Canada expected to tab Hurricanes' Peters as World Championship coach

Bill Peters will be coaching a different shade of red all summer.

After a second consecutive season of squeezing strong underlying numbers from a retooling roster, the Carolina Hurricanes coach has earned the chance to guide Canada at next month's World Championship in Russia, TSN's Darren Dreger reports.

It will be an international tuneup of sorts for Peters, who will also work on Mike Babcock's staff for the World Cup in September.

With a 52.1 Corsi For percentage, Peters has engineered the NHL's eighth-best possession team since being appointed to the Hurricanes bench.