Player Discussion Jeremy Swayman: A return to excellence?

[LSCII]

The Bruins have had many issues this season leading to there mediocre play.

The Swayman contract saga being close to the top. IMO his public negations and selfish approach he has taken in negations' has had a very negative impact on the team.

Unfortunately the problems do not end there his play this season has not been near good enough. If you think you are a superstar play like one.

Why is a player negotiating a better deal for themselves "selfish"? It's absolutely laughable for a fan to even suggest this. It's a business. Teams operate under that premise all day long. Players are more than free to do the same. McAvoy certainly didn't leave a dime on the table. Nor did Pasta. But it's a problem when Swayman does what's best for himself? Hilarious.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Why is a player negotiating a better deal for themselves "selfish"? It's absolutely laughable for a fan to even suggest this. It's a business. Teams operate under that premise all day long. Players are more than free to do the same. McAvoy certainly didn't leave a dime on the table. Nor did Pasta. But it's a problem when Swayman does what's best for himself? Hilarious.

We traded the prior years Vezina winner to promote him and agreed to not go to arbitration. He chose to use this as leverage.

Today was his first 'great' game of the season and were 45 games in he's hardly giving us prime Hasek goaltending.

 

[LSCII]

We traded the prior years Vezina winner to promote him and agreed to not go to arbitration. He chose to use this as leverage.

Today was his first 'great' game of the season and were 45 games in he's hardly giving us prime Hasek goaltending.

Sway hadn't played particularly well, no question. Now with that being said, I've been critical of the defensive play in front of both goalies because it's been pretty lousy. I don't think any goalie would have much success playing behind a defense that lets the other team play in their end for prolonged periods of time and doesn't score any goals offensively. The roster is trash. But yes, sway can and has to be better. Today he was excellent. Literally why they won. With the stretch they have coming up against good teams, they need more of this.

 

[DKH]

He’s been trending way up

He made a handful of spectacular saves against Edmonton I went to

Great to see it - speed bump in rear view mirror

 

[Kalus]

I was at the game Saturday and he looked really sharp. Maybe he is on the upswing. The correlation of good goaltending to team success is not appreciated enough in my view. If he was playing up to his contract so far this season, there would be many more Ws on this team’s record. Here is where MoneyPuck has the goalies ranked by GSAE (the best indicator of goalie performance in my view:

Swayman: 65th
Korpisalo: 56th

Ullmark: 12th (why can’t we get guys like him?)

 

[goldenblack]

Bump time. Keep it up kid.

 

[JCRO]

Absolutely bump time.

He was a monster last night. And has really found his game of late.

 

[PB37]

I thought last night was his best performance of the year. He was locked in and focused and has been trending in the right direction for a bit now. With the team missing their entire first pairing D, they need Swayman at the top of his game more than ever.

 

[Terrier]

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