The Los Angeles Kings staged a shocking protest at some point during their disappointing season, according to a report in the New York Post on Saturday.
L.A. Kings locked coach out of locker room, per report
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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.
A separate report has since denied the event taking place last week, quoting the Kings GM Dean Lombardi as saying that it actually occurred in February. Either way, it's clear the team's players were fed up with their coach to a point that we are not used to seeing.
