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Aliu calls Flames

coach's apology

'misleading, insincere'

ford IceHogs, the Chica-
go Blackhawks' top farm
team, in 2009-10. Aliu, who
was born in Nigeria but
raised in Ukraine and Can-
ada, said Peters "dropped
the N bomb several times"
because he didn't like the
player's choice of music.
Peters did not coach the
Flames on Wednesday
night when Calgary won in
Buffalo against the Sabres.
In this April 7, 2012, file photo, Afterward, Treliving said
Calgary Flames' Akim Aliu, a the Flames' investigation
New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist (30) stops a shot on goal during the third period Nigerian-born Canadian, cel-
of an NHL hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in New York. ebrates his goal during first was ongoing.
The Rangers won 3-2. period NHL hockey action The Flames were sched-
Associated Press against the Anaheim Ducks, uled to be off Thursday be-
in Calgary, Alberta. fore returning to practice
Continued from Page 18 ed on Twitter during the rok's pass and went in on Associated Press Friday in Calgary. Their next
FLAMES 3, SABRES 2, OT third period. Peters added a 2-on-0 break on Nashville game is Saturday against
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Elias the incident was made in a goalie Juuse Saros. Schmidt By The Associated Press the Ottawa Senators.
Lindholm scored on a moment of frustration and fed a cross-ice pass to Akim Aliu is not happy New Jersey teammates
wraparound 1:17 into over- did not reflect his personal Stastny, who buried a one- with the apology Calgary Wayne Simmonds and
time to lift Calgary over Buf- values. timer for the winner. Flames coach Bill Peters is- P.K. Subban, who are both
falo. Peters said he regretted RANGERS 3, HURRICANES 2 sued for a racial slur he al- black, were asked about
Matthew Tkachuk had a the incident and apolo- NEW YORK (AP) — Adam legedly used when both the Aliu-Peters situation be-
goal and set up the winner gized to anyone negatively Fox had a goal and an were in the minors 10 years fore the Devils faced the
for the Flames, still playing affected by it. assist, Henrik Lundqvist ago. The former NHL player Montreal Canadiens on
without embattled coach The letter was released stopped 41 shots and New released his own statement Thursday night.
Bill Peters. TJ Brodie also while Peters is away from York held off Carolina. Thursday on Twitter, saying "I can guarantee you every
had a goal and an assist, the team as the Flames Mika Zibanejad scored in he found Peters' statement single black hockey player
and David Rittich stopped and the NHL conduct an his return after missing 13 a day earlier acknowledg- has been called a racial
34 shots as Calgary im- investigation into the mat- games with an upper body ing that he used offensive slur at some point in their
proved to 2-0-1 in its past ter. injury. Brendan Smith also language to be "mislead- career, whether it's been
three games, and with as- Jimmy Vesey and Victor had a goal and Artemi ing, insincere and concern- younger or older," Sim-
sociate coach Geoff Ward Olofsson scored for the Sa- Panarin added two assists ing." monds said. "It's something
behind the bench. bres, who dropped to 2-8- to help the Rangers build Aliu said he has accepted people don't like to talk
Peters has been accused 3 in their past 13 games a 3-0 lead in the first pe- an invitation from the NHL about because it makes
of using racists slurs against — and after starting the riod and improve to 9-4-1 in to discuss the situation and them uncomfortable. In
a Nigerian-born player 10 season 9-2-1. Linus Ullmark their last 14 games. would not comment further light of this coming out,
years ago while the two made 26 saves. Panarin has at least one until after the meeting. hopefully this can do some
were in the minors with GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, PRED- point in 15 of the last 16 Peters issued a letter good for the hockey com-
the Chicago Blackhawks. ATORS 3, OT games. Wednesday night to mul- munity and shed some light
Hurricanes coach Rod NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Dzingel and Warren tiple media outlets, apolo- on it." Simmonds was part
Brind'Amour on Wednes- Max Pacioretty tied it with Foegele scored for the Hur- gizing to the Flames and of a racist incident in 2011
day backed another for- less than a second left in ricanes, who had won two general manager Brad when a fan threw a ba-
mer player's allegation that regulation and Paul Stastny straight. Petr Mrazek fin- Treliving. The letter did not nana on the ice during his
Peters kicked and punched scored at 1:52 of overtime ished with 22 saves. mention the Nigerian-born shootout attempt during
players on the bench dur- to give Vegas a comeback MAPLE LEAFS 6, RED WINGS Aliu or specify the words a preseason game in Lon-
ing his time as Carolina victory over Nashville. 0 Peter used. He called it an don, Ontario, when he was
coach. Mark Stone, Reilly Smith DETROIT (AP) — Andreas "isolated and immediately playing for the Philadel-
Peters acknowledged us- and Pacioretty each had Johnsson had two goals regrettable incident." phia Flyers. The Aliu-Peters
ing offensive language a goal and an assist for and an assist, and Toronto The statement drew criti- incident raises its own set of
in dealing with forward the Golden Knights, who routed skidding Detroit for cism on social media. concerns, Simmonds said.
Akim Aliu in writing a letter snapped a three-game its third straight win under Former NHL player Georges "You never want to hear
of apology addressed to losing streak. Malcolm Sub- new coach Sheldon Keefe. Laraque tweeted: "The @ things like that," he said.
Flames general manager ban made 31 saves for his Frederik Andersen made NHLFlames and the @NHL "Those things are extremely
Brad Treliving, and ob- first win of the season. 25 saves for his 17th career can now finally conclude discouraging for people
tained by TSN, a Canadian Mikael Granlund and Matt shutout. their investigation and fire of African descent and of
sports cable network. Duchene both contributed Tyson Barrie and William him, what more can they color. Something like that
Without specifically refer- a goal and an assist for the Nylander each had a goal need after this...?" happens to you and (the)
encing the words he used, Predators. Ryan Ellis also and an assist. John Tava- Aliu tweeted Monday that one person that's doing it
Peters wrote his comments scored and Roman Josi res and Travis Dermott also Peters directed racial slurs to you controls kind of your
to Aliu were the source of added two assists. scored, and Ilya Mikheyev toward him when both destiny, it's definitely some-
both anger and disap- In overtime, Nate Schmidt and Morgan Rielly added were with the American thing that needs to be
pointment in the letter post- intercepted Calle Jarnk- two assists apiece.q Hockey League's Rock- explored.q