Emil Andrae is back with the Phantoms, he’s been given a significant role to work with, and he’s taking it all in stride. From the get-go, Andrae was given the expected high volume of minutes at even strength, as well as deployment on their top power play unit, but along with that, as something of a newer development, he’s been getting some work on the penalty kill. A lot of work on the penalty kill.
There is the plain fact of that matter that, by virtue of the Phantoms continuing to take the staggering number of penalties as they have been to start the season — they’ve been shorthanded 25 times over four games, the most of any team in the league — there will be a lot of penalty kill minutes up for grabs, but more often than not Andrae has been the first one over the boards for the Phantoms when a shorthanded situation arises for them.