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| birth_place = Three Hills, AB, CAN | years as a coach = 1996-present | years as an NHL coach = 2011-present }} William Robert "Bill" Peters (born January 13, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). ==Early life and career== Peters was born in Three Hills, Alberta, where he spent the first 10 years of his life living on a cattle and grain farm. Afterwards he moved to Killam, and started to play both ice hockey and baseball. At the age of fifteen, Peters broke his knee as his bicycle was run over by a car, an injury that hindered his intention to play professionally.〔(Alberta trip is a homecoming for Canes coach Bill Peters | News & Observer )〕 He only played college hockey, two seasons for the Augustana Vikings, and one for the Red Deer College Kings, where he won the 1989 Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference championship under future mentor Mike Babcock.〔(ACAC Men's Hockey • News )〕 Afterwards he begun his managerial career coaching Killam's Junior B team at the age of 24, before moving to Texas following an assignment of his nurse wife. Peters helped open San Antonio's first ice hockey rink, and held hockey schools every summer across the United States and Canada.〔(Top Chief | News | The Pacific Northwest Inlander | News, Politics, Music, Calendar, Events in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and the Inland Northwest )〕 He also played his only game as a professional in Texas, as a last-minute replacement in 1996 for the Central Hockey League's San Antonio Iguanas.〔(Bill Peters introduced as new coach of Carolina Hurricanes - NHL.com - News )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Peters (ice hockey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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