Blacklisted head coach reportedly lands new job and Akim Aliu’s comments make it way worse…

The WHL is stirring controversy on Wednesday morning as it is believed that disgraced and blacklisted head coach Bill Peters is on the verge of landing a new job as the bench boss of the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

Insider Frank Seravalli reports that Peters is potentially next head coach in WHL Lethbridge despite the fact that he never apologized to Akim Aliu for his actions.

Back in 2019, Peters resigned from his job as head coach of the Calgary Flames following a scandal in which he was alleged to have used racially charged language with Aliu during both Peters’ and Aliu’s time with the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs.

Aliu confirmed to Seravalli that he never received an apology - 13 years after the incident, and nearly 4 years after it became public and cost him his NHL head coaching job.

We’ll see if this report comes to fruition, but we may not have heard the last of this especially if Peters does land the job, but refuses to make things right with Aliu.

On Wednesday, this is what Aliu shared on the situation: 

Is there no one else qualified to coach in WHL?...

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