Matt Hasselbeck hopes to return to the Seahawks next season. Hasselbeck, who has spent the last 10 seasons with Seattle, wasn't able to work out a deal with the team before the collective bargaining agreement expired. "I would put myself in the same boat as probably 500 other guys," Hasselbeck told The Boston Globe. "It's kind of hard to do a deal without knowing what the rules of the game are, and so most of us free agents were just kind of sitting in a holding pattern until this new CBA comes down. And we all knew it was going to be that. "There's maybe a handful of guys that were going to definitely get done before the lockout began, and I truly thought that I would be one of those guys potentially, because of my desire to stay and everything (the Seahawks) had told me. But it didn't happen, and that's OK. I'm not upset about anything. I understand it's kind of a weird year and it's a hard year to forecast." After the season, coach Pete Carroll called re-signing Hasselbeck the team's top priority. "I think it's genuine, I think it's sincere that they want me back, it's just a matter of how badly," Hasselbeck said. "I know that I would like to be there. I think I can help them keep going on what we're building there. It's just a matter if it fits into the new agreement and how they want to do things and whatever else they look at."