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Right wing · #62

Kevin Labanc

San Jose Sharks Columbus Blue Jackets(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Brooklyn, USA
Draft
2014, round 6, #171 (SJS)

Career · 2016–17 to 2024–25

Games
512
Goals
84
Points
237
TOI per game
14:08
xGF% (5v5)
49.9%
Goals above expected
−6.9
ShowAll teamsSan Jose SharksColumbus Blue Jackets

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2016–17SJS5581220+913:417011.4%29.049.3%
2017–18SJS77112940−614:211567.1%1713.951.8%
2018–19SJS82173956−114:0113013.1%2014.450.5%
2019–20SJS70141933−3316:041768.0%1116.951.6%
2020–21SJS55121628−916:251289.4%314.149.3%
2021–22SJS21336−413:17368.3%42.847.6%
2022–23SJS72151833−1714:2012911.6%311.952.0%
2023–24SJS46279−2711:37603.3%34.839.3%
2024–25CBJ3421012+110:30355.7%03.151.6%
Total2 teams51284153237−8714:089209.1%6390.949.9%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.811.2100200300400500
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

65th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd line
  • Goals /600.7053rd pct
  • Assists /601.2781st pct
  • ixG /600.7558th pct
  • Goals above expected−6.922nd pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.9%62nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.5%86th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.465th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2020th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:0860th pct
  • PP time share38.4%74th pct
  • Offensive zone starts64.2%78th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%69th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Cole PerfettiWPG0.87
  2. Teuvo TeravainenCAR/CHI0.83
  3. Jaromir JagrFLA/CGY0.81
  4. Andreas JohnssonTOR/NJD/SJS0.80
  5. Alexander RadulovMTL/DAL0.80
  6. Justin WilliamsWSH/CAR0.79

Faceoffs

How often Labanc wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1734+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

33.0%

29–59 · below the 1734 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

33.8%

Opponents won 50.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.2% against them.

Wins above average

−14

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.2

88 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

63%8 · −6.920%10 · +0.132%44 · +3.167%3 · +3.90%1 · –0%1 · –20%5 · 0.00%2 · –36%14 · −0.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone29.6% 16–38
  • Neutral zone44.4% 8–10
  • Defensive zone31.3% 5–11

By strength

  • Even strength34.5% 29–55
  • Power play0.0% 0–4

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +24 after a win, −14 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–17450.0%52.1%
2017–181631.3%31.7%
2018–192339.1%39.3%
2019–201216.7%18.5%
2020–2110.0%2.4%
2021–2210.0%-4.9%
2022–23862.5%63.8%
2023–242030.0%31.2%
2024–2530.0%-1.6%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−6.9 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.0 km/h28th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2530th pct
  • Hardest shot135.5 km/h39th pct
  • Distance skated93 km30th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.3%26th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.0 km/h15th pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2023–24

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 35.2 km/h, 24th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 35.0 km/h, 18th percentile (72 games)2023–24: 34.9 km/h, 13th percentile (46 games)2024–25: 35.0 km/h, 15th percentile (34 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.237th pct

▼ −1.4 since 2023–24

24681021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 4.1, 36th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 3.0, 25th percentile (72 games)2023–24: 5.6, 57th percentile (46 games)2024–25: 4.2, 37th percentile (34 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km50th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 15.1 km, 27th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 14.8 km, 20th percentile (72 games)2023–24: 15.6 km, 53rd percentile (46 games)2024–25: 15.6 km, 50th percentile (34 games)

Hardest shot

135.5 km/h25th pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2023–24

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 144.6 km/h, 55th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 152.0 km/h, 88th percentile (72 games)2023–24: 136.2 km/h, 23rd percentile (46 games)2024–25: 135.5 km/h, 25th percentile (34 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.3%28th pct

▼ −0.4 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 40.6%, 35th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 43.5%, 69th percentile (72 games)2023–24: 40.7%, 36th percentile (46 games)2024–25: 40.3%, 28th percentile (34 games)