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Joel Armia is a 33-year-old right wing for the Los Angeles Kings. Selected 16th overall by BUF in the 2011 NHL Draft. Born in Pori, FIN.
This season, the right-shooting forward has 2 goals and 3 assists for 5 points in 13 games. He averages 0.38 points per game on 13:38 of ice time.
2026-27 · Regular season
2026-27 projection
Projected September 28, 2026 — 80% range on points. All 2026-27 player projections
80% range: 7–32 pts
2026-27 · Regular season
Full statistical breakdown for the 2026-27 regular season.
League percentile
Vs. all NHL skaters, 10+ games played. 99 = best, 1 = lowest.
2026-27 pace
Where Joel's current rate finishes the 2026-27 season.
End of season forecast, current pace
68
games remaining
Goals
12
Current: 2
Assists
19
Current: 3
Points
31
Current: 5
Limited offensive production projected. Expected range of 17-45 points based on current usage patterns.
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Art Ross
Most Points
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Rocket
Most Goals
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Playmaker
Most Assists
Projections based on current pace extrapolated to the full season with variance modeling.
5v5
What happened while Joel was on the ice at 5v5, and who he was sent out against. 2026-27.
5v5 only (situationCode 1551), unblocked attempts, shift-chart attribution. 13 games, 208 unblocked attempts on the ice.
Quality of competition
63.0 vs 57.3 lg
93th percentile
Quality of teammates
50.4 vs 56.8 lg
31th percentile
Deployment
buried
by competition faced
Competition and teammate quality are the average on-ice strength of the players he shared the ice with at 5v5, on the same 0–100 scale as the league averages beside them.
Shot Selection
Where Joel takes his shots, and how each zone converts.
Unblocked attempts
29
Goals vs expected
2 vs 2.0 xG
5v5 scoring-chance share
30%
With-or-without-you
Who Joel plays with at 5v5, and how the shot-quality share moves when they are apart — a with-or-without-you read.
| Teammate | Together | xGF% with | xGF% apart | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott LaughtonC | 109 min | 50.0 | — | — |
5v5, real shift-overlap TOI; Corsi incl blocked, xG unblocked. “Apart” is that teammate’s share in the minutes he played without Joel, so the swing is a comparison of the same player in two situations rather than against the league. Pairs need 100 minutes together to appear at all, and a swing still carries whoever else was on the ice — it is a strong hint, not an isolated effect.
2026-27
PuckCast Player Intelligence, and the skill radar and on-ice impact behind it.
Skill radar & on-ice impact vs. NHL forwards
50
Offense
28
Defense
Percentile ranks across 6 skill dimensions. Larger shape = more complete player.
Scouting Take
Displays a heavy penalty-kill workload.
On-ice impact mirrored side by side. Equal bars = balanced. Asymmetry = one-dimensional.
The Gap
22-pt spreadLeans offensive. The 22-point spread between offensive (50th) and defensive (28th) percentiles is typical of a scoring-first winger.
Percentile ranks across 6 skill dimensions.
Scouting Take
Displays a heavy penalty-kill workload.
On-ice impact mirrored side by side.
The Gap
22-pt spreadLeans offensive. The 22-point spread between offensive (50th) and defensive (28th) percentiles is typical of a scoring-first winger.
Career
Season-by-season NHL regular season statistics throughout Joel Armia's career.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | S | S% | PIM | PPG | TOI/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-272026-27 | LAK | 13 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 20 | 10.0% | |||
| 25-262025-26 | LAK | 67 | 13 | 12 | 25 | +1 | 92 | 14.1% | |||
| 24-252024-25 | MTL | 81 | 11 | 18 | 29 | -2 | 104 | 10.6% |
Form
Joel's last five games played — playoff games included if his team advanced, since the NHL does not separate them here.
| Date | Opp | G | A | P | +/- | S | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31 | vs BUF | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:40 |
| Oct 29 | vs OTT | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13:28 |
| Oct 27 | @ CHI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:14 |
| Oct 26 | @ NYR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:50 |
| Oct 24 | @ NJD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:10 |
Similar right wings
Same position, comparable 2026-27 projected rate and 2026-27 shot/power-play rate. Compare Joel to another player
Roster
Top teammates by points on the Los Angeles Kings this season.
Bars are share of unblocked attempts, where he chooses to shoot, over a full season, which is the stable part. xG/100 compares his shot quality from a zone against the league rate for a forward. GAx is goals above expected there, a single season and noisy, zones marked * are flagged small-sample by the generator and are shown muted rather than hidden.
| 23-242023-24 | MTL | 66 | 17 | 8 | 25 | +4 | 139 | 12.2% |
| 22-232022-23 | MTL | 43 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 69 | 10.1% |
| 21-222021-22 | MTL | 60 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -15 | 103 | 5.8% |
| 20-212020-21 | MTL | 41 | 7 | 7 | 14 | +10 | 73 | 9.6% |
| 19-202019-20 | MTL | 58 | 16 | 14 | 30 | +2 | 155 | 10.3% |
| 18-192018-19 | MTL | 57 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 134 | 9.7% |
| 17-182017-18 | WPG | 79 | 12 | 17 | 29 | +3 | 128 | 9.4% |
| 16-172016-17 | WPG | 57 | 10 | 9 | 19 | -8 | 111 | 9.0% |
| 15-162015-16 | WPG | 43 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +2 | 52 | 7.7% |
| 14-152014-15 | BUF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Career | — | 666 | 118 | 119 | 237 | -12 | 1180 | 10.0% |

Scott Laughton
C · 5 pts