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Gannon Laroque
D
#28
- DOB: 8/20/2003
- Ht: 6-2
- Wt: 200
- Shoots: R
- Years on Team: 1
- Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta
- Drafted: 2021 round 4 #103 overall by San Jose Sharks
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2023-24
• Skated in just 18 games between the ECHL and AHL due to injury... scored his first pro/AHL goal in the season finale on 4/20/24 (Dylan Wells).
2022-23
- Lower-body injury allowed for him to appear in just four games with the Victoria Royals (WHL).
- Named captain of the Royals on June 4, 2022.
- Signed a three-year ELC with the Sharks on June. 1, 2022.
2021-22
- Collected his first AHL/pro point (assist) on Apr. 22, 2023 at Henderson.
- Appeared in three games with the Barracuda at the end of the year as an 18-year-old, making his AHL/pro debut on Apr. 20, 2022 at Bakersfield.
- Registered 52 points (10 goals, 42 assists) in 63 games for the Victoria... Among league defensemen, he finished in the top 10 in assists (ninth), points (10th) and power-play assists (24, tied-seventh), and he was the fourth-youngest defenseman to reach the 50-point threshold in the WHL this season.
- Paced all Victoria defensemen in almost every major offensive category, ranking first in goals, assists, points, shots (118), power-play points (28) and game-winning goals (two)... His 10 goals and 42 assists are the most recorded by a defenseman for Victoria since 2017-18 and 2015-16, respectively.
- At the end of the season, Laroque was the recipient of the Royals Top Defenseman Award, was named to the WHL B.C. Division First All-Star Team, was the WHL B.C. Division Defenseman of the Year and was one of four nominees for WHL Defenseman of the Year.
2020-21
- Notched seven points (one goal, six assists) in 21 games for Victoria, finishing as the Royals highest-scoring defenseman, second highest-scoring rookie and earning their Top Defenseman Award.
- He notched his first WHL assist in his second game of the season and scored his first WHL goal just two games later.
- He also appeared in four games for the Spruce Grove Saints of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), collecting a pair of assists.
Player Stats
Regular Season
Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PPG | SHG | SOG | GWG | FOW | PTS/G |
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2023-24 Regular Season | SJ | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.22 |
2021-22 Regular Season | SJ | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.33 |
Total | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 |