What’s really amusing about this situation is that Boston expects him to want a fair and team friendly deal. I’m not a Harvard educated guy like Donnie Hockey, but I do know that you tend to not get any benefit from giving away your leverage, which Sweeney did by dealing Ullmark before he had Swayman locked up. Derp.
Swayman s not going to give Boston a home town discount, either.
Especially after an unpleasant arbitration experience.
More to the point, why should he? He is by all counts of very strong-willed individual, highly self-confident and, up to this point anyway, demonstrably capable of delivering.
He believes he deserves to be paid commensurate with his market value, which is high.
Is that 10 million? I don't know.
But, again, I know he's not going to get ripped off by the Bruins and Don Sweeney. That is not happening.
Take it to the bank. Or another club.