Trip of a lifetime, on the road with the Detroit Red Wings

For the past 16 years, the National Hockey League’s Detroit Red Wings have held a traditional Fathers/Mentors trip, where players and coaching staff invite their fathers, brothers, or mentors on a road trip with the team.

The Assistant Coach of the Red Wings is Killam-raised Bill (Pete) Peters, and he originally asked his dad, also Bill, to come along. Unfortunately, wife Irene had hurt her knee, and he didn’t want to leave her.

Both Bills had someone in mind to take his place, and Killam’s Greg Kueber soon got the call.

Greg and the younger Peters had grown up together and kept in touch as Peters moved all over the US, where he was coaching bigger and bigger teams, from the WHL Western Confer-ence winning Spokane Chiefs, to the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs, now to the Red Wings, with some stops in between. When he called to offer the trip, Kueber said he’d think about it.

Kueber says senior Bill called him too, “Greg, you have to go, it’s the trip of a lifetime,” he told him.

Read the rest of the story in the March 12, 2013 edition of The Community Press, on newsstands now!