{"id":286791,"date":"2026-04-26T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:29:48","slug":"former-sharks-forward-could-be-on-the-move-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286791\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sharks Forward Could Be on the Move in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former San Jose Sharks forward Kevin Labanc could be on the move once again following his rookie season in the Russian Kontinental Hockey League with the Shanghai Dragons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gorobzor.ru\/novosti-sporta\/hokkey\/216312-salavat-yulaev-zainteresovan-v-podpisanii-labanka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Local media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Local media&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Local media<\/a> in Ufa, Russia is reporting that Labanc Salavat Yulaev Ufa have significant interest in the 30-year-old forward and he could be making a move to western Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In his first season in the KHL, Labanc finished third on the Dragons in points with 34 in 54 games, while also finishing a team-worst -24. Labanc was outscored by another former Shark, Nick Merkley who had 45 points in 68 games, and Borna Rendulic who had 44 points in 62 games.<\/p>\n<p>Labanc was also named to the KHL All-Star game in his first year in the league.<\/p>\n<p>As a team, the Dragons finished in ninth place in the Western Conference with 54 points, missing out on a playoff spot by 25 points. Ufa, on the other hand, finished fifth in the Eastern Conference but was eliminated in the second round of the playoffs by Lokotiv Yaroslavl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former San Jose Sharks forward Kevin Labanc could be on the move once again following his rookie season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[122957,122953,122955,99894,27469,88,90,89,98,122956,122958,62644,122954],"class_list":["post-286791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-borna-rendulic","tag-kevin-labanc","tag-nick-merkley","tag-rookie-season","tag-russia","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-shanghai-dragons","tag-the-dragons","tag-ufa","tag-western-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}