And I said to myself, 'Wow!' Irving Regional Centre sits at the end of what since 2016 has been Sean Couturier Avenue. The Couturiers were living in Phoenix, where Sylvain scored 50 goals for the IHL Roadrunners in 1990-91, when their first of two sons was born, Dec. 7, 1992. There's 250 people in the town. By the time his son was 14 and a high-school honor student at Ecole Secondaire Nepisiquit, with a spectacular year of Midget under his belt, his father felt it was time to intensify the hockey education. Eventually, Derkatch noted, he adjusted socially too,  joking and talking with the guys on the long bus rides Notre Dame's isolation mandated, going into Regina (a 45-minute drive) with them for movies or meals. During the winter, when it wasn't official at the arena, they went looking for ice wherever they could find it. "I was unbelievably shocked. "But he worked hard in the defensive end. Sagittarius Named Sean #12. But there he was, a rough, tough strong player. "Most of Sean's friends left for university and didn't come back. ", "He's well-rounded," said Couturier's father, Sylvain, who played briefly in the NHL. Associated With. Try a deep search to uncover even more personal info. Right winger Jaromir Jagr was his teammate on the Flyers. It's hardly surprising that the Flyers center has been one of the NHL's best two-way players this season. Even at 10 he was making adult decisions. "He was still Atom age but he was so good they let him stay. His father Sylvain Couturier was a left wing in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings. Available on Google Play and the App Store. "But at that age you can't tell what will happen.". K.C. "He began to realize that he was there with a bunch of kids that had the same mind-set in terms of trying to excel.". Sean knew no one and coming from French Canada, it was quite an adjustment.". Possible Associates Laurence Forget Dionne could have been associated with Beverly E Thomas. "[Reaching the NHL] is what he had in mind from the time he was small," said his father, now the general manager of Bathurst's Quebec Junior Major Hockey League (QJMHL) team, the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. His early life, much of it occurring in this place whose 12,275 residents are almost exactly divided between French and English, was a lesson in equilibrium. His father, Sylvain Couturier, says Sean “was an OK skater, never the best. "He was smart, coachable, willing to learn, with good hockey sense and good puck skills," said Derkatch. "But it was tough on him and tough on us too. A high-scoring left-winger, Sylvain grew up in a Montreal suburb.