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Confirmed Signing with Link: [BOS] G Jeremy Swayman signs extension with the Bruins (8 years, $8.25M AAV)

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Can we take a second to praise Jeremy for rejecting the 68 million that was obviously totally offered and accepting 66 million instead the day after?

Why is nobody talking about this?
 
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Hank Chinaski said:
What does this have to do with Jeremy Swayman’s new contract?

There’s a dedicated sub forum for Toronto Maple Leafs talk last time I checked.
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Is there a dedicated forum for wannabe "Leafs" fans who make the rest of us look bad?

That's where HockeyVirus (it's in his name) should be punted off to.

There's no way this dude is a Leafs fan and I'm putting myself out there to question him, knowing full well that maybe I'm attacking another forumite. But when you say the stuff this guy is saying all the time, on behalf of Leafs fans, I feel like I should have the ability to call BS.

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SeanMoneyHands said:
$8.25M for a goalie who hasn't been a full-time starter before lol. Adin Hill is more proven than Swayman and he got 5M.
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It ain’t personal, but this is kind of why I side with Neely on the initial negotiations.

This contract makes sense now. It won’t if Swayman doesn’t take 55-60 starts with high-end results.
 
Lets hope Swayman can remain as a top 10 goalie for the next 8 years (even though he's paid like a top 3 goalie in the NHL, which he is not.).

Hope he's not the next Andrew Hammond.
 
ZDH said:
Can we take a second to praise Jeremy for rejecting the 68 million that was obviously totally offered and accepting 66 million instead the day after?

Why is nobody talking about this?
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Geez - math is definitely not your strong suit. Nobody is talking about it ( well except for you ) because what you posted is completely inaccurate. Let's take a closer look at this problem - Neely mentioned $64 million but Swayman signed an 8-year deal for $8.25 million a season which comes out to $68 million. Anymore math questions ????
 
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I would have kept Ullmark. I don't think Swayman is $3.25M per season better.

Ullmark at $5M per or Swayman at 8.25M per and for 8 years? Give me Ullmark.
 
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BostonBob said:
Geez - math is definitely not your strong suit. Nobody is talking about it ( well except for you ) because what you posted is completely inaccurate. Let's take a closer look at this problem - Neely mentioned $64 million but Swayman signed an 8-year deal for $8.25 million a season which comes out to $68 million. Anymore math questions ????
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Already answered Bob (by someone who wasn't a total douche) - geez reading is definitely not your strong suit.
 
ZDH said:
Can we take a second to praise Jeremy for rejecting the 68 million that was obviously totally offered and accepting 66 million instead the day after?

Why is nobody talking about this?
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We don't know what the actual terms were for the previous offer that he allegedly rejected.

He ended up with 23M in signing bonuses and a NMC for all but two of the eligible years. It is possible that Boston wasn't previously offering a NMC, or didn't want to do signing bonuses.
 
Jeune Poulet said:
Swayman f***ed the Bruins real good here.

Wouldn't be surprised if Korpisalo held more trade value than Swayman by next season.
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Based on…?

SeanMoneyHands said:
I would have kept Ullmark. I don't think Swayman is $3.25M per season better.

Ullmark at $5M per or Swayman at 8.25M per and for 8 years? Give me Ullmark.
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For one more season.

Then he’s likely looking at a long term contract for around the same amount of money while being on the wrong side of 30

That’s assuming he has a good year in Ottawa… which basically no goalie does
 
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I Hate Philadelphia said:
Swayman career .922 in the playoffs.

UIlmark crumbled in the playoffs at every opportunity. Career .887.

That's the difference.
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True but that's still a long time to commit to a goalie who hasn't been a full time starter yet. He's getting franchise goalie money and I'm not even 100% convinced that he's a franchise goalie.
 
Honestly... this is a deal that will likely never really look all that bad.

He's tied as the 4th highest paid goalie in the league this year... and that's going to be a tie for #5 next year, maybe #6 depending on what Oettinger gets.

Yes, it "hurts" this year a bit, as they've gone from a $8.475m goaltending tandem to an $11.25m tandem.... when the right thing from a team standpoint would have probably been to do a 4 or 5 year deal at $6-7m, keeping their tandem under $10m... but that obviously wasn't in the cards.

There's also the challenge of having to beat 4 different teams to win a cup, and the likelyhood that at least 1 of them has a goalie making a fraction of Swayman's salary going toe-to-toe, and the team being outmatched as a result, but there's no real way "around" that unless the B's were going to reset entirely.

Even in that case, it's not like people are going to "blame" Swayman if Joe Woll, Pyotr Kotchekov, or Charlie Lindgren end up beating the Bruins... it'll come down to the fact that one of those 3 teams had $7m more to spend infront of the goalie.

Barring him completely collapsing under a #1 workload & pressure (which doesn't seem to be his makeup), this has all the makings of being as much of a steal as Hellebuyck was for the Jets for the last 6 years.
 
Perfect deal for both sides.

Potential for it being a slight steal for Bruins down the road but it’ll never be a bad contract
 
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This is a little the Nylander/Draisaitl RFA contract for goalies. As a Bruins fan I don't like how the agent or Neely went through the media but also that's business, and we're all big business boys.

As a objective fan of hockey however I kind of admire Sway. Starting NHL goalie is a very very tough job. One of the tougher jobs in pro sports, not quite NFL QB or MLB starting pitcher but not all that far off either. If you're good at it you should get compensated fairly. Yeah the margins are thin on this position but fans know how much of a difference a great goalie can make.

Bruins fans who watched Tim Thomas surely know this and won't hold it against Jeremy.
 
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CorgisPer60 said:
Glad that it's done for the Bruins, but man, that's rich for a player that doesn't have even half the accolades of Vasilevskiy or Hellebuyck. Let's see him play more than 55% of the season now.
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Agreed…So he got his $$$ - good for him…Now he better deliver.
 
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