Mantas Armalis

Mantas Armalis
Date of birth	September 6, 1992
place of birth	Plungė , Lithuania
size	194 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2007-2008	Djurgårdens IF
2008-2014	Mora IK
2012-2013	Tranås AIF
2014-2016	Djurgårdens IF
2016-2017	San Jose Barracuda
2017-2018	Dinamo Riga
since 2018	Skellefteå AIK

Mantas Armalis (born September 6, 1992 in Plungė ) is a Lithuanian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with Skellefteå AIK from Svenska Hockeyligan since 2018 . In addition to his sporting career, he also works as a model .

Career

Mantas Armalis grew up in Sweden and belonged to the youth department of the Haninge HF . In the 2007/08 season he played with the U16 juniors from Djurgårdens IF . He then moved to Mora IK , for whom he was in goal from 2009 to 2012 in the J20 SuperElit , the highest junior league in Sweden. In his first senior season he was loaned to the third division team Tranås AIF . The 2013/13 season he ran for Mora in HockeyAllsvenskan , the second highest Swedish league. In summer 2014 he moved back to Djurgårdens IF, which had just been promoted to Svenska Hockeyligan . In the two seasons at Djurgården he was used in a total of 57 games in the top Swedish league and nine games in the Champions Hockey League .

In April 2016 he signed an entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League (NHL) and ran for their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League . After a year in which he was used exclusively in the AHL, Armalis returned to Europe and joined Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League . In 2018 he moved back to the Svenska Hockey-Ligan, where he is now in goal for the Skellefteå AIK .

International

For Lithuania, Armalis participated in the junior division at the U18 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2009 , when he was voted the best goalkeeper of the tournament, and in 2010, as well as in the U20 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2011 and Division II in 2012 when he was with the best catch statistics (94.4% saved shots) not only as the best goalkeeper of the tournament, but also as the best player of his team.

For the Lithuanian men's national team , he played in Division I at the 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2018 and 2019 World Championships . In 2013 and 2014 he achieved the third-best catch rate of all goalkeepers in Group B of Division I with over 90% and was also voted the best player on his team in 2014. In 2015 he achieved the best catch rate with 93.8% and was thus also voted the best goalkeeper of the tournament in Group B of Division I. , In 2018 he achieved the second-best catch quota and the second-lowest counter goal behind the Estonian Villem-Henrik Koitmaa and thus became a strong support for the Lithuanians when they were promoted from the B group to the A group of Division I for the first time.

He also took part in the qualifying tournaments for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and in Pyeongchang , South Korea, in 2018 . However, the Lithuanian team failed in the first qualifying round.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Best goalkeeper at the U18 World Junior Championship, Division I, Group A.
• 2012 Best goalkeeper of the U20 World Junior Championship, Division II, Group A.
• 2012 Best catch quota at the U20 World Junior Championships in Division II, Group A.
• 2015 Best Goalkeeper of the World Cup Division I, Group B
• 2015 Best catch quota at the World Championship of Division I, Group B
• 2018 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Cup of Division I, Group B

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Victories	Defeats	OTN	Minutes	GT	Shutouts	Sv%	GTS
AHL regular season	1	24	12	5	7th	1256	64	2	.885	3.06
AHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL regular season	1	12				576	24	0	.911	2.50
KHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Personal

Armalis has a younger brother (Julius, * 1997) who is also an ice hockey goalkeeper. His parents were professional orienteers and immigrated to Sweden when their firstborn son was four months old. In addition to his sporting career, Armalis works as a model , including for the fashion company Versace .

Web links

• Mantas Armalis at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mantas Armalis at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sharks Sign Goaltender Mantas Armalis. sharks.nhl.com, April 11, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Profile: Mantas Armalis. models.com, accessed April 15, 2016 .