NEW YORK -- Nashville Predators star Ryan O'Reilly said he regrets a frustration-fueled postgame rant last week in which he blamed himself for the team's struggles.

"I think it came off as, 'Gosh, you sound like a crybaby,'" he told ESPN on Monday.

After the Predators lost to the Philadelphia Flyers last Thursday, O'Reilly offered a brutal assessment of his own play, saying Nashville won't have success "if I'm playing pathetic like that" as a No. 1 center. "[I] turn the puck over everywhere. Can't make a six-foot pass to save my life," O'Reilly said in a video clip that went viral. "It's stupid. I've had one good year in my career. I don't have an answer, that's for sure."

O'Reilly said that he "should have just bit my tongue" after the game. "Obviously, you don't want things to g

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