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The WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes plan to announce the hiring of Bill Peters as their head coach on Wednesday, Sportsnet can confirm.
The Hurricanes have scheduled a press conference for 12 pm ET / 10 am MT.
WHL pundit Gregg Drinnan was the first to report that the Hurricanes planned to sign Peters.
Peters, the former head coach of the Calgary Flames, resigned from the team in 2019 following allegations of racial abuse by Akim Aliu.
Peters allegedly directed a racial slur at Aliu “multiple times” while the two were together in the AHL. Aliu played for Peters when he was head coach of Chicago’s AHL affiliate Rockford IceHogs for five games in the 2008-09 season and 48 games in 2009-10. Aliu also appeared in 13 games for the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye in 2009-10.
Michal Jordan, who played for Peters with the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, also alleged that Peters kicked him and hit another unidentified player during a game.
The NHL said in 2021 that it had completed an investigation into Peters.
Following his resignation, Peters joined KHL side Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in April 2020 and was sacked in November 2022.
Peters will replace Brent Kisio, who accepted an assistant coaching job with the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights after eight seasons with the Hurricanes.
Peters has had two previous coaching stints in the WHL, with the Spokane Chiefs as an assistant from 1999 to 2002 and then as head coach from 2005 to 2008.
Peters, a 57-year-old native of Three Hills, Alta., had a 199-175 record as coach of Carolina and Calgary during a six-year NHL career.
– With archives from The Canadian Press.
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