Kevin Labanc

Kevin Labanc
Date of birth	December 12, 1995
place of birth	Staten Island , New York , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 62
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 6th round, 171st position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2009-2010	New Jersey Colonials
2010-2011	New Jersey Rockets
2011-2013	US National Team Development Program
2013-2016	Barrie Colts
since 2016	San Jose Sharks

Kevin Labanc (born December 12, 1995 in Staten Island , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League since March 2016 and plays there in the position of right winger .

Career

Labanc, who was born on Staten Island , New York , spent his junior years in New Jersey , where he played for the New Jersey Colonials and New Jersey Rockets in the state's children's and junior leagues until 2011. As a 15-year-old, the striker joined the US National Team Development Program of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey in the summer of 2011 . At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Labanc was active for the United States Hockey League's association team, for which he completed 33 games during the season. In addition, he played 52 other games for the U17 national team. In the cumulative 85 encounters he collected 33 scorer points , eleven of them in the USHL. The following playing time was divided according to the same principle. He completed 26 USHL games in which he collected nine points, five games for the U17 team and 62 for the U18 national team. In the summer of 2013, the winger finally left the funding program.

Initially, Labanc had decided to advance his career in the ice hockey program of the University of Notre Dame in the game operations of the US college association National Collegiate Athletic Association . After extensive consultation with his family, however, he decided to go to the professional level via the junior leagues of the Canadian Hockey League . The attacker then joined the Barrie Colts from the Ontario Hockey League , who had selected him a few weeks earlier in the OHL Priority Selection in the sixth round in 103rd place. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , the then 17-year-old was in the Colts roster at the side of the later first election in the NHL Entry Draft Aaron Ekblad . Labanc contributed 35 scorer points in 65 games in his rookie season and reached the second round of the play-offs with the team . There he scored another seven points in eleven games. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in the sixth round in 171st place by the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League . In the following game year , the winger finally made his breakthrough in the OHL. He collected a total of 107 scorer points over the course of the season, making him the sixth-best scorer in the entire league. With his striker colleagues Joseph Blandisi and Andrew Mangiapane , he formed one of the league's most dangerous attack lines, which totaled 323 points. In the play-offs, the team failed again in the second round. In his third year, Labanc followed up with another increase. The American increased his point yield by another 20 points. His total of 127 points earned him numerous individual awards in addition to being elected to the League's Second All-Star Team. As the top scorer of the league, he received the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy , as well as the right winger with the highest points, the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy . The collection was rounded off with the Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy for the best overage player of the season. In the play-offs, the Colts failed this time in the third round. Within the team, the American was again the best player in his club with 26 points in 15 games.

After Labanc failed with the Barrie Colts in the conference final of the play-offs at the Niagara IceDogs , he finally switched to the professional camp at the end of April 2016. The San Jose Sharks, with whom he had signed an NHL entry contract with a term of three years at the beginning of the previous month , appointed him to their farm team . With the San Jose Barracuda from the American Hockey League , the attacker completed the fourth game of the play-off series against the Ontario Reign . The third defeat of San Jose was equivalent to elimination in the best-of-five series. In October 2016, Labanc took part in the San Jose Sharks training camp and one day before the start of the season was one of the last players to be sent to the farm team. After he had collected ten points scorer in the first six games of the season there, he was appointed to the NHL squad San Joses for the first time and made his debut on November 8th.

International

As a result of his involvement in the US National Team Development Program , Labanc recommended himself in the junior division to participate in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 in the Canadian province of Ontario and the U18 Junior World Championship in 2013 in the Russian Olympic city of Sochi . As part of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, Labanc played in five of the six tournament games of the Americans, which were only defeated by the Russian team in the final. The attacker did not score a scorer point in the five tournament games , but took home the silver medal at the end of the tournament. At the U18 Junior World Championship a year later, the Americans secured the silver medal again after losing to their arch rivals Canada in the final. The right winger completed all seven matches and scored his only goal in the group win over Latvia.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy
• 2016 Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy
• 2016 Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy
• 2016 OHL Second All-Star Team

International

• 2012 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2013 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

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	US National Team Development Program	USHL		33	3	8th	11	10	−10		2	1	0	1	0	± 0
2012/13	US National Team Development Program	USHL		26th	3	6th	9	8th	+2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Barrie Colts	OHL		65	11	24	35	30th	+3		11	3	4th	7th	4th	+2
2014/15	Barrie Colts	OHL		68	31	76	107	55	+13		9	2	4th	6th	8th	± 0
2015/16	Barrie Colts	OHL		65	39	88	127	70	+60		15th	6th	20th	26th	28	+14
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	0	−2
2016/17	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		19th	6th	13	19th	24	+2		15th	3	4th	7th	6th	−2
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		55	8th	12	20th	22nd	+9		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		2	1	3	4th	2	+3		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		77	11	29	40	32	−6		10	1	4th	5	2	−1
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	17th	39	56	36	−1		20th	4th	5	9	14th	−7
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		70	14th	19th	33	38	−33		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				59	6th	14th	20th	18th	−8		2	1	0	1	0	± 0
OHL total				198	81	188	269	155	+76		35	11	28	39	40	+16
AHL total				19th	6th	13	19th	24	+2		16	3	4th	7th	6th	−4
NHL overall				284	50	99	149	128	−33		30th	5	9	14th	16	−8

International

Represented the USA at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012
• U18 Junior World Championship 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2012	United States	U17-WHC			5	0	0	0	4th
2013	United States	U18 World Cup			7th	1	0	1	0	± 0
Juniors overall					12	1	0	1	4th

( 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

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Kevin Labanc at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kevin Labanc at hockeydb.com (English)