Kings News: Kings players tired of Sutter?

[Herby]

Bernstein's wrong again...He should know better. No player worth his salt will talk about what happens in 'the room'

I find it funny that Bernstein is universally thought of here as a joke writer, yet he was used to discredit this story, and ofcourse it turned out Bernstein was clueless yet again.

I wonder how Bernstein must feel knowing that the players he talked to completely lied to him, or maybe he didn't speak to any players and just lied to everyone and doesn't give a crap.

 

[KingsFan7824]

All gossip and projection. It's so much more fun when they make the playoffs. Less time for all kinds of indirect and external analysis.

 

[MynameisKing]

Well the blowup worked because they got themselves back in the race following that trip.

Yeah, I glad it did. It would be disastrous if it didn't!

 

[bob77]

To add to what I said earlier, I don't care if they "locked" him out. Could be a minute, 5, 30, 60. The point is that there was energy in the building, and some things were aired out in all likelihood, which at the time was great !! I'd be more disturbed if someone wrote a story this late in the year saying everybody was all huggy and kissy face right through the end of the year!!? Anybody that has ever played knows things get a little tenuous at times, so it's like, so fxxxing what!! If anything, it was healthy and aired out the room, whatever it actually was???!!!!! I'm glad to hear this!! Makes me think behind the scenes they were trying to really work it all out, not just the standard bs I front of reporters , like, well, we are really going to put in a great effort tomorrow and really work hard!!! Players don't sit around like that when they are losing!! It can get like x and o s and why are you doing you're job, etc. and different people seeing different things. It's like watching someone get gunned down and five different eye witnesses say it was a white dude, white chick, black two, and one Asian. Doesnt mean **** didn't happen, right, and it doesn't mean **** is right.

 

[cali101]

lombardi verified that this is true:

Lombardi verified a New York Post report that players locked out coach Darryl Sutter from the dressing room, and said it occurred after a Feb.7 game at the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Kings won that game, 4-2.

Asked if he was troubled by it, Lombardi said, "No, and here's why: I could look at it and say, 'That's when we won eight in a row, so let's do it more often.' In terms of what actually happened, maybe (players) don't have to go to that extreme, but theoretically I have no problem with it."

Lombardi went on to say that raising the emotional level is something that has to come within the room and "obviously one of the problems this year was just that, for whatever reason, we weren't where we needed to be mentally."

Lombardi said there wasn't any internal conflict in the dressing room. Outside the room, observers thought the Kings could turn it on when they needed to, but Lombardi said it was a fallacy.

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http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=762932

 

[taz346]

I think people are reading way too much into that statement of his. He didn't say he'd be back as coach of the Kings. Of course he's being sarcasting about the invisable part. Meaning he'll be seen in Sept. anywhere.

 

[Bee Sheriff]

Of all the Sutterisms, that is one of the best.

lirl

 

[Ron*]

lombardi verified that this is true:

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http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=762932

Interesting that he used the car analogy again, revving up, being out if gas, etc. I guess he didn't make car noises this time.

 

[kingsfan]

I get that sense too. There was just something off about this year's team. They didn't look as "together/close" as they were in previous years. There was the issue of Mike Richards fiasco on top of the Voynov disaster. Those things can eat at a team. In terms of opinions and loyalties "to" and "of" each other.

Didn't some report claim the Voynov issue happened at a team gathering at a players house? I could see that being a really divisive issue, especially amoungst the players wives/girlfriends and between the wives/girlfriends and the players if they had been at that same party.

....

I'm stealing that avatar for the playoffs.

 

[Herby]

Ron,

Did you apologize to Brooks, or did he tweet you back?

 

[Ron*]

Ron,

Did you apologize to Brooks, or did he tweet you back?

Niether. DL said the story was factually inaccurate. A reporter that doesn't fact-check and publishes without doing so is ethically-challenged.

 

[kingsfan28]

As the energy level waned, so did the emotional level. Lombardi also mentioned how difficult it was to film the EPIX show, "Road to the Stadium Series" at a time when the team was struggling. Despite the win in that game, it did the team no favors.

"It really got everybody to the breaking point," he said. "Nobody is happy and everybody is grumpy and there's a camera in your face."

When you're playing bad, nobody wants it filmed , especially for a four part mini-series. We saw how pissed Sutter got a few times between periods, so I imagine having a camera around, [and I'm sure there was lots left out] didn't go over too well.

 

[Reclamation Project]

The Kings have had players-only closed door meetings before. Nothing new.

The way it's being reported is inaccurate though. There is no rift between them.

 

[MynameisKing]

Didn't some report claim the Voynov issue happened at a team gathering at a players house? I could see that being a really divisive issue, especially amoungst the players wives/girlfriends and between the wives/girlfriends and the players if they had been at that same party.

Don't know. Hope they catch it on "Hockey Wives" where I learned that Dustin Brown gets lonely on road trips cuz no one hangs out, or atleast with him. Why? Don't know. Weather is bad? Coaches curfew? Married no fun? Boring city?

 

[Kurrilino]

The Kings have had players-only closed door meetings before. Nothing new.

On a road game with the coach in front of the door calling the ground keeper to open it ?????

Man you guys have faith.

 

[kingsholygrail]

On a road game with the coach in front of the door calling the ground keeper to open it ?????

Man you guys have faith.

We all know you want him fired. It's not happening. You've wanted him fired since 2012.

 

[Captain Mittens*]

Kurrilino, what if we offered you a quesadilla instead of Sutter's head?

 

[Reclamation Project]

Some of us see the bigger picture.

 

[gtwyc]

i think stolls head would suffice. @bad will hunting

 

[kingsholygrail]

i think stolls head would suffice. @bad will hunting

Stoll did say he wanted to come back in any role.

 

[gtwyc]

ahahaha

 

[kingsfan28]

Don't know. Hope they catch it on "Hockey Wives" where I learned that Dustin Brown gets lonely on road trips cuz no one hangs out, or atleast with him. Why? Don't know. Weather is bad? Coaches curfew? Married no fun? Boring city?

I made it through half an episode. The shows no different than any other professional athletes wives reality show. They make Parros's wife seem like a full on pouty diva.

 

[CowMix]

For a coach that has won 11 out of 12 playoff series with 2 stanely cups within basically only 3 full seasons coached with only one bad season is enough lose the room or get him fired.

 

[Pandaman11]

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/

Someone unleash John Tortorella

 

[YP44]

For a coach that has won 11 out of 12 playoff series with 2 stanely cups within basically only 3 full seasons coached with only one bad season is enough lose the room or get him fired.

I am concerned that maybe he has lost the room, however there is no way sutter is not back next year.
That said if LA gets off to a slow start it could mean the end of sutter. He will be in the hot seat to start the year