Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Naud played professionally in the AHL and the IHL, before taking his game to Europe in 1986.
Highlights of his playing career were winning the AHL Calder Cup with the Rochester Americans in 1983,[REF] the Turner Cup with IHL's Muskegon Lumberjacks in 1985 and earning promotion to the German elite league Deutsche Eishockey Liga with the Augsburger Panther in 1994.