Joel Armia

Finland Joel Armia


Date of birth	May 31, 1993
place of birth	Pori , Finland
size	192 cm
Weight	85 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 40
Shot hand	Right

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2011 , 1st round, 14th position Severstal Tscherepowez
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 1st round, 16th position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

until 2013	Porin Ässät
2013-2015	Rochester Americans
2015-2018	Winnipeg Jets
since 2018	Canadiens de Montréal

Joel Armia (born May 31, 1993 in Pori ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League since June 2018 and plays for them in the position of right winger .

Career

Joel Armia began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Porin Ässät , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 2010/11 season . In his rookie year , he scored 20 goals and provided eleven assists in a total of 53 games. He was also a loan player in four games for the Finnish U20 national team in the Mestis , the second Finnish division, on the ice and prepared three goals. He was then selected first in the KHL Junior Draft in the first round as a total of 14th player from Severstal Tscherepowez and finally in the NHL Entry Draft in the first round as a total of 16th player from the Buffalo Sabers .

After two more seasons in his home country, he moved to the Sabers organization at the beginning of the 2013/14 season and spent the year with their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League . He also made his debut in the NHL in December 2014.

In February 2015, the Buffalo Sabers including Drew Stafford , Tyler Myers and Brendan Lemieux and a first-round vote for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft gave him to the Winnipeg Jets and in return received Evander Kane , Zach Bogosian and the rights to young goalkeeper Jason Kasdorf . At this point Buffalo had three voting rights for the first round of drafts , with the Jets receiving the lowest voting rights, which depends on the performance in the current season of the St. Louis Blues and the New York Islanders . Armia was given directly to St. John's IceCaps , the Jets' farm team, which will operate under the name Manitoba Moose from the start of the 2015/16 season . Over the course of the season, however, the attacker established himself in the NHL squad of the Jets and played there until the end of the 2017/18 season . In June 2018, the Finn was handed over to the Canadiens de Montréal together with Steve Mason as well as a seven-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and a four-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft , who in return sent Simon Bourque to Winnipeg.

International

For Finland Armia took part in the junior division in 2011 in the U18 World Junior Championship and the U20 World Junior Championship . At the U18 World Cup, he was named one of the top three players on his team.

In 2012 and 2013 further appearances at the U20 world championships followed, in which he was the second best scorer of the tournament in 2013.

Achievements and Awards

2010 Top scorer of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge (together with three other players)
2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge All-Star Team
2013 Finnish champion with Porin Ässät

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Porin Ässät Junior	Jr. A SM liiga	27	15th	6th	21st	32	5	1	1	2	0
2010/11	Porin Ässät	SM-liiga	48	18th	11	29	24	5	2	0	2	4th
2011/12	Porin Ässät	SM-liiga	54	18th	20th	38	66	3	0	2	2	2
2012/13	Porin Ässät	SM-liiga	47	19th	14th	33	32	16	3	5	8th	20th
2013/14	Rochester Americans	AHL	54	7th	20th	27	30th	5	3	3	6th	9
2014/15	Rochester Americans	AHL	33	10	15th	25th	39	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	St. John's IceCaps	AHL	21st	2	6th	8th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	43	4th	6th	10	12	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Manitoba mosses	AHL	18th	3	5	8th	16	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	57	10	9	19th	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	79	12	17th	29	22nd	13	2	0	2	2
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	57	13	10	23	14th	-	-	-	-	-
SM-liiga total			149	55	45	100	120	24	5	7th	12	24
AHL total			126	22nd	46	68	107	5	3	3	6th	9
NHL overall			237	39	42	81	68	13	2	0	2	2

International

Represented Finland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Finland	U17-WHC	10th place	5	5	3	8th		2
2010	Finland	Hlinka Memorial	10th place	4th	2	4th	6th	+4	4th
2011	Finland	U20 World Cup	6th place	6th	0	1	1	+1	2
2011	Finland	U18 World Cup	5th place	6th	4th	9	13	+2	8th
2012	Finland	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	5	2	7th	+2	16
2013	Finland	U20 World Cup	7th place	6th	6th	6th	12	± 0	12
Juniors overall				34	22nd	25th	47	+9	44

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
Joel Armia at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ tsn.ca: "Kane dealt to Sabers in blockbuster deal" (English, February 11, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2015)

Squad of the Canadiens de Montréal in the 2019/20 season

personal data
SURNAME	Armia, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pori , Finland

[1] tsn.ca: "Kane dealt to Sabers in blockbuster deal" (English, February 11, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2015)