2025-2026 Men's Ice Hockey Roster
Karabela, Jake
Jersey Number 49
Jake Karabela
- Year:
- Freshman
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 187
- Hometown:
- Guelph, Ontario
- Junior Team:
- Guelph Storm (OHL)
- NHL:
- Washington (2022, Fifth Round, No. 149)
Bio
NHL
- Drafted by the Washington Capitals in the fifth round of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft (No. 149 overall)
- Selected for 2022 CHL Top Prospects Game
- Spent four years in the OHL, all with the Guelph Storm; had 171 points (66g, 105a) in 249 regular season games
- Alternate captain for the Storm the last two years
- 55 points, on 25 goals and 30 assists, in 65 regular season games in 2023-24 and had 32 points (11a, 21a) in 2024-25 while skating in 48 regular season gamesÂ
- Posted 12-33-45 totals in 68 regular season games in 2021-22 and had 39 points (18g, 21a) in 68 regular season games in 2022-23
- Graduated from Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute in 2022
- Played baseball and basketball growing up
- Parents are Heather Pierce, a high school principal, and Stan Karabela, a high school phyical education teacher
- Has a younger sibling, Hadley
- Wears No. 49 because it is his grandparents' birth year
- Plans to major in sport industry
- Enjoys camping, tennis and golf
- Father got him into hockey around age 4
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