Former NHL player Akim Aliu met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and other league executives on Tuesday in Toronto just days after Aliu’s allegations of racist language led to the resignation of Flames coach Bill Peters.
"It was a tough week, but we had some great discussion," Aliu said in a statement after the meeting. "They couldn't have been kinder or more receptive to the message that we're trying to bring."
Aliu, who played under Peters with the Blackhawks’ Rockford IceHogs of the AHL during the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons, tweeted on Nov. 25 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.