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Kings Players Have Productive Start to Summer Vacation

Reports of friction between the Los Angeles Kings and coach Darryl Sutter have been making the rounds for a couple days now (and everyone’s probably overreacting to them), but it seemed pretty clear that there’s no sort of rift between the players themselves. However, yesterday may have indicated a deeper issue in the locker room.

Drew Doughty started things off innocently enough…

Until Trevor Lewis decided a dig at his paying habits was grounds for this:

Which, of course, led to this:

Duster? Did you miss the saga of Top Line Trevor?

Anyway, after Lewis dug up one more Doughty snapshot…

Andy Andreoff had some kind parting words for his linemate, Kyle Clifford

… and his best friend on the team, Brayden McNabb.

Finally, Marian Gaborik stepped in with a late swing at fellow Slovakian Andrej Sekera. I’m sure his inclusion of the hashtag “#hopetoseeyouherenextyear” makes it all better.

Tough @dolcegabbana tshirt my brother! Lol. #hopetoseeyouherenextyear

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Judging by the retweets of judges Anze Kopitar, Alec Martinez, Jarret Stoll, Tyler Toffoli, and Martin Jones, Trevor Lewis got the win in this round.

Will this tension serve as a distraction going forward?! Stay tuned for our 3000-word column.

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