SwayHeyKid
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They made Pastrnak the highest paid RW ever and gave McAvoy more money than Makar so they aren’t afraid to set markets and overpay. Swayman should be no different. Sweeney traded Ullmark because he has zero qualms that Sway can be a 55-60 game starter, now pay him like the 25 year old franchise cornerstone goalie he is. Skimp somewhere elseSwayman is clearly more talented & has greater potential than Vladar, I'm not disputing that at all. My point is that Swayman's resume at present is too thin to just hand him 8+ million a season. No RFA goalie with his stats has ever been signed to an elite goaltender level contract AFAIK. I don't think the Bruins want to set that precedent any more than Swayman wants to wreck the market for future goaltenders.
To your #3- but it's fine for Gross & Swayman to twist things as they surely did to squeeze more money out of the Bruins? Arbitration process sucks for both sides, nobody leaves happy or even content with the results.
They didn’t make their case. They knew it gets split so they low balled him on their number because they couldn’t manage the cap. Not sure which is more of a trash move the 2 mil in arbitration or the 6.5 starting number in these talksYou harping on the Vladar comp is just eye rolling.
Clearly Boston made their case well enough to get the award down the middle.
We all know that in negotiations they were not offering 2m. Gross decided to take his client to arbitration and maybe gained a few hundred K (if anything, we have no idea) out of it.
Is your stance that anytime agents select arbitration the team should just fold? I'm genuinely confused if you think that is the right long term strategy for the Bruins or any team.
So you think 8x9.5 is a fair market value deal?
I’m still not sure why it’s ok to pay McAvoy more than Makar but you can’t pay Swayman more than Sorokin or Saros