Peter Esdale

Peter Esdale is a retired ice hockey head coach who had been in charge at both American International and Ferris State.

Career Esdale was raised in Edmonton and attended Ohio State University on a hockey scholarship. He also coached AIC's soccer and tennis teams. In 1974, he returned to Canada as athletic director at Notre Dame University College. During this time he also played for the Nelson Maple Leafs. In 1976, he became the athletic director and men's hockey coach at Mount Royal College. In 1977, he took a teaching and coaching position at the University of Alberta, where he won two national titles as an assistant hockey coach and one as head soccer coach. In 1980, he became the head hockey coach at Dalhousie Tigers. A year later Esdale announced his retirement from coaching to become a sales rep for Procter & Gamble.

Esdale returned to coaching after a one year absence as an assistant at the University of Alberta. During the 1993–94 season, he was co-coach of the Tampa Bay Tritons of Roller Hockey International. He then spent one season as interim head coach at the University of Alberta while Billy Moores was on a leave of absence to coach in Japan. Moores did not return after his year away, but Esdale chose not to stay on as coach due to his commitments as manager of a racquet club. He was the inaugural coach of the Tupelo T-Rex, but was replaced after a 1–11 start.

Head coaching record

† Midseason replacement