David Poile: Filip Forsberg, Nashville Predators at impasse as free agency nears

The Nashville Predators have offered an eight-year contract to Filip Forsberg, though the team and forward remain at an impasse as the start of NHL free agency looms, general manager David Poile said Thursday.

'We're taking a position where we feel that we're offering the right thing," Poile said. "They're taking a position where they think it should be more than that. ... They're not wrong, and with all due respect, I'm not wrong.

"Something has got to give in the next couple of weeks for Filip to sign."

Forsberg's expiring contract was a prominent topic throughout a career season in which he totaled 42 goals and 42 assists for the Predators. He'll be 28 in August.

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The start of NHL free agency is July 13, though Forsberg could wait and view his options on the open market and still choose to return to the Predators.

As his current team, the Predators are allowed to offer Forsberg an eight-year contract -- and they have, per Poile. No other NHL team would be able to sign him to a deal longer than seven years.

"He's not signing with us for anything less than eight years," Poile said.

Asked if the situation was "nerve-wracking," Poile agreed.

"It is because you have to have a Plan B, C or D on other things," he said. "Our first choice, I want to be clear, is to sign Filip. We've told him that. We've told his agent that. But we have to formulate other plans right now."

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