Player Discussion Jeremy Swayman II - still waiting

[DKH]

@DKH I miss the simpler times of late June and July...when you had Sway pegged to earn $7.5M max! Woooosh...

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Disappointed more in him off the ice then the $10 M

Sad - he WAS my favorite

 

[kdog82]

There is 0.00% chance Swayman gets 10 per year.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

The bruins controlled his minutes. A month ago Swayman was the best goalie in hockey here

Sure ,then give him the 10m I'm sure he will be outstanding playing 20 more games than he has ever played in his NHL tenure.

Best goalie in hockey for what a month? lol

 

[The don godfather]

10 million seeya. Get assets for him. Necas Carolina?

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

There is 0.00% chance Swayman gets 10 per year.

DS should be fired on the spot if they pay this kid anywhere near 10M.

The Bruins are not idiots.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Sure ,then give him the 10m I'm sure he will be outstanding playing 20 more games than he has ever played in his NHL tenure.

Best goalie in hockey for what a month? lol

Best save percentage in the playoffs.

But only 6th in goals against.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Even Jimmy Murphy says Rich Keefe is full of shit on this one. Others should take notice of that.

 

[Fenian24]

• 1
  
  Carey Price
  MTL, G
  $10,500,000
• 2
  
  Sergei Bobrovsky
  FLA, G
  $10,000,000
• 3
  
  Andrei Vasilevskiy
  TBL, G
  $9,500,000
• 4
  
  Connor Hellebuyck
  WPG, G
  $8,500,000
• 5
  
  Ilya Sorokin
  NYI, G
  $8,250,000
• 6
  
  John Gibson
  ANA, G
  $6,400,000

Swayman is much better than Gibson or Sorokin, I put him as equal to Hellebuyck. Good Bobrovsky is better and Vasilevsky has won Cups. Swayman is going to come in somewhere between 8.5 and 9.5 depending on the years.

 

[jgatie]

Even Jimmy Murphy says Rich Keefe is full of shit on this one. Others should take notice of that.

And I can vouch that Jimmy "Thin Skins" is an expert on being full of shit.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

The $10m story reeks of the team leaking it to make Swayman look greedy and force him down to the number they want

 

[jgatie]

The $10m story reeks of the team leaking it to make Swayman look greedy and force him down to the number they want

Or it's some obscure blogger trolling his click bait.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

The $10m story reeks of the team leaking it to make Swayman look greedy and force him down to the number they want

When have the Bruins ever operated like that? This was Keefe wanting to get in the cycle with his new slot and all. It’s crap.

 

[GordonHowe]

You can buy a lot of cookies with $10 million.

Can you? I've never tried.

Or it's some obscure blogger trolling his click bait.

Wasn't this posted by Rich Keefe (sp) eei or 98.5?

 

[GordonHowe]

There is 0.00% chance Swayman gets 10 per year.

Again, I wouldn't be so sure.

You can argue this a lot of ways and do so with sound reasoning.

Yet the fact remains the cap, due to increased revenue and likely expansion (groan ), will continue to rise.

10 million over eight or nine years in that scenario is not going to be an overpay.

I'm not saying I like this or that I'm pushing for Swayman to get 10 million, just pointing out what I believe to be an agreed upon reality.

 

[BlackFrancis]

• 1
  
  Carey Price
  MTL, G
  $10,500,000
• 2
  
  Sergei Bobrovsky
  FLA, G
  $10,000,000
• 3
  
  Andrei Vasilevskiy
  TBL, G
  $9,500,000
• 4
  
  Connor Hellebuyck
  WPG, G
  $8,500,000
• 5
  
  Ilya Sorokin
  NYI, G
  $8,250,000
• 6
  
  John Gibson
  ANA, G
  $6,400,000

Swayman is much better than Gibson or Sorokin, I put him as equal to Hellebuyck. Good Bobrovsky is better and Vasilevsky has won Cups. Swayman is going to come in somewhere between 8.5 and 9.5 depending on the years.

Most of those guys won a Vezina trophy before cashing in.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

The $10m story reeks of the team leaking it to make Swayman look greedy and force him down to the number they want

How would making Swayman look greedy to the public force him down to their number?

 

[GordonHowe]

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.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

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.

If the Bruins signed Swayman for $10 mil, for any number of years, would they be able to trade him at that point? Would any other team consider him worth that much? And if they did, could they afford it?

 

[BlackFrancis]

Especially after an unpleasant arbitration experience.

Every time I read this, I envision Swayman's agent, Lewis Gross, telling Swayman what a great time he'll have bringing his employer into arbitration, an adversarial process by definition.

If he didn't want the bad feels, he shouldn't have filed. He's lucky the Bruins took it easy on him and only asked for one season.

 

[Boston Bruno]

Even Steve Austin astronaut was only a six million dollar man.

Under the bussi you go.

My spirit guide told me that Swayman very much disliked cats, chocolate in cookies and non Sherpa guided mountaineering.

He may have been seen burning a an effigy of PJ Axelsson in his youth but that could have been Jose Theodore..the monoxidil haze was confusing.


Swayman to Anaheim for gibson and a 4th round pick. e9!

 

[Pia8988]

People are too stuck in a work of a flat cap.

 

[Pia8988]

• 1
  
  Carey Price
  MTL, G
  $10,500,000
• 2
  
  Sergei Bobrovsky
  FLA, G
  $10,000,000
• 3
  
  Andrei Vasilevskiy
  TBL, G
  $9,500,000
• 4
  
  Connor Hellebuyck
  WPG, G
  $8,500,000
• 5
  
  Ilya Sorokin
  NYI, G
  $8,250,000
• 6
  
  John Gibson
  ANA, G
  $6,400,000

Swayman is much better than Gibson or Sorokin, I put him as equal to Hellebuyck. Good Bobrovsky is better and Vasilevsky has won Cups. Swayman is going to come in somewhere between 8.5 and 9.5 depending on the years.

Price - Signed in 2017 - 11.9%
Bobrovsky - Signed in 2019 - 11.4%
Vasilevsky - Signed in 2019 - 10.8%
Hellebuyck - Signed in 2023 - 9.7%
Sorokin - Signed in 2023 - 9.4%
Gibson - Signed in 2018 - 7.3%

So you're arguing swayman deserves at minimum 8.8 m. Now factor in age and term and 10 is easily reachable.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Even Steve Austin astronaut was only a six million dollar man.
Under the bussi you go.
My spirit guide told me that Swayman very much disliked cats, chocolate in cookies and non Sherpa guided mountaineering.
He may have been seen burning a an effigy of PJ Axelsson in his youth but that could have been Jose Theodore..the monoxidil haze was confusing.
Swayman to Anaheim for gibson and a 4th round pick. e9!

How about to Nashville for Saros?

 

[Bruins4Lifer]

Swayman is much better than Gibson or Sorokin, I put him as equal to Hellebuyck. Good Bobrovsky is better and Vasilevsky has won Cups. Swayman is going to come in somewhere between 8.5 and 9.5 depending on the years.

Should be comparing Swayman to them at the point when they signed their deals. All of them were more proven goalies at the time. Even looking at Gibson and Sorokin there's no question they were too.

Sorokin had 3 seasons of .918, .925, .924 sv%, with the last 2 starting 52 and 62 games, and one of them as the Vezina runner-up.

Gibson's previous 3 seasons before signing his deal was .920 sv% (38 starts), .924 sv % (49 starts), and .926 sv% (60 starts).

 

[Gee Wally]

If the Bruins signed Swayman for $10 mil, for any number of years, would they be able to trade him at that point? Would any other team consider him worth that much? And if they did, could they afford it?

It would obviously be limited number of teams that could afford it.
Then once his assumed NMC kicks in at 27 even less so.