"We all thought that there was a good chance that he would skate today with the idea of maybe playing later this week, but that didn't happen," Poile told Nashville station 102.5 The Game before the Predators played the Minnesota Wild. "We're going to have a little meeting tonight with P.K. and the doctors just to see where we are."
Subban hasn't played since Dec. 15 against the Wild. He has seven goals and 10 assists (17 points) and is minus-11 in his first season with Nashville after he was traded by the Montreal Canadiens for Shea Weber on June 29.
Poile would not comment on reports that Subban has a herniated disk.
"We do everything we can to protect the player," Poile said. "I say almost every team just announces their injuries as either an upper- or lower-body injury. That's because when a player comes back, he's not always 100 percent, and if you knew exactly what was wrong with the player, a player on another team might go after that body part to see if they could reinjure it. It's not nice to say, but that's usually what happens.
"I don't think anybody wants to be [overly] secretive, except for the fact that we're trying to protect the athlete as best [as] possible. That's what we have to do. That's what we're doing."
