In the book, Nolan provides raw details of his life in Garden River First Nation Reserve, leaving home to play hockey as an outsider, making the NHL, his journey in coaching and a still-stunning split with the Sabres
The knock at the door was the delivery of the Jack Adams Award – a prestigious nod given annually to the NHL’s coach of the year.
That jarring anecdote opens Nolan’s book “Life in Two Worlds: A Coach’s Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back,” which hit shelves this week. “Extremely hard for me to adjust,” said Nolan, who is Ojibwa. “I turned to alcohol when I was 16 and tried to subdue the pain I felt fighting in hockey all the time, fighting at school all the time.”“The scary part about it was people involved with our team were directly involved with the education system,” he said. “Not once did they ask, ‘How come you’re not going to school?’ They just let me be.“Put my brain on cruise control,” Nolan said.
Nolan then returned to the Greyhounds as coach and helped the team to three Memorial Cup appearances, culminating with a victory in 1993.
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