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Nashville plans to give firm offers to Suter, Weber

Shea Weber, Ryan Suter

Shea Weber #6 and Ryan Suter #20 of the Nashville Predators celebrate Weber’s goal during the first period against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center on October 13, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Brian Kersey/Getty Images) * Local Caption * Ryan Suter; Shea Weber (October 13, 2008 - Source: Brian Kersey/Getty Images North America

Predators GM David Poile wants Ryan Suter, but if he’s not coming back, he needs to know so that he can make other arrangements.

With that in mind, Josh Cooper is reporting that Poile plans to make a “firm offer” to Suter and another to restricted free agent Shea Weber.

“I haven’t done that to this point, but I think that’s probably the proper thing to do,” Poile said. “It’s a tough situation we’re in. Ryan controls all the cards right now, and if he comes back and signs with us, that’s terrific and we live happily ever after, but we need to move this forward because there’s a couple of other directions we may want to go if we knew that he wasn’t coming back.”

Personally, I think if Suter wanted to stay with Nashville, he would have re-signed with them by now. It wouldn’t be Earth-shattering news if he did agree to terms with the Predators, but at this point it seems far more likely that he will go elsewhere.

Weber is a bit of a more complicated situation. The Nashville Predators are in danger of losing Suter for nothing. If Weber refuses to sign a long-term contract with the Predators, they could end up watching Weber walk too. With that in mind, it might be better to trade Weber over the summer if Suter walks and Weber refuses to ink anything other than a one-year deal.