Blackhawks select Peters to coach Rockford Icehogs

Posted July 31, 2008 11:00 pm

Daily Herald Staff Report

The Chicago Blackhawks have named Bill Peters to coach the Rockford IceHogs, the team's American Hockey League affiliate.

Peters, 43, joins the IceHogs after serving the past three years as head coach of the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League, where he led the Chiefs to the 2008 Memorial Cup Championship. He was also recently named head coach for Canada's National Men's World Junior Under-18 team, which will compete in the 2008 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Aug. 12-16 in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The Alberta native is third on the Chiefs franchise list with 115 wins and 217 games coached. Under Peters, the Chiefs improved in wins and points over the past three years, including a 14-win and 27-point improvement from 2006-07 to 2007-08.

"We've very excited to have Bill Peters join the Blackhawks organization," said Mark Bernard, general manager of the minor league affiliates for the Blackhawks. "He not only has a tremendous amount of experience working under Stanley Cup winning coach Mike Babcock with the Spokane Chiefs, but he's made his own success as Spokane."

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