Couturier spent his first nine years in large American and European cities, the rest of his childhood in this small Canadian town on Chaleur Bay. He attended the French and the English high schools in Bathurst. He starred at both center and less frequently on defense, then at 15 departed to hone his talents in the wildly disparate provinces of Saskatchewan and Quebec. Even his name — the French Couturier paired with the Irish Sean — reflects the ying-yang nature of both his upbringing and his game.