NHL Rumors: RFA Goaltender Jeremy Swayman and the Boston Bruins

Daily Faceoff: Frank Seravalli and Jason Gregor speaking concerning the Boston Bruins and RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman.

** NHLRumors.com transcription

Gregor: “Now, there are nonetheless just a few RFAs. Detroit followers are sitting there and saying, What about us, man? You bought (Moritz) Seider. You bought (Lucas) Raymond.

You bought Swayman in Boston, you recognize, some reviews about $10 million, I don’t know…”

Seravalli: “That’s not true.”

Gregor: “I believe that’s a bit of excessive. However, the place do you come out on these three offers. Some fairly vital gamers.

Like, if Boston doesn’t have Ullmark and Swayman, that’d be big. Like, I believe they get it carried out finally, don’t they?”

Seravalli: “Yeah, look, the truth that Swayman was again on the Bruins apply facility with out a contract, taking part in casual Captain skates was a extremely good signal.

Simply as a complete private apart, I really feel so, I can’t let you know what I really feel for Johnny Gaudreau’s agent, Lewis Gross, who additionally represents Swayman, to must get again to enterprise at a time like this, finally, while you’re grieving is hopefully it’s cathartic for them and useful to at the least take into consideration one thing else. However man, what a tough state of affairs that’s, you recognize, particularly for the agent as nicely, so near Johnny and Matthew and his household. So didn’t point out him earlier, however actually pondering of Lewis Gross.

And in the case of Swayman, these two sides have been, I don’t know the way far aside they’re proper now, however going again to July, the Swayman camp was within the mid-eights, I imagine, and the Bruins have been within the low to mid sixes. In order that’s a big gulf when it comes to AAV.

I don’t know the place they stand on phrases of size of deal and time period, however I’m wondering if it’s a philosophical potential departure from the place the Bruins ideally need to pay a goalie.

However right here’s the factor if, should you have been solely designed on paying a goalie six or six and a half million a 12 months, then Ullmark ought to have been your man. You need to have stored Ullmark then as an alternative. Am I loopy in saying that?”

Gergor: “No, I don’t assume so. I believe that’s correct. And you recognize, you’re in all probability going to have to regulate that quantity because the cap goes up right here the following few years. However finally, I received’t be shocked if he is available in round $8 million, you recognize, (Connor) Hellebuyck vary and stuff like that.

Now, he’s youthful, so I can see there’s a number of the explanation why. I’m certain Hellebuyck’s camps like hey or sorry, Swayman’s camp, it’s like, come on right here. We, there’s, there’s a number of arrows right here, if we simply have a sane dialogue, the place we will see,”

Seravalli: “However he’s additionally performed method much less. His physique of labor, it’s 132 video games Like, It’s not almost the identical.”

Gregor: “No, no.”

Seravalli: “I’m not saying he’s not value it. I’m simply saying it’s, it’s a very completely different argument. So he hasn’t, he hasn’t received any Vezina’s and he hasn’t, and it’s nonetheless the goalie place, which is seen completely completely different than anything and must be.”

Gregor: “Properly, it’s humorous how the goalie place, Frank, is the one the place there’s been a lower in contracts of the highest guys. Defensemen nonetheless go up. Forwards nonetheless go up.”

Seravalli: “Comprehensible. It’s a place the place, 12 months to 12 months, except you’re one of many prime three or 5 guys, you, you don’t actually know what you’re getting.”

Gregor: “And also you’re taking part in fewer video games now, proper? Like, gone are the times, actually, of the 70-game goalie.”

Seravalli: “We’re by no means going to see it once more.”

Gregor: “Yeah, there’s gonna be someone who’ll do it, however I agree with you, however in all probability hardly ever see it.”

Seravalli: “You assume we’re gonna have a goalie in some unspecified time in the future once more that performs 70 out of 82 video games. I don’t know that there’s anybody in a position, with the calls for on the place, to be wholesome sufficient to play 70 video games out of 82 in a season”

Gregor: “Now, you possibly can be proper, however I simply assume someone will do, an harm will result in a crew they usually’ll be like, you recognize what, we’re in a race, we’re doing it.”