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Canberra Raiders players cause hotel security incident in Las Vegas after night out.

Fox League

Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies were two of many NRL players who had taken the opportunity to hit the town in Las Vegas before knuckling down for their season opener at Allegiant Stadium.

Players were allowed to do so, having been trusted as adults to behave, so they had not gone rogue.

Unlike their counterparts, the Canberra Raiders duo found trouble when a scuffle back at their hotel - Hilton Resorts World - blew up into a security incident that had them briefly evicted.

Here are the bizarre details of what happened, according to reports from Vegas.

Young and Smithies returned to their hotel having gone out drinking, on Thursday night local time; not long after arriving in Vegas.

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Canberra players involved in late-night scuffle in Las Vegas, won't be penalized for incident.

Wide World of Sports

Warring Canberra stars Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies won't be sent home despite the NRL's worst nightmare - a late night stoush in Las Vegas.

The pair scuffled in the lift of the team's plush hotel after a boozy night out on Thursday.

The incident occured after a malfunction in the hotel's computer system that saw irate players having to wait hours in the check-in queue.

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Ricky Stuart handled crisis in Las Vegas well, prioritizing game and club over player protection.

The Sydney Morning Herald

At close to 9.30pm in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Ricky Stuart was enjoying a quiet beer with his coaching staff at a bar at the team hotel in Resorts World.

He stepped outside the bar to take a phone call from Nine colleague Danny Weidler, who had just heard the same thing as this columnist about the brawling Raiders.

After he got off the phone, this masthead approached Stuart about the incident. What happened next was a lesson in crisis management to clubs who have often prioritised the protection of the players over the good of the game and their clubs.

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