As the Nashville Predators were saluting their fans after being swept out of the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Colorado Avalanche in early May, Filip Forsberg took an extra long lap around Bridgestone Arena to soak it all in. You know, just in case.

That might have been pretty prophetic, perhaps the last glimpse of him in a Predators uniform.

More than six weeks later, Forsberg and the Predators are no closer on a new long-term contract extension that would keep him in the Music City. The two sides have made little progress, according to sources, and remain far apart on both dollars and the type of contract structure he’d prefer to stay a Pred.