{"id":125926,"date":"2025-09-07T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125926\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:00:09","slug":"forward-kevin-labanc-heads-to-hurricanes-on-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125926\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Kevin Labanc heads to Hurricanes on professional tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they look to try and take the next step, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/carolina-hurricanes\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"carolina-hurricanes\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> may add some depth to their forward corps. <\/p>\n<p>Labanc, 29, is a steady forward who picked up two goals and 10 assists in 34 games with the Columbus Blue Jackets last year, but underwent shoulder surgery in February, ending his season. <\/p>\n<p>He played a career-low 10:30 of average ice time per game. <\/p>\n<p>He joined the Blue Jackets on a one-year minimum contract after spending the first eight years of his professional career with the San Jose Sharks. <\/p>\n<p>Once regarded as a solid developmental forward after tallying 17 goals and 39 assists for 56 points in the 2018-19 season, Labanc has seen his production tail off in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>Selected 171st overall in the sixth round of the 2014 draft, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native has 84 goals and 153 assists (237 points) in 512 games in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As they look to try and take the next step, the Carolina Hurricanes may add some depth to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-125926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}