The 35-year-old forward scored 139 points (65 goals, 74 assists) in 614 regular-season games over 10 NHL seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks, Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins. He helped the Canucks reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2011, when he scored five points (three goals, two assists) in 25 postseason games. Lapierre scored the only goal in Game 5 of that best-of-7 series, a seven-game loss to the Boston Bruins.
Lapierre last played in the NHL for the Penguins in 2014-15 and signed a one-year contract with Modo of the Swedish Hockey League on Sept. 1, 2015. He played the next five seasons in Europe and won a bronze medal for Canada at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
