Kevin Fiala is honest, sometimes brutally so.



He’s his harshest critic. His season so far has been disappointing, and he knows it.



“Right now, I’m going to start over and just try to get back to my game,” Fiala said Monday morning. “It’s enough. I haven’t been playing good this season, and it’s kind of enough for me. I just have to get going.”



Four days earlier in Arizona, Fiala believed he was improving, saying he was “almost there, where I want it to be.” But that was before he slid off the top line, committed a defensive-zone turnover Saturday that led to a Los Angeles Kings goal and found himself benched for basically the rest of the game. (Fiala had two shifts during the remaining 33:46 of the Predators’ victory.)



Fiala, perhaps more than any other Predators player, requires a certain amount of tough love. (Monday against the Tampa Bay Lightning wasn’t the...