- Age
- 23
- Shoots
- Right
- Height
- 191 cm
- Weight
- 99 kg
- Born
- Northville, USA
- Draft
- 2022, round 4, #111 (NYR)
Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27
- Games
- 79
- Goals
- 9
- Points
- 25
- TOI per game
- 13:33
- xGF% (5v5)
- 45.0%
- Goals above expected
- −2.3
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
Extra / AHL
12th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
4th line- Goals /600.5024th pct
- Assists /600.9039th pct
- ixG /600.6424th pct
- Goals above expected−2.328th pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)45.0%17th pct
- CF% (5v5)44.9%13th pct
- Relative xGF%−4.319th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.2219th pct
Usage
4th line- TOI per game13:3339th pct
- PP time share12.3%36th pct
- Offensive zone starts42.4%25th pct
- Quality of competition23.5%18th 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
Faceoffs
How often Laba wins the draw over 2025–26 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 215+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
50.5%
356–349 · #90 of 184 regulars, 51st percentile
Against an average centre
50.5%
Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.
Wins above average
+4
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
8.9
705 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone51.6% 96–90
- Neutral zone52.0% 132–122
- Defensive zone48.3% 128–137
By strength
- Even strength50.8% 316–306
- Power play46.9% 15–17
- Shorthanded49.0% 25–26
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +15 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Jean-Gabriel Pageau43.5% 10–13
- Noah Cates44.4% 8–10
- Mark Jankowski26.7% 4–11
- Marco Kasper54.5% 6–5
- J.T. Compher50.0% 5–5
- Fraser Minten70.0% 7–3
- Luke Kunin60.0% 6–4
- Bo Horvat33.3% 3–6
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 652 | 50.8% | 50.7% |
| 2026–27 | 53 | 47.2% | 47.9% |
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.
−2.3 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed34.6 km/h61st pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph669th pct
- Hardest shot106.8 km/h20th pct
- Distance skated19 km92nd pct
- Offensive-zone time34.8%4th pct
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.
Top skating speed
37.1 km/h82nd pct
2025–26 only
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
10.890th pct
2025–26 only
Distance skated per 60
15.8 km65th pct
2025–26 only
Hardest shot
128.2 km/h7th pct
2025–26 only
Offensive-zone time
40.5%30th pct
2025–26 only