Awkward situation for the Flames and Bill Peters. What Peters said 10 years ago was definitely wrong, but appears to be one time thing. We would probably have heard something if there was more cases of it. I don't necessarily believe he tried to ruin Aliu's career. Heard nothing that backs up the accusation. According to Brindamour, his cases of physical abuse in the Hurricanes organization stopped after they had an internal meeting.
Treliving has said there wasn't anything like this occuring while he's been with the Flames. It appears that Peters has already improved on how he coaches the players. Probably still a hard ass but nothing necessarily wrong with that.
I totally understand the Flames having to get rid of him, because of the public outrage, but it wasn't really fair for them to deal with this issue. If Peters was fired it should have occurred in his previous organizations. Which is why Peters will most likely get the majority of his contract paid out to him.
I suspect Peters will find his way back in the NHL in a coaching capacity sometime in the future once this blows over. While what he did was wrong I don't think it was so outrageous that it would get him banned from coaching again in the NHL again.
It will be interesting to see what happens to Laviolette and Crawford now. Do these cases conveniently get ignored or are they both also removed from their positions?
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