NHL Rumors: Jeremy Swayman Is not Going Anyplace, and Why Was December 1st Introduced Up

Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – A Bevy of Extensions as Coaching Camps Start episode. There’s nonetheless a spot between the Boston Bruins and Jeremy Swayman on an eight-year deal. Friedman doesn’t assume the Bruins would take into account buying and selling Swayman, and what Sweeney mentioning December 1st might imply.

** NHLRumors.com transcription

Friedman: “Swayman, once more, it was a loopy day, the opposite day. And I’m not ripping another reporters. I’ve been proper, I’ve been fallacious, and I might be proper and I might be fallacious once more. So I don’t wish to kick different individuals after they’re down, as a result of I do know what it’s wish to be fallacious.

I simply don’t assume, I simply assume that there’s nonetheless, I feel there’s nonetheless a spot on an eight-year time period. It will probably all the time change with one telephone name, however there’s nonetheless a spot on an eight-year time period.

Now, the one factor I do wish to say about Swayman is that this, I had some individuals asking me, do you assume the Bruins will, will pivot and take into account buying and selling Swayman? Simply quit and go. I haven’t spoken to Don Sweeney. He’s attempting to maintain a low profile, apart from making it clear that he’s not all the time proud of the entire reporting right here.

However my impressions are that the, the Pink Sox. Are you able to consider I simply referred to as them the Pink Sox? My impressions are that the Bruins don’t wish to commerce Swayman. Like they’d Swayman-Ullmark. They felt they needed to make one transfer. I don’t consider they wish to make two.

Like I actually do consider after they say that when, when Sweeney got here out the opposite day and stated, ‘We wish to signal Swayman.’ I consider that. I consider there may be their aim, and buying and selling him is just not what they’re contemplating or wish to do.”

Bukauska: “Yeah, that may be …”

Friedman: “Which, in fact, means two minutes after this podcast drops, there’s going to be a blockbuster. The sense I get on Thursday, they don’t wish to do it.

Bukauskas: “That will be every kind of goofy. What about when Sweeney talked about the December 1st deadline, So quickly. What did you consider that?”

Friedman: “I initially was like, uh-oh. My first response was, hearth marshal Jim. Uh oh.”

Bukauska: “Fireplace Marshal Invoice.”

Friedman: “Fireplace Marshal Invoice. Pink Sox – Bruins. Fireplace Marshal Jim. Fireplace Marshal Invoice.”

Bukauskas: “Jim Carrey, so that you’re forgiven there.”

Friedman: “I’m like, I’m means off at the beginning of this yr. I’m struggling at the beginning of this podcast.

I, after I first heard that, I believed what that was, was, you understand, simply an acknowledgment that Lewis Gross, who represents Swayman, additionally represents William Nylander. And he did this a number of years in the past, December 1st, they usually received him signed, like minutes earlier than the deadline.

I don’t consider, after occupied with it and asking round, that that was what Sweeney was doing, on this explicit case. What I feel he was doing was saying, if I discussed, and I do know this, there are individuals who speak about this, so I feel it’s true.

The second you point out a deadline like the beginning of the season, it hangs over the whole lot. The followers level at it. The media factors at it. The agent factors at it. Everybody factors at it.

So I feel what Sweeney was doing, and he’s a reasonably sensible man, is he was sitting again there and saying, I’m going to say December 1st in order that there’s no different date or deadline that anybody can use as a leverage or stress level in opposition to us. That’s what I feel that was.”