It's All Your Fault

With Nashville's season over, co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling reflect on what went wrong, what went right and what next season's team might look like. In July the Seattle Kraken get to choose one player from every NHL team in the expansion draft. Teams are allowed to protect a small number of players from being drafted, so who will the Preds save? Will they keep the...

During last week's episode co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling wondered if the home-ice advantage -- and the notoriously loud Bridgestone crowd -- would give the Preds the spark they needed to defeat the Canes in Games 3 and 4. The answer was heard loud and clear: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Even back in Carolina for Game 5, the Nashville Predators challenged the Ca...

On this week's episode, cohosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling recap the team's first two games against the Carolina Hurricanes. What went wrong? Was the lack of producing on the power play the only issue on the ice? Also discussed: When Coach Hynes was asked about the team's performance after Game 2, he got defensive, dodged a question and wondered whether or not the repor...

What's there to talk about this week other than Pekka Rinne's possible retirement? This week cohosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling reminisce on what the goalie has brought to not just the franchise but also the city of Nashville throughout his career with the Predators. They also have a few ideas regarding how to immortalize the man. A statue, of course! Where should it go...

Tanner Jeannot. That's what this week's episode is about. Tanner Jeannot and his magical ability to send grown men tumbling across the ice. Cohosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling also make time to discuss the Nashville Predators' lack of cohesive identity and what the team needs to do if they hope to make it past Round 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. (They're going to have t...

Wow, OK, so the Preds are really doing this. It's entirely possible that they're going to make the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. This week, IAYF cohosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling take a look at what needs to happen in the remaining games for the Preds to clinch that fourth spot in the Central Division, as well as how things could shake out in the case of a (very possible)...

In February, when the Nashville Predators had one of the worst power plays in the league, you would've been hard-pressed to find a fan who truly believed the team could make the playoffs. Oh, what a difference a couple of months -- and an Eeli Tolvanen -- makes! Now, the Preds are battling it out with the Dallas Stars and the Chicago Blackhawks for fourth place in the Central Division, with eight...

Things get a little heated this week as co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Megan Seling and special guest J.R. Lind discuss whether or not David Poile should've made a big move before the trade deadline. Sure, the team has been winning lately, but the start of a season was a much different story! Did recency bias keep him from investing in the franchise's future with draft picks and prospects? Also discu...

It's a very special edition of It's All Your Fault this week as Justin Bradford of Penalty Box Radio joins co-hosts Michael Gallagher and Geert De Lombaerde to talk about all things Preds. Not only is Bradford the editor-in-chief at Penalty Box, but he's also the Commissioner of SECHC Hockey and the author of the book The Making of Smashville. If it's Nashville hockey, Bradford knows all there is...

The youth movement, the youth movement, the youth movement. For months IAYF co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling have been begging the Preds coaching staff to trust the youth movement. And now that they finally are, look at what's happening! A six-game winning streak! Eelie Tolvanen scoring game-winning overtime goals and popping up in discussions about the Calder Memori...

Well, well, well, look what we have here. A winning hockey team! The Nashville Predators have won four of their past five games. Some of the younger guys who've had to step up to fill in for injured players are starting to gel and spirits appear to be high as the teammates joke with one another on and off the ice. It's quite a change from a couple of weeks ago when the playoffs felt impossible and...

Earlier this week Michael Gallagher asked, sincerely, "What keeps you watching Preds games?" The answers were interesting. WhileSome folks said they were ride-or-die fans, in it until the bitter end. Others said they tuned in to see what the younger talent can do. This week, Gallagher and his IAYF co-hosts Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling talk about the importance of the team's youth movement....

For weeks, months even, IAYF co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling have been begging the Nashville Predators to put Eeli Tolvanen on the ice and pair him with top-line players like Filip Forsberg. Well, Coach Hynes finally heard them, and look what happened: Tolvanen has three points in five games, two of which are power-play goals. You have to wonder: With the playoffs b...

During the last episode of It's All Your Fault, co-hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling discussed whether or not it was time for the Nashville Predators to rebuild. Fire the coach! Fire the GM! Fire every player! Start over! But then the team started to turn things around, at least a little bit. On Tuesday Pekka Rinna got his 59th shutout of the season and two of the team's...

Welcome to a very special edition of It's All Your Fault, where hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling literally scream into the mics for 60 minutes. Just kidding, kind of. Not a lot is working out for the Nashville Predators right now so this week's episode asks the question: Is it time for a rebuild? If so, what would that look like? Should the Preds keep promising young gu...

There have been a lot of changes within the Nashville Predators franchise over the past year -- there's a new head coach, a handful of promising new forwards and a new starting goalie, for instance -- but nine games into the new season and it looks like the team is still haunted by old problems. Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling take a deeper look at what some of the underlyin...

Well, that didn’t last long. When this episode was recorded Thursday morning, the Nashville Predators were (SOMEHOW!?) sitting at the top of the Central Division. Despite that 0-7 loss to Dallas. Now, on Friday, they’re currently tied for second. Still, an impressive feat for a team with one of the worst power plays in the league! Will the team be able to stay on top so long as their special teams...

Well, it didn’t take long for COVID-19 to further impact Nashville’s 2020-21 hockey season. Tuesday night’s game -- the second in a back-to-back with the Caroline Hurricanes -- was postponed out of “an abundance of caution” after multiple Hurricanes players were moved to the COVID-19 protocol list. There is good news: As of Wednesday afternoon, no one from the Preds has been placed on the protocol...

Get ready, hockey fans, the first Nashville Predators game of what will surely be a very strange season is just hours away -- the Preds face the Blue Jackets on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. So on this week's episode of It's All Your Fault, Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling ponder one burning question going into the season: Will the team's top scorers ... score? Last season seve...

Welcome to 2021, hockey fans, where the NHL season is only 56 games long and the four divisions are split up unlike ever before. Weird! On the first episode of the new year, cohosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling take a closer look at some of the changes the Nashville Predators made during the offseason. The team signed a handful of new guys including Nick Cousins, Mark Bor...

In the past week or so, the Nashville Predators have traded away Craig Smith, Austin Watson, Nick Bonino, Kyle Turris and Colin Blackwell, moves that left many Preds fans wondering what kind of tricks GM David Poile had hidden up his sleeve. So this week hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling take a closer look at some of the new guys -- Matt Benning, Mark Borowiecki, Luke Ku...

Roman Josi is a Norris Trophy-winning defenseman! This week hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling celebrate Josi and his much-deserved victory. The voting wasn't even close! Is the NHL finally ready to take Nashville seriously? Also discussed: Mikael Granlund's agent has said the Finnish forward will test free agency. Is this a bluff to try to get David Poile to pay more? Pl...

On this week's IAYF, hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling look into their crystal hockey puck and try to predict what the Nashville Predators roster might look like come October ... er, December. When does the season start again? Anyway, there's a whole crop of young Preds prospects itching to get on NHL ice, and general manager David Poile has said it's time to make some c...

Well, it's over. For the first time since the 2013-14 season, the Nashville Predators won't be playing in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. For Preds fans, it is the cherry on top of this otherwise truly awful year. This week hosts Michael Gallagher, Geert De Lombaerde and Megan Seling unpack the team's performance against the Arizona Coyotes and discuss what moves General Manager David Poile might an...

Sunday's Preds game was hard to watch. While most players looked strong and refreshed during July's training camp (as well as Thursday's exhibition game against the Dallas Stars) the team appeared to fall back into old habits when it came time for their first game in the post-season qualifying round against the Arizona Coyotes. It went downhill fast, the second Arizona scored early on a lucky boun...