Posting here because there are a lot of people much more informed and smarter than me in our current cap standings and how NHL horse Trading works.
I want to learn.
It looks like Swayman is getting ghosted and low balled by the Bruins ($6.2m x4yrs)
He's in an RFA
He has team exclusion clauses (not sure if we're in them)
I know it's a long shot…but could a deal be struck with the putting Fast on LTIR, trading in Andersen and maybe Martin (if we still have him)
Why could that work or would that not work out?
https://www.si.com/onsi/breakaway/news-feed-page/boston-bruins-lowballed-jeremy-swayman
by notyomamasusername
8 Comments
Not gonna happen. Boston would match.
I quite strongly suspect we are not interested in paying a goalie $10+ M/yr.
Much better idea to just develop Kochetkov, who we have for $2M AAV, as our legit starter.
We do have Martin on contract, but he is likely going to the Wolves.
Fast 2.4m
Freddie 3.4m
Martin .7m
How the offer sheet would work is that the canes would offer swayman a contract but he agrees to let’s say 8 million to split the difference as you suggested.
The Bruins have one week to match the offer. If they do not then they get draft picks according to the scale of the contract I’m not sure what it is for 8 million but I suspect they are pretty high.
Before the beginning of the regular season though the hurricanes would have to offload that amount of contract value just to keep him within the cap space. The afford mentioned three players are only worth 6.5 million.
The math just doesn’t work at all. Plus there is zero need to have him on the team.
As others have said, Boston would match pretty much anything we could throw at Swayman, or we’d not have our 1st round pick for the next 4 drafts. If Boston took the picks, then we have to get cap compliant… we have like $80k in cap space (projected) right now, so say goodbye to quite a few good players and prospects. The other teams in the league would know we’re in a massive cap crunch and fleece us like we did when we got Turbo from Chicago (with Bickel) or the pick that became Jarvis from Toronto (with Hurricanes Legend Marleau).
Not really unless he clearly wants out of there. RFAs holding out is about the only leverage they have against a team, and he already declined arbitration. Also, goalies historically do not usually net a big return, however, that does and did not stop teams asking a ridiculous price for goalies. That is why Carolina picked up Martin on waivers instead of trading. No doubt the bruins would ask for something very high because they already moved out Ullmark with the intention of keeping Swayman.
Please god no (sincerely a Boston fan who follows all team subs for fantasy hockey purposes).
> looks like Swayman is getting ghosted
lol wtf are we teenagers? i swear most of these posts have 0 fucking clue how professional sports operate