"_blank\">Emil Andrae<\/a> to a two-year, $3.1 million contract that carries a cap hit of $1.55 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andrae, 24, was acquired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, along with goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/samuel-ersson\/8481035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/samuel-ersson\/8481035\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Ersson<\/a> and a draft pick, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in exchange for goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joseph-woll\/8479361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joseph-woll\/8479361\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Woll<\/a> and defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/simon-benoit\/8481122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/simon-benoit\/8481122\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Benoit<\/a> on June 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had two goals and 13 points in 61 games with the Flyers last season while averaging 15:20 of ice time. Andrae then added an assist in four playoff games while averaging 11:05 of ice time as the Flyers were eliminated in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-9, left-shot defenceman is coming off his three-year, entry-level contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 54th overall by the Flyers in 2020, Andrae has three goals and 20 points in 107 career NHL games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Vastervik, Sweden, native represented his country twice at the World Juniors, taking home a bronze medal in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed restricted free agent defenceman Emil Andrae to a two-year, $3.1 million contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,266203,3302,74650],"class_list":["post-781596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-emil-andrae-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482126","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}