DeRouville bụ onye a mụrụ na Victoriaville, Quebec, ọ gbara bọọlụ na QAAA na Magog tupu ọ banye Longueuil Collège Français nke QMJHL. Ndị Pittsburgh Penguins họpụtara ya dị ka onye nke 115 n'afọ 1992
mgbe ahụ laghachiri na obere maka afọ abụọ ọzọ. DeRouville nọchitere anya Canada na 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship. A họpụtara nwa okorobịa ahụ nwere onyinye na otu egwuregwu nke abụọ nke egwuregwu niile na 1993 na 1994. N'afọ 1993-94 ọ gbara goolu 3.06 bụ nke kacha mma na QMJHL.