“Talking every day” – Filip Forsberg inches towards eight-year contract with Nashville Predators
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Swedish ice hockey player Filip Forsberg has moved closer to re-signing with the Nashville Predators than when they offered him an eight-year contract earlier in the offseason. The team’s general manager David Poile said on Wednesday that the Predators had offered the forward an eight-year contract.
The Ostervala native Forsberg, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 13, is Nashville’s all-time leader with 220 goals and is fourth with 469 points. He has played his entire 10-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Predators with career bests in goals (42), assists (42) and points (84) in 69 games this season.
“We’re talking every day,” Poile said after the NHL general managers met in advance of the 2022 Upper Deck NHL Draft at Bell Centre on Thursday and Friday, as quoted by NHL.com. “We’ve got a deadline coming up here [July 13] so obviously it’s hugely important to us and I’m sure it’s important to them. Both sides are from the beginning saying the right things that we’d like to get this done. Hopefully, we just keep moving toward that.”
“We’re just putting our best foot forward”
Talking about the holdup, Poile said, is about money, because Nashville is the only team that can offer Forsberg an eight-year contract. On the other hand, any other team that signs him on July 13 or after can offer him a maximum of seven years, according to the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement.
“We don’t love doing that, but Forsberg has made that as part of the negotiations and that will be part of his contract,” Poile said.
“We’re so close right now to the deadline that we’re all going to know pretty soon,” he added. “We just keep pecking away. We’re just putting our best foot forward.”
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