Last season, Labanc won the OHL Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy award (top scorer) with 127 points (39 goals, 88 assists) in 65 games with Barrie, and finished ranked 1st in OHL in assists and in plus-minus (+60). The forward also took home the OHL Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy award (top scoring right winger), was named "Best Playmaker" and "Best Penalty Killer" in the OHL coaches poll, and finished with the second-most points in the entire CHL (Conor Garland had one more point).
The five-foot-ten, 185-pound native of Brooklyn, New York, was originally drafted by San Jose in the sixth round (171st overall) of the 2014 NHL Draft. This marks his first NHL recall.
