Bill Peters won’t soon forget the offseason of 2018, a transitional blur.



April 20 – resigns his post as coach of the Carolina Hurricanes



April 23 – signs on as coach of the Calgary Flames



April 26 – departs for Riga, Latvia, to begin preparations for the world championship in Denmark



May 20 – settles for fourth place after Team Canada falls to the Americans in the bronze-medal match



May 30 – fills out his Flames staff by adding Ryan Huska and Geoff Ward, who join holdovers Martin Gelinas, Jamie Pringle, Jordan Sigalet, Ryan van Asten



Somehow, in the midst of the whirlwind summer, he manages to carve out for himself and wife Denise a stretch of well-needed vacation time – Christina Lake, B.C. – before strapping himself onto the Saddledome hot seat.



“Well, the last three or four months have been busy – but a good busy,” Peters said the other day, a couple of...