Coaching legend Ted Nolan is heading the Hall of Fame.
The local hockey product is one of two prolific figures from Garden River First Nation who will receive the Order of Sport — Canada’s highest honour in the sporting world — and become members of the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
The other inductee will be talented softball pitcher Darren Zack, who earned multiple accolades with Team Canada.
Nolan played hockey in both the junior and professional ranks prior to taking up coaching, eventually leading the Soo Greyhounds to the Memorial Cup championship in 1993.
He later went on to the NHL, where he won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year in 1997 as bench boss of the Buffalo Sabres.
More recently, Nolan released a memoir — Life in Two Worlds: A Coach's Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back — in which he detailed his lived experiences with racism as an Anishinaabe person in the game of hockey.
Nolan talked in detail about the book, and his career, during an appearance last year on our Inside the Village podcast. You can watch the full interview HERE.
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