2022-23 $10M 2023-24 $10M 2024-25 $10M 2025-26 $10M 2026-27 Base salary $4.5M, signing bonus $3M 2027-28 base salary $4M, signing bonus $3M 2028-29 Base salary $4M, signing bonus $3M 2029-30 Base salary $3.5M, signing bonus $3M
Interestingly, the deal does, in fact, come with some protection against traffic. According to LeBrun, the deal has a full no-movement clause throughout and a modified no-trade clause for the final two seasons of the contract. July 9: Filip Forsberg isn’t leaving Nashville anytime soon, as the team announced (Twitter link) that it has agreed to an eight-year contract with the winger. While financial terms were not officially disclosed, 104.5 The Zone’s Dawn Davenport was the first to report ( Twitter link ) that the deal is worth around $70 million. Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli confirms (via Twitter) that the deal carries an AAV of $8.5MM worth a total of $68MM. The 27-year-old has spent parts of the last ten seasons with the Predators after being acquired at the trade deadline from Washington in 2013 in exchange for Martin Erat and Michael Latta in a trade that worked out much better for Nashville than it did for the Capitals. Since then, Forsberg has become a consistent scorer for the Preds and has been a key cog in their front line for several years. While Forsberg has been pretty solid in the scoring department having scored at least 20 goals in each of his first six seasons (and on pace for 20-plus goals in 2020-21), he found new gear last season. , scoring 42 goals while having 42 assists, both career highs by a significant margin. That was good enough to finish third on the Predators in points behind Roman Josi and Matt Duchene with their goal output – which ranked 12th in the league – helping propel them into the postseason with the team only in the middle of the package in goals. be allowed. The timing for that jump in production couldn’t have been better for Forsberg, as it ranks him as one of the top free agents in this year’s class, giving him plenty of leverage in contract talks. That allowed him to earn a $2.5M raise over his previous contract and plenty of job security from when he’s signed through the 2029-30 season. It will be interesting to see if he was able to get any form of trade protection in the contract, as this is something GM David Poile has historically been extremely reluctant to hand out over the years. Nashville clearly wants to stay in the playoff picture after adding Ryan McDonagh earlier this offseason, and keeping Forsberg in the fold will certainly help their chances of reaching the postseason again. They have just over $9 million left in cap space per CapFriendly, with RFA winger Yakov Trenin the most notable signing, so it’s possible the Predators will look to add another impact player this summer if they intend to to spend near the $82.5M salary cap. Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images.
