In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL.
It\'s an exploration of how a beloved sport can harbour subtle but devastating racism, of how a person can find purpose when opportunity and choice are stripped away, and of how focusing on what really matters can bring two worlds together..
But Life in Two Worlds is more than a story of succeeding against the odds.
It also tells of Ted\'s inspiring recovery and his eventual return to a job he loved.
Life in Two Worlds chronicles those controversial years in Buffalo--and recounts how being shut out from the NHL left Ted frustrated, angry, and so vulnerable he almost destroyed his own life.
Yet, the Sabres failed to re-sign their much-loved, award-winning coach.
By his second, they had won their first Northeast Division title in sixteen years.
After his initial year as head coach with the Sabres, the club was being called the hardest working team in professional sports.
First with the Soo Greyhounds and then with the Buffalo Sabres, Ted produced astonishing results.
But when his on-ice career ended, he discovered his true passion wasn\'t playing; it was coaching.
Ted proved he had what it took, joining the Detroit Red Wings in 1978.
Playing the game meant spending his Life in two Worlds: one in which he was loved and accepted and one where he was often told he didn\'t belong.
But poverty wasn\'t his biggest challenge.
What happened? Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big.
But he wouldn\'t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade.
In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL
