During the Flames' 3-2 loss to the Penguins on Monday night at PPG Paints Arena, former NHL player Akim Aliu tweeted that current Flames head coach Bill Peters previously called him a racist slur several times.
Aliu, the Blackhawks' 2007 second-round pick, played for Peters during the 2009-10 season with the Blackhawks' AHL affiliate Rockford IceHogs.
Aliu, who was born in Nigeria, tweeted that Peters "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.