Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman signs eight-year, $66 Million deal

Bruins Goalie Jeremy Swayman Signs eight-Year, $66 Million Contract originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Bruins have come to terms on an eight-year, $66 million long-term contract agreement with goaltender Jeremy Swayman of their goaltending unit, effectively signing him to an extended long-term agreement. Just before their regular season opener against Florida Panthers on Tuesday, they did it again: Goalie Cam Ward has signed an eight-year, $66 million contract, with an $8.25 million salary cap hit, according to team announcement on Sunday. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that Swayman entered free agency as an RFA. This agreement includes an involuntary no-trade clause. Both sides opted not to file for arbitration prior to July’s deadline and began negotiations instead, though negotiations proved challenging at times. Bruins president Cam Neely recently suggested his club offered Swayman an unfavorable $64 million contract offer – prompting an aggressive reaction from goalie agent Lewis Gross. But both sides were able to quickly come together and reach an agreement that works. Swayman will join only six goaltenders with cap hits of more than $6.4 million for 2024-25; these include Carey Price of Montreal Canadiens (10.5 million cap hit), Sergei Bobrovsky of Florida Panthers (10 million), Andrei Vasilevskiy from Tampa Bay Lightning ($9.5 million cap hit) Connor Hellebuyck of Winnipeg Jets $8.5 million Ilya Sorokin from New York Islanders ($8.25 million), Swayman from Boston Bruins ($8.25 million cap hit; This deal represents an enormous win-win win situation as strong goaltending has been an essential foundation of Bruins teams over recent seasons – an essential ingredient to success for Boston Bruins success as part of building winning teams’ success, as strong goaltending has played such an essential part to their recent successes over this past decade or two years: the foundation has always been excellent goaltending with Swayman playing an instrumental part as part of that foundation is solid goaltending: it has always played an essential role as part of Bruins teams’ recent successes has been solid goaltending: that has provided strong goaltending being core to winning Bruins teams’ successes throughout its 15-plus years has played an essential role to Bruins success as part of strong goaltending played to their teams over 15-plus years has played an essential part to their teams having great goalt been the foundation provided by him alone being strong against each opponent opponent!This deal creates wins on both sides since Swayman joining Boston Bruins teams like these being solid goal keeping them playing, becoming key factor behind these tremendous teams’ winning performances over time with great Bruins teams’ great goalt as part of foundation which allowed their recent teams being made possible based around such teams like these years thanks in strong goaltin the foundation! This deal makes significant wins; for him being made possible because Bruins teams as strong goalt been strong goalt so many times over those v… Tim Thomas, Tuukka Rask and Linus Ullmark all won the Vezina Trophy during that period. After trading Ullmark to the Ottawa Senators last July and awarding Swayman the largest goalie contract ever in team history, Boston Bruins officially gave over their net to Swayman from University of Maine. Swayman turned in an outstanding 2023-24 regular season performance: 25-10-8 record with an outstanding save percentage (.916) and GAA of 2.53. Swayman outdid himself during the playoffs. In fact, he finished as goaltender of the entire postseason with an outstanding save percentage of.933. Swayman allowed two goals or fewer in nine of 12 starts through two rounds to rank No.1. Markstrom led all playoff goalies in terms of goals saved above expected during his Game 7 win against Toronto Maple Leafs in Round 1. He recorded 30 stops out of 31 shots taken during that contest and secured victory by stopping 29 of 31 shots during their series-opener win. Function() uses strict syntax;window.addEventListener(“message”,(function(a),”message”,function(a)..if(void 0!==a.data[“datawrapper-height”],)) for(var t in a.data[“datawrapper-height”]);var r=0;rSwayman has amassed over three NHL seasons an impressive save percentage and GAA totalling 0.919 with 2.34 goals against. In those games played over three full seasons his save percentage stands at an impressive 919 save percentage while his overall GAA stands at 2.34 in over 13 games played (132 totaling 132). Since making his debut during the 2020-21 campaign, Swayman has been fantastic for the Bruins. Their long-term core players – Swayman (25 years old), David Pastrnak (28), Charlie McAvoy (26) and Elias Lindholm (29) all around similar ages with each contract signed for at least five seasons – have all performed admirably, along with captain Brad Marchand (35) remaining among one of the league’s premier left wings. Expectations remain high entering 2024-25 season as this group haven’t advanced past multiple rounds since 2019 (despite having won multiple rounds themselves). With this core intact expectations are high going into 2024-25 season; having won multiple rounds is past due due for multiple rounds won in post season 2019.