As a youth, he played in the 1984 and 1986
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a
minor ice hockey team from Sherbrooke. After playing four seasons in the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Labbé began a very successful
American Hockey League career. He played for the
Prince Edward Island Senators,
Cornwall Aces,
Hershey Bears,
Hamilton Bulldogs,
Hartford Wolf Pack and
Syracuse Crunch in his AHL tenure. His best season came in
1996–1997 with the Hershey Bears, when he won both the
Hap Holmes Memorial Award for lowest
goals against average and the
Les Cunningham Award for league MVP. Labbé won the
Calder Cup with the
Hartford Wolf Pack in
2000. Labbé appeared in 15 NHL games: one with the
New York Rangers at the end of the
1999–2000 season and 14 with the
Columbus Blue Jackets during the
2001–02 and
2002–03 seasons. He played for the
Saint-Georges Garaga in the
Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey in 2003–2004 after a short stint with the
Tolyatti Lada in the
Russian Hockey Super League. Labbé played in the DEL for three seasons, with
Augsburger Panther in 2004–05 and with the
Sinupret Ice Tigers in 2005–06 and 2006–07. For the 2008 and 2009 season he joined the
Vienna Capitals in
Austria's Erste Bank Hockey League. He finished his career in 2011 after a season with the
Sherbrooke Saint-François in the
Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey. Labbé was selected for induction as part of the American Hockey League Hall of Fame's 2016 class. ==Records==