{"id":62614,"date":"2019-11-29T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=62614"},"modified":"2019-11-29T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:40:56","slug":"calgary-flames-bill-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/11\/29\/calgary-flames-bill-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames Head Coach Bill Peters Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have officially announced that Head Coach <strong>Bill Peters <\/strong>is no longer with the Flames. This comes after a team <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/11\/26\/report-calgary-flames-investigating-head-coach-bill-peters\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation<\/a> into racially insensitive remarks he made towards former Flames forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/aliuak01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akim Aliu<\/a><\/strong>. The team had a press conference on Friday morning to announce the news. In that, General Manager Brad Treliving announced Peters submitted a letter of resignation which was accepted immediately.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brad Treliving says Bill Peters sent a letter of resignation, which was accepted. Peters is \u201cno longer a member of the Calgary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Flames<\/a> effectively immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1200468089571291138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bill Peters Out<\/h2>\n<p>These reports and subsequent investigations have dominated conversation this week. Peters has since made an apology that Aliu called &#8220;misleading, insincere, and concerning.&#8221; Additionally, reports have come out that Peters may have also physically punched and\/or kicked his players in additionally to verbally berating them.<\/p>\n<p>Peters was likely on the chopping block already but these sorts of events add extra motivation to move on from the 54-year-old coach. He has been the Flames&#8217; coach since 2018-19 with a 62-37 record. His overall NHL record is 199-175 split between Calgary and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>. It is highly unlikely he will receive any job offers for some time in light of what has come out recently.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Flames have already played one game without its now-former coach. Geoff Ward led the team in its recent overtime victory over the Buffalo Sabres. That victory moved the Flames into a tie for the second wild card in the Western Conference. It will take serious effort to make the playoffs but radical turnarounds happen in many seasons. Last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> are one such example while the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> are playing much better since <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/11\/20\/toronto-maple-leafs-fire-head-coach-mike-babcock\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">firing<\/a> <strong>Mike Babcock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This firing shows that overly abusive behaviour will not be tolerated. The NHL has focused a lot of time and energy into ensuring hockey is an inclusive sport for players and fans of all backgrounds. Bill Peters has been fired for some of the same <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/11\/11\/hockey-night-in-canada-don-cherry-fired-by-sportsnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasons<\/a> as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cherrdo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Cherry<\/a><\/strong>. Intolerance such as theirs has no place in the modern world when the NHL is trying to create the most inclusive sport it can.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"6gDCgLfDTpJ4zPHZsiV4rg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1172526421\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'6gDCgLfDTpJ4zPHZsiV4rg',sig:'UGoeUz7VQtWzgT1hyyZYRWbAxmYRGDfh2JyqXmJ3Vqg=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1172526421',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames have officially announced that Head Coach Bill Peters is no longer with the Flames. This comes after a team investigation into racially insensitive remarks he made towards former Flames forward Akim Aliu. The team had a press conference on Friday morning to announce the news. In that, General Manager Brad Treliving announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":62621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34],"tags":[4536,836,103,37,38],"class_list":["post-62614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flames","category-news","tag-akim-aliu","tag-bill-peters","tag-calgary-flames","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}