Who else was floored that Joel Armia made it this high up the list? Let’s put it this way: Jesperi Kotkaniemi would not have had a poster of Armia in his bedroom growing up if last year’s performance from the elder Pori native was an average year for him.
Before I go on to slander Armia too much, I do think he’s a good player with decent talent, but if last year’s Habs went from bad to worse, Armia was the face of that, deserved or not.
As we’re about to see, it might not have been as deserved as you would think at first blush.