UPDATE:
According to a new report, Flames GM Brad Treliving says Bill Peters has not been fired, the investigation is ongoing.
UPDATE: @NHLFlames GM Brad Treliving says Bill Peters has not been fired, the investigation is ongoing.
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) November 26, 2019
From earlier:
According to reports, the Calgary Flames have fired head coach Bill Peters following allegations that he used the racial slurs against a former member of the Calgary Flames’ organization, Akim Aliu.
https://twitter.com/MikeInBuffalo/status/1199385965443375105
Peters, who had been the head coach of the Flames since 2018, was an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings in 2011.
Here are the tweets Aliu sent out on Monday night, accusing Peters of making racial slurs towards him.
Not very surprising the things we’re hearing about Babcock. Apple doesn’t fall far from the Tree, same sort of deal with his protege in YYC. Dropped the N bomb several times towards me in the dressing room in my rookie year because he didn’t like my choice of music. First one to
— Akim Aliu (@Dreamer_Aliu78) November 26, 2019
admit I rebelled against him. Wouldn’t you? And instead of remedying the situation, he wrote a letter to John McDonough and Stan Bowman to have me sent down to the ECHL. 20 year old on pace for 20 goals in his first pro year with zero PP/PK time was off to a great start in his
— Akim Aliu (@Dreamer_Aliu78) November 26, 2019
