Enough Swayman Contract Drama | Bruins Claim Goalie
The Boston Bruins News and Drama surrounding Jeremy Swayman doesn’t seem to end, and I’m frankly getting tired of it. Pierre Lebrun from TSN spoke with Neely. I have a conspiracy theory about where the info is all coming from, and Jeremy Swayman used the nasty things said about him from arbitration as fuel to play better last year. He even carried around a note with all the bad things all year.
The Boston Bruins also claimed Jiri Patera off waivers yesterday, and I broke down what that all means in this episode of Bruins Diehards.
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Sources
LeBrun – https://youtu.be/52S3_LQ2AwM?si=RYmybkzPgJJBGcf_
Jeremy Swayman on Bruins tenure: ‘I don’t want it to end’ – https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/41573696/jeremy-swayman-bruins-tenure-want-end
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Hate to keep going back to this but Sweeney needed to understand the Sway contract compromise before dealing Ullmark. Once he traded Ullmark without Sway under wraps, the bargaining position shifted dramatically.
I read comments everywhere that Essensa will "fix" Korpisalo, while I hope they are right, I have serious doubts
This is all on management. They could have locked Swayman up before sending Ullmark to the Sens.
I feel for you bruins fans, even if they sign him soon he might want out in a couple years cause he's soured on management (unless they shit-can Sweeney), same thing happened with Shea Weber in Nashville
No checkmark, he didn’t win the cup.
Everyone thought William Nylander was a whiner when he argued about his contract but a few years later that contract was a steal and he was underpaid
Colby Armstrong? haha
Jaroslav Halak….2018-2019….. 40 GP ..2.34 GAA and a .922 save percentage……2019-2020..31GP…2.39 GAA and a .919 SP..a combined 40 wins. So Swayman has played 10 games more, a 2.27 GAA average and a 2.53 GAA along with a .920 SP and a .916 SP along with 49 wins.
Either Halak was the most underpaid goalie in the history of the game or Swayman and his agent are nuts. To pay Swayman, right now, in excess of 7 million is crazy. Get serious. those who want to pay him the huge cash have blinders on because he played well across 2 series in 1 playoff run. There are hundreds of goalies who accomplished this and were never even starters or able to duplicate that success. 7 million is a windfall for those numbers across a career that spans 80 games. He's passing up, if we believe Neely, 64 million ( presumably 8×8)? Jeremy done lost his mind. quite frankly 8×8 is scary to pay a goalie with his short career who was drafted 111th overall. IMO
I hope they do trade swayman…dude is a weirdo…post your list up in Utah big boy. Get your cash homie!
The Bruins are bigger and meaner in front of him. Any goalie would love to be in that net. The Bruins traded Ulmark to show Swayman that they are acting in good faith to make him their starter, and then they offered him a solid term deal. Then Swayman, who TOOK THE BRUINS TO ARBITRATION and not the other way around, turns his nose up at them and their $64,000,000 offer?
It's only a very good thing if you want this dude as a Bruin. It's kind of at this point, do we want him as a man? Meh.
Bruins have all the leverage here, Swayman is still an RFA this year and next, can't see him not playing the in the NHL for 2 years, that would only set his development back and teams would not offer as much. Sweeney will wait him out, either he signs a deal the B's are happy with or he can sit for 2 years.
Let him go no way I give him eight
By eight he has not played a full season I think now it’s time for Bruins cut the cord he’s be a cancer
Bob Essensa is a jem,he gets more out of average goalies. If Swayman doesn't start the season we have no choice the cards are dealt. With Defense Corp and Goalie Bob on the job,I am not too worried. He won't give us a Rask or Swayman but he will make what we have better in goal.
A good goalie can win your team The Stanley Cup.
I like Swayman but he hasn't yet proven himself a winner in the must win games.
Trade him, not a team player
Oilers should get swayman,
swayman should get paid 12 mill per yr for 4 yrs…
Swayman and his agent have a overinflated view of his worth. Hasn't played more than 45 games in a season. Hasn't proven he is a number 1. If he doesn't want to sign for 62.4 million they should just let him sit home until Christmas and then trade him
When this is all settled whatever way it goes i think the jacobs family needs to move on from neely and don when their contracts are up
Start Shopping him or better yet let him talk to other teams. Sway would get a reality check. Lewis Gross has over played his hand.
Habs should offersheet Swayman 8.5 million
The have the picks, cost would be 1 – 1st + 2nd + 3rd round picks in 2025
That should quiet down the drama…
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F*ck him. Even if he re-signs, I look forward to flaming him for every softy that squeaks through and bashing him every time they lose early in the playoffs. This is the bed he made. Yes, my team essentially needs him to succeed after we unfortunately traded the wrong guy, But I will merely tolerate this player for the rest of his time in Boston and until he delivers a championship, I will continue to call him an overpaid bum who tried to destroy my favorite sports team over GREED. Rask NEVER did this. Rask won a Stanley Cup as a back up, brought the Bruins to the cup final several times and posted some of the best playoff save percentage stats in his tenure. The hate for Rask was undeserved and unwarranted so I do not want to see ANYBODY comparing him to this spoiled child. If he resigns in Boston, he absolutely deserves to be under the microscope for the foreseeable future and that’s the bed he made when he decided he wanted to put getting the highest pay of all time ahead of the team
He can always join team Putler for free-
Really interesting tidbit on Lewis Gross and his source with Spittin Chiclets though. I really think you are onto something big. I’ve been beating the Lewis Gross drum all summer long and it feels this week that finally caught FIRE. I think it’s becoming increasingly clear, this is not JUST a Lewis gross problem though. This time it’s even worse because of the hurt feelings and revenge. In any case it would seem to me that the shocking lack of skepticism from Hockey media at large towards Lewis Gross and his tactics is very telling to me. I think A LOT of #INSIDERSSS are relying on that slimeball for their juicy rumors…… and that’s why the whole media narrative seems to be so anti-Bruins front office, even though the fans generally seem to lean the other way… Which is the opposite of how things usually go.
I bet the new plan is a 2 – or 3-year deal for around 7 – 8mill aav, and then the big 8y x 10m+ deal down the road. My guess is a deal gets done very soon.