{"id":128201,"date":"2025-09-08T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:05:07","slug":"canes-sign-labanc-to-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128201\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes Sign Labanc To Professional Tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; As the Carolina Hurricanes&#8217; training camp moves closer and closer, the team continues to fill out its roster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/canes-ink-kylington-smith-to-professional-tryouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After inking<\/a> forward Givani Smith and defenseman Oliver Kylington to professional tryouts (PTOs) last month, the team added another on Monday, bringing aboard forward Kevin Labanc.<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Raleigh in hopes of playing a 10th NHL season, the 29-year-old was originally selected by the San Jose Sharks in the 2014 NHL Draft. Going on to skate with the organization until 2024, the right-handed winger attended New Jersey Devils training camp last season on a PTO before the Columbus Blue Jackets plucked him away on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Labanc has amassed 84 goals and 153 assists for a total of 237 points in 512 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; As the Carolina Hurricanes&#8217; training camp moves closer and closer, the team continues to fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-128201","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\/128201","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=128201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}