The All-Star Game is Sunday at 4 p.m. in Ottawa.
Asked if he would like to play for the Flyers if he became a free agent, Suter said, "I don't think about where I want to be. I focus on being a good player on our team. The time will come for all that, and now is not the time. Our team is doing very good right now, and hopefully we can go and get that piece we might need for the playoffs."
Suter said his agent and the Predators had "talked ideas" but had not been negotiating during the season.
The kid's choice
If not for the urging of his 12-year-old son, Samuel, Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen admitted, he may have been tempted to rest his body and not play in the All-Star Game.
"He's into hockey a lot, and he's in a fantasy league and that kind of stuff," said the gracefully aging Timonen. "Obviously, this is a really big thing for him, and I'm going to take him into the locker room [Saturday]."
Timonen's parents traveled from Finland to Ottawa for the weekend, and his wife and three children are also here to watch his fourth all-star appearance.
Timonen, 36, will play for Team Chara and will oppose Flyers teammates Claude Giroux and Scott Hartnell, who will compete for Team Alfredsson.
Timonen said he would love to be paired with his team's captain, Boston's Zdeno Chara. They would form the Odd Couple. Chara is 6-foot-9, 255 pounds. Timonen is listed at 5-10 (but looks smaller), 194 pounds.
It's fitting Timonen is sharing the all-star experience with Hartnell. They were teammates in Nashville and are close friends. They are co-owners of a Finnish hockey team, and Hartnell goes to Finland each summer to play in Timonen's charity golf tournament.
Skills competition
