Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


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team=EV Duisburg Die Füchse
former_teams = Buffalo Sabres
Columbus Blue Jackets
Atlanta Thrashers
Washington Capitals
"DEL"
EV Duisburg Die Füchse
DEG Metro Stars
league = DEL
position = Defence
shoots = Right
height_ft = 6
height_in = 3
weight_lb = 228
nickname =
nationality = CAN
birth_date = Birth date and age|1977|2|2|mf=y
birth_place = Montreal, PQ, CAN
draft = 179th overall
draft_year = 1995
draft_team = St. Louis Blues
career_start = 1997
career_end =

Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre (born February 2, 1977, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for EV Duisburg Die Füchse in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He is of Haitian descent. He was drafted in the seventh round, 179th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.

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 EV 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 Duisberg.

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