Former Flames player accuses Bill Peters of racist comments

CALGARY (660 NEWS) – A former Flames player is accusing head coach Bill Peters of uttering racist comments.

In a series of tweets during the Flames-Penguins’ game Monday, Akim Aliu said Bill Peters “dropped the N-bomb several times” towards him in the dressing room in his rookie year.

Aliu also claimed Peters “wrote a letter to John McDonough and Stan Bowman to have me sent down to the ECHL.”

Flames GM Brad Treliving said he has been made aware of the tweet:

“I haven’t had a chance to sit down with Bill or our people internally to talk about this and to get to the bottom of this,” Treliving said after the game. “We take these matters very, very seriously.”

Treliving said he won’t make any further comments on the accusations until he has met with Peters.

Akim Aliu had two short stints with the Flames in 2011 and 2012.

https://twitter.com/NHLFlames/status/1199166641877086208

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