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Joel Edmundson
Los Angeles Kings Defense #6
Six-five, mean about it, and last season the man asked to make a 22-year-old's mistakes disappear.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82 | 2 | 21 | 23 | +14 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 1.9 | 18:29 |
| Career | 685 | 37 | 116 | 153 | +60 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 913 | 4.0 | 18:43 |
Last Season
Two goals and 21 points in all 82 games, plus-14 — the second-best mark on the team — on eighteen and a half minutes a night. He played 74 percent of his five-on-five time with Brandt Clarke.
The Physical Game
The reason he has a job. Six-five and 220, and he plays the front of his own net like a man defending a doorway: he clears it, he cross-checks, and forwards who set up there pay for the shift. He is strong along the wall and finishes checks on the forecheck without wandering out of position to do it.
He is not a fighter by trade anymore but has never avoided one.
The Finesse Game
Limited and honest about it. Two goals in a full season is not an accident; he does not shoot, does not carry the puck, and makes the simple first pass or puts it off the glass. Twenty-one assists is high for him and mostly reflects who he was standing next to.
The skating is the weakness. He is a step slow against fast wingers and gets beaten wide, which is the reason he plays on the left side of a pairing with somebody who can recover.
The Intangibles
He has won a Cup, he has been traded a few times, and he has been the veteran chaperone for a young defenceman more than once. That is a real role and he does it without complaint.
Thirty-three this season, with a game built on size and willingness rather than speed. That profile can hold for another few years or fall off in one.