Kerry Goulet is a proud citizen of the Red River Metis Nation and an honoured member of the Manitoba Indigenous Sports Hall of Fame.

In a sense, he is also Metis royalty. Goulet Park in Winnipeg is named after his family. He is the nephew of Metis scholar and author George R.D. Goulet, who wrote: The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied and is the great-great-great nephew of Elzéar Goulet, who was second-in-command of Louis Riel’s Métis militia under Ambroise-Didyme Lépine.

Kerry, of course, doesn’t have an army to command, but he is a hockey coach and while one might easily guess that his leadership skills are genetic, it is not something he’d claim.

However, to be fair, he is a very successful hockey coach.

Three seasons ago, Goulet got on a plane headed to Melbourne, Austra

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