Barry Trotz responds to report that Predators environment is most toxic in NHL: 'I know what toxic is, and I don't feel we're there'

""[Predators players] responded for you after you played a significant card," Seravalli said on Bleacher Report's Insider Notebook. "You used a bullet as one option to try and get this team back on track, which is blast the players in the media. Okay, so he did that. Eleven 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. 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.""

The Nashville Predators are 6-12-4 with 16 standings points and sit last in the NHL, one of two teams below 20 points. General manager Barry Trotz publicly blamed players, saying he needed more and identifying individual mistakes when players turn the puck over. The Predators allowed a goal 11 seconds into the following game's first period and lost 8-3. Hockey insider Frank Seravalli called the organization's environment the most toxic in the NHL, said players 'responded' after Trotz's public criticism, and warned that publicly blasting players will not go over well. The situation is described as brutal and unresolved.

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