Due to racism allegations, the coach Calgary Flames, Bill Peters, resigned. This was announced by the club from the North American hockey professional league NHL. On Monday, Canadian winger Akim Aliu claimed in social media to have been repeatedly confronted with racist comments during the 2009-10 season.
Aliu did not name Peters by name, but at the time he was playing at the Blackhawks farm team Rockford, where Peters worked as a coach. The 54-year-old apologized in a letter to Flame management on Wednesday for "insulting language that I used a decade ago in a professional environment."
"I know that my comments were the cause of anger and disappointment and I understand why, even though it was a one-time incident that I immediately regretted, I take responsibility for what I said," Peters said in the interview Write that was available to the television station Sportsnet.
Aliu, who completed only two NHL games in his career, last played in the underclass ECHL for the Orlando Solar Bears.
