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.