Kings News: Kings players tired of Sutter?

[DAkings20]

Don't know if this deserves its own thread as Brooks can be hit or miss, but anybody else see this?

Slap Shots has been told by two sources that the Kings locked the door to their locker room following a defeat on the road within the last two weeks so that Sutter could not get in and deliver what the players apparently expected to be another in a series of lectures/tirades.

As the tale was told, after Sutter finally tracked down an arena operative to unlock the door, he was greeted by three heavy waste receptacles lined up as barricade to what had become an empty room.

Thus, it would be no stretch to suggest tension between the team and the coach, who led the Kings to those two Cups, was a significant issue as L.A. went down the stretch before their elimination Thursday night in Calgary following a shocking defeat two nights earlier in Edmonton, of all places.
Imagine. Players, for once, engineering a lockout.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/11/calendar-coach-exhaust-defending-champion-kings/

Click to read more...

 

[KopitarFAN]

Was gonna read it, then I saw NY Post.

 

[kingskring]

Don't know if this deserves its own thread as Brooks can be hit or miss, but anybody else see this?


http://nypost.com/2015/04/11/calendar-coach-exhaust-defending-champion-kings/

if this is true, I am disgusted with the players... way to act like spoiled brats ********

 

[ADifferentTim]

Really, kicking the LA Kings while they're down, huh, New York media?

 

[DocWest]

Holy **** if that's true. This team is in bigger trouble than I thought.

 

[Jason Lewis]

Two things here:



Larry Brooks


New York Post


Move along.

 

[ADifferentTim]

Guys, NY Post has the credibility of the National Enquirer. Don't bother.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

No surprise to me whatsoever that this is coming out of New York right as the regular season ends.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Don't believe a word of it.

 

[cali101]

interesting how detailed it is...

 

[kingsfan]

Sutter rarely yells at his players, nevermind doing it game after game. And honestly, I can't think of one player we have that would do that, nevermind the team as a collective. That article comes across as per BS based on everything I've ever read/seen about how Sutter operates and the type of players we have.

 

[moosehead81]

That's why Mike Richards sat today- friggin' ring-leader for sure.

 

[Little Psycho]

New York Post is garbage

 

[SFKingshomer]

Sutter has lost rooms before but I don't believe the article.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

interesting how detailed it is...

If you only say one source told you something you'll be laughed off. So you say two separate sources. Nobody could ever question that.

 

[Scottkmlps]

Larry Brooks? Lol. That is all.

He's still upset the Rangers let the snow piles miss the flight to L.A. for game 5.

 

[moosehead81]

On the other hand, if there's any veracity to the story at all, it might explain some things. Just saying.

 

[Nizar]

Leave us alone, Larry Brooks.

 

[ADifferentTim]

Just look at Larry Brooks' Twitter account, for reference.

 

[Sandino]

On the other hand, if there's any veracity to the story at all, it might explain some things. Just saying.

I'm sure there is going to be a lot skepticism here on the boards but I'm going to keep an open mind about it.

 

[KINGS17]

Brooks is a horse's ass, and when I ran into him in the restaurant in the PR section during the 2012 Finals, I told him so.

 

[damacles1156]

Deosnt matter what the Kings players are tired of. This core already got one coach fired. They won't get another.

Lombardi will start moving them out before he moves Sutter. Which will start this off-season with some vets already moving out.

 

[Telos]

Just sounds too unlike this team. It would have to be backed by something more reputable before I believed that happened.

 

[DocWest]

I hope Sutter is still here next season. I'm not ready to say goodbye to him just yet.

 

[MsMeow]

James Duthie mentioned the other day that Sutter was doing the usual things to press buttons and flip the switch but that the team was exhausted from all the play the past 3 years. Maybe Sutter pissed them off and they really did this. If they did I don't see it as a bad thing, stuff happens. Doesn't mean they've tuned him out.