Career

After playing four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Grand-Pierre made his professional debut in the American Hockey League with the Rochester Americans during the 1997-98 season, recording ten points and 211 penalty minutes in 75 games. During the 1998-99 season, he made his NHL debut with the Buffalo Sabres, appearing in 16 games.

After once again spending part of the season with the Sabres in 1999-2000, Grand-Pierre was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft. Grand-Pierre spent three full seasons with Columbus before splitting the 2003-04 season between the Blue Jackets, Atlanta Thrashers, and Washington Capitals. In his NHL career, Grand-Pierre has appeared in 269 games, scoring seven goals and 13 assists.

Grand-Pierre spent the 2005-06 season with Duisburg Die Füchse of Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga before joining the DEG Metro Stars for the 2006-07 season, then signing with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League for the 2007-08 season spending the entire season with the Devils' AHL affiliate, the Lowell Devils. In 2008 he returned to Duisburg. On July 20, 2009, it was announced that he had signed a one-year deal with Leksands IF of the Swedish second tier league HockeyAllsvenskan (Swe-1). He was loaned out to Stjernen of the Norwegian GET-ligaen for 10 matches in the fall of 2009.

Grand-Pierre was rented by the Finnish SM-liiga team TPS prior to the 2010-11 season, for taxiation reasons. He played for the team until October 15, 2010.

Grand-Pierre was released from the Leksands IF organization on September 1, 2011. Subsequently he signed a one-year contract with the Swe-1 team Malmö Redhawks on October 4, 2011.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1993-94	Beauport Harfangs	QMJHL		46	1	4	5	27		—	—	—	—	—
1994-95	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL		59	10	13	23	126		—	—	—	—	—
1995-96	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL		67	13	21	34	209		13	1	4	5	47
1996-97	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL		58	9	24	33	196		13	5	8	13	46
1997-98	Rochester Americans	AHL		75	4	6	10	211		4	0	0	0	2
1998-99	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		16	0	1	1	17		—	—	—	—	—
1998-99	Rochester Americans	AHL		55	5	4	9	90		—	—	—	—	—
1999-00	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		11	0	0	0	15		4	0	0	0	4
1999-00	Rochester Americans	AHL		62	5	8	13	124		17	0	1	1	40
2000-01	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		64	1	4	5	73		—	—	—	—	—
2001-02	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		81	2	6	8	90		—	—	—	—	—
2002-03	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		41	1	0	1	64		—	—	—	—	—
2002-03	Syracuse Crunch	AHL		2	1	0	1	6		—	—	—	—	—
2003-04	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		16	0	0	0	12		—	—	—	—	—
2003-04	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		27	2	2	4	26		—	—	—	—	—
2003-04	Washington Capitals	NHL		13	1	0	1	14		—	—	—	—	—
2003-04	Syracuse Crunch	AHL		—	—	—	—	—		4	0	1	1	8
2004-05	Troja/Ljungby	Swe2		11	1	1	2	45		10	1	2	3	24
2005-06	Duisburg Die Fuchse	DEL		45	10	9	19	176		—	—	—	—	—
2006-07	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		44	9	14	23	63		9	1	1	2	10
2007-08	Lowell Devils	AHL		63	3	5	8	82		—	—	—	—	—
2008-09	Duisburg Die Fuchse	DEL		47	5	8	13	135		9	1	1	2	10
2009-10	Stjernen	GET		7	0	0	0	10		—	—	—	—	—
2009-10	Leksands IF	Swe2		37	6	2	8	146		10	0	3	3	6
2010-11	TPS	SM-liiga		7	0	0	0	47		—	—	—	—	—
2010-11	Leksands IF	Swe2		19	2	3	5	55		—	—	—	—	—
2011-12	Malmo Redhawks	Swe2		44	2	5	7	91		6	1	1	2	6
2011-12	Fuchse Duisburg	Ger3		7	3	3	6	12		—	—	—	—	—
NHL totals				269	7	13	20	311		4	0	0	0	4

Personal life

Grand-Pierre is cousin to Georges Laraque and QMJHL-player Jules-Edy Laraque, Jean-Luc is of Haitian descent. He is a licensed real estate agent in the State of Ohio, and currently works for HER Real Living and The Raines Group. He is also currently and associate head coach for the New Albany Hockey high school junior varsity team. With hopes to make the team a varsity team for next year, he brought in former teammate and Ohio State former goaltender Dave Caruso as a goaltender coach.

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