Is it really toxic on Nashville?
B/R Open Ice: Frank Seravalli says the Nashville Predators are the most toxic organization in the NHL, from top to bottom.
“They responded for you after you played a significant card, you used a bullet as one option in your line here to try and get this team back on track, which is blast the players in the media. Okay, so he did that. 11 seconds in is how they answered.
I’ve talked for weeks repeatedly about how the environment around the Nashville Predators is the most toxic in the NHL, from top to bottom. No one is in a good place in the Nashville Predators organization, and they don’t like the way that things have been handled.
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The play then isn’t to put your players on blast publicly, that’s not going to go over well. And we saw the response, quite clearly on Monday night in Nashville. It’s a brutal situation, and I don’t know where they go from here.”
Alex Daugherty: Predators GM Barry Trotz said Seravalli’s report is “not very accurate.”
Trotz about the report, and he said “he talked to Roman Josi and other key players and they report the opposite. Says he knows what toxic looks like and this team ain’t it.”
Teams will be interested in Blake Coleman. He knows he and others are in the rumor mill
Wes Gilbertson of the Calgary Herald: 33-year-old Blake Coleman has one year left at $4.9 million left on his contract, and a 10-team trade list, and has been one of the more reliable forwards for the Calgary Flames. If, the Flames are selling, Coleman will be a top target of teams, and he hears the rumors.
“You hear it, obviously, but I think that’s just part of the job,” Coleman told Postmedia before departing on this five-game road-trip. “You put yourselves in this kind of situation (with a poor start). There’s really not a name I haven’t heard. Yeah, some get thrown out more than others obviously. Thankfully, I guess, I learned a lesson early in the league that anything can happen on any day. I was in New Jersey and they told me that I was going to be part of the core and the future, and two weeks later I was traded. So if the right offer comes across for anybody …
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“I was a young guy with a good contract. I thought I was safe. They were talking about all the old guys and I was the first one out the door, so … It is what it is. People have a job to do and, honestly, it keeps my family entertained, my parents and all that. I just mute the chat and just go play.”
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