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.
Barry Petchesky follows:
At his season post-mortem press conference yesterday, Kings GM Dean Lombardi disputed only one part of the report: the date. Lombardi says it happened back in February, not in the past two weeks. He also claimed it happened in Tampa, which would have been the Kings’ first win of an eight-game winning streak—I’m not sure how that syncs with the players expecting a post-loss tirade from Sutter.
Indeed.
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