Xavier Savage is sidelined for eight weeks, while the Raiders hope to revive their season during an important game in Perth.
Xavier Savage will spend up to eight weeks on the sideline with a syndesmosis injury, so while the Canberra Raiders are searching for something to turn their season around, Hudson Young figures they could use a flight to Perth "as our little Vegas trip ... without the elevator stuff."
Wind back a little more than 12 months. Young and teammate Morgan Smithies wandered across a road to a waiting media pack after the pair had been involved in a scuffle inside an elevator in Las Vegas, where an inflatable baseball bat had been mistaken by hotel staff for a weapon.
It was the story that lit the fuse for the rugby league media cycle, even if it was a mountain made out of a molehill in the Nevada desert. And, to a degree, it galvanised the Raiders and kickstarted their run to the club's first minor premiership in 35 years.
Which brings us to Perth, where the Raiders have touched down, ticked off a selfie with a quokka on Rottnest Island, and turned their attention to fixing a 1-4 start to the season which has them sitting 16th on the ladder.