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Columbus Blue Jackets

Kevin Labanc

#62Right Wing

2024-25 regular season
34
GP
2
G
10
A
12
P
35
SOG
5.7% SH
10:30
TOI/GP

RW · CBJ · NHL id 8478099

Kevin Labanc has played 34 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2024-25, scoring 2 goals and 10 assists (12 points) on 35 shots while averaging 10:30 a night (9:46 at even strength, 0:35 on the power play and 0:00 shorthanded). At 5v5 the Blue Jackets have controlled 52% of shot attempts with Labanc on the ice (13-12 in goals, 49% offensive-zone starts). In the Blue Jackets' most recent game against BUF he was on L4 with Sean Kuraly and Mikael Pyyhtia and off the power play. He is shooting 5.7% this season against 9.0% across the 487 games in our data.

Right now

From the Feb 4 game vs BUF, detected from shift data

Line
L4
Sean KuralyMikael Pyyhtia
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 5: L4 · L4 · L4 · L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

2024-25 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 7 games, 9:54 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine44444440m3m7m10m13mDec 23Dec 28Jan 2Jan 7Jan 11Jan 16Jan 20Jan 23Jan 30Feb 2
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
7 games shown, 9:54 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2024-25 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE
Top speed27th2821.7 mph
Bursts 20+ mph29th3025
Hardest shot39th3984.2 mph
Offensive-zone time26th2640.3%
Distance skated30th3057.7 mi
High-danger SOG23rd236
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2024-25 · 93 attempts, 35 on goal, 2 goals

Shot map, OPP at CBJ: 93 attempts, 35 on goal, 2 goals, 3.25 expected goals; best chance Kevin Labanc at 0.85 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Puck luck

2024-25 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

012345-1.3goals below expected-0.8σOct 10Feb 4
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

Beyond the box score

2024-25 regular season · 33 of 34 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.013
Season net
−0.07xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 60
1.26
Attempts
7
0.016

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.75G
Per 60
−0.127
Drawn / taken
2 / 6minors

MethodLeaders
51.4%
50.0%
52.1%
Transition CF/60
4.5
Turnovers won/60
18.8
Turnovers lost/60
21.1

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
35 shots on goal, 2 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
R Circle29%13%0
Outside R20%4%0
L Circle0%13%0
L Point0%6%0
Center Point3%8%0
L Net Side0%3%0
R Point9%6%0

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

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How his goals happened

4 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method
Goal anatomy
GamePlayEntryPassesShot mphNotesReplay
Dec 5, 2024 @ EDMDeflectioncarry063.5—
Nov 2, 2024 @ WSHRebound—00.7rebound
Jan 13, 2024 @ OTTRushcarry048.4—
Dec 5, 2023 @ NYIDeflection—132.2deflection

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2024-25 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Labanc

No 5v5 pairing data this season yet.

Game log

34 games in 2024-25, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Feb 4@ BUFL 2-3000-10010—10:5010:50——
Jan 18@ NYROTL 0-100002001—8:578:57——
Jan 16vs SJSW 4-100001000—8:338:33——
Jan 14vs PHIW 3-200000011—8:388:38——
Jan 11@ STLW 2-100003210—10:4710:47——
Jan 9vs SEAW 6-200000000—10:5210:20——
Jan 7@ PITW 4-3000020010%11:1111:11——
Dec 17@ TBLL 3-5000-21000—5:205:20——
Dec 15@ CARL 1-4000-21020—9:236:352:48—
Dec 14vs ANAOTL 3-4011+10001—9:238:460:37—
Dec 12vs WSHOTL 1-200001020—9:468:381:08—
Dec 10vs PHIL 3-5000-10210—8:048:04——
Dec 8@ WPGW 4-100000000—8:138:000:13—
Dec 6@ VANL 2-500001010—11:389:281:580:12
Dec 5@ EDML 3-610103000—9:448:510:53—
Dec 3@ CGYL 0-300001011—12:3812:040:34—
Dec 1@ CHIW 6-300001221—10:569:491:01—
Nov 29vs CGYW 5-200000030—12:0611:080:58—
Nov 27vs MTLOTL 3-4000-11000—8:376:521:44—
Nov 23vs CARW 5-4000+11011—12:479:592:42—

Season splits by strength

2024-25 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations34356:4910:3038532454.3%55.2%169140151354%13.611.253%
Even strength34332:029:4635131952.4%53.3%153136131252%11.810.949%
5v534332:029:4635131952.4%53.3%153136131252%11.810.949%
Power play1719:491:1023485.2%82.4%1031150%1.10.2100%
Penalty kill20:140:0720100.0%100.0%1000—0.10.0—
5v41719:491:1023485.2%82.4%1031150%1.10.2100%
6v5, own net empty74:050:3590100.0%100.0%5010100%0.60.0100%

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2024-25CBJ3421012+112355.7%291410:30
2023-24SJS46279-2716603.3%611711:37
2022-23SJS72151833-173612911.6%702814:20
2021-22SJS21336-46368.3%28913:17
2020-21SJS55121628-9311289.4%611516:25
2019-20SJS70141933-33381768.0%462416:04
2018-19PlayoffsSJS20459-7143411.8%13614:51
2018-19SJS82173956-13613013.1%661614:01
2017-18PlayoffsSJS10145-12156.7%9114:21
2017-18SJS77112940-6321567.1%312314:21

Kevin Labanc news

Headlines via LineupExperts. Links open the original publisher.

On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.