The Carolina Hurricanes are staring at a seventh straight summer without postseason hockey, but their coach is going to have his hands full nonetheless.
Hockey Canada announced on Tuesday that Canes coach Bill Peters will serve as head coach for Team Canada at the 2016 IIHF World Hockey Championships in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia from May 6-22. Peters, who was previously announced as an assistant coach on Mike Babcock's Canada staff for the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto this September, served as an assistant coach at the 2015 Worlds, and this is his first time taking the helm of a Canadian senior team in international competition.