{"id":37700,"date":"2018-11-08T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=37700"},"modified":"2018-11-08T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:12:13","slug":"montreal-canadiens-joel-armia-suffers-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/08\/montreal-canadiens-joel-armia-suffers-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Joel Armia Suffers Knee Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced that winger Joel Armia<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for six to eight weeks with a knee injury. The team made the announcement via their twitter account. Earlier in the day, head coach Claude Julien<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>indicated that Armia had undergone an MRI and the team was waiting on the results.<\/p>\n

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MEDICAL UPDATE<\/p>\n

Joel Armia<\/a> suffered a right knee injury on November 6 at NY Rangers. His recovery period is expected to be 6-8 weeks.<\/p>\n

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Joel Armia Injured<\/h1>\n

Armia was tripped and made knee to knee contact with New York Rangers<\/a> defensemen Brendan Smith<\/a><\/strong>. He tried to shake off the injury but ended up going down the tunnel a few minutes late and didn’t return to the game.<\/p>\n

So far this season, Armia has scored three goals and four assists for seven points to go along with eight minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 53.6 percent Corsi-for 0and a relative Corsi of +0.4.<\/p>\n

Over his five-year NHL career, Armia\u00a0has played for the Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, Winnipeg Jets<\/a>\u00a0and Montreal Canadiens. He has 29\u00a0goals and 36 assists for 65\u00a0career points in 195\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the first\u00a0round, 16th\u00a0overall in the 2011\u00a0NHL draft.<\/p>\n

What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n

Losing Armia would be a major blow to the Habs all Finnish line of Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a><\/strong>, Joel Armia and Artturi Lehkonen<\/a><\/strong>. That line has been one of Montreal’s best lines in the last few games. Armia has also seen some power-play time in recent games with Paul Byron<\/a><\/strong> out of the line-up. Armia has yet to score a goal on the man advantage in his career. With both Byron and Armia are unable to play on Thursday night, Kenny Agostino<\/a><\/strong> was called up from Laval.<\/p>\n

The team could look to bring up Nikita Scherbak<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0soon as well. He made the opening night roster but hasn’t appeared in a game for the Habs this season. He was sent down to Laval last week on a conditioning stint.<\/p>\n

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