Joseph LaBate

Joseph LaBate
Date of birth	April 16, 1993
place of birth	Eagan , Minnesota , USA
size	193 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 4th round, 101st position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
2008-2011	Academy of Holy Angels
2011-2015	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2015-2018	Vancouver Canucks Utica Comets
since 2018	Belleville Senators

Joseph LaBate (born April 16, 1993 in Eagan , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Belleville Senators of the American Hockey League since August 2018 and plays there on the position of the center .

Career

LaBate attended the Academy of Holy Angels , a high school in the state of Minnesota , until the summer of 2011 . After his time there, the center forward was selected in the fourth round in the fourth round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League . First he enrolled for the next four years at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where, in addition to his studies, he worked for the ice hockey university team, first in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and later in the Big Ten Conference , both divisions in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , played. With the team he won the division championship at the end of the 2012/13 season.

After LaBate graduated in spring 2015, he was signed by the Canucks in April, who used him for the rest of the season on their farm team , the Utica Comets , in the American Hockey League (AHL). The attacker also spent the entire 2015/16 season with the Comets , where he scored 21 points in 70 missions . After a successful start to the coming season, the American was appointed to the Vancouver NHL squad for the first time in late November 2016 and made his debut. After the 2017/18 season, his expiring contract with the Canucks was not extended, so he signed an AHL-limited contract with the Belleville Senators in August 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Wisconsin – Madison

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011/12	University of Wisconsin – Madison	WCHA		37	5	15th	20th	24
2012/13	University of Wisconsin – Madison	WCHA		41	9	14th	23	51
2013/14	University of Wisconsin – Madison	Big Ten		37	11	11	22nd	22nd
2014/15	University of Wisconsin – Madison	Big Ten		35	6th	12	18th	46
2014/15	Utica Comets	AHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Utica Comets	AHL		66	10	10	20th	79		4th	0	1	1	6th
2016/17	Utica Comets	AHL		38	6th	10	16	80		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		13	0	0	0	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Utica Comets	AHL		39	6th	5	11	87		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Belleville Senators	AHL		70	8th	5	13	106		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Belleville Senators	AHL		47	10	16	26th	53		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				150	31	52	83	143
AHL total				262	40	46	86	407		4th	0	1	1	6th
NHL overall				13	0	0	0	21st		-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Joseph Labate in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Joseph LaBate at eliteprospects.com (English)