Player Discussion Jeremy Swayman

[22Brad Park]

OK that he filled his bank account so he isn't bitter for the next 8 years. But signing the fat contract means he has to play his ass off and steal some games for the team. He hasn't held up his end of the bargain.

I am glad he never stole games behind this shit roster. Bruins need some top picks badly.

 

[hrdpuk]

Tired of your act here bashing Bruins players .

You're the only one allowed to bash layers, is that right? Get back to earth

 

[JOKER 192]

For all those advocating for Sway to get paid pre-season , you can step out and take a bow now.

 

[Sheppy]

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F*** NO. If someone offered a top 10 pick, you could make the argument, but F** no



Coming into this season he was 79-33- 15, with a GAA average around .917 and a GAA around 2.4. This after being the best goaltender in college hockey during his career. He dominated the AHL in the couple dozen games he played at that level.

Everything about his history prior to last postseason pointed to him being someone who would be a top 5-7 goaltender in the league for the length of the new contract. And then he backed it up with a stand on his head performance in postseason.

I don't know why he has failed to perform this year. Some of it is clearly the team in front of him, especially given the defense they have had to play since Lindholm (and later McAvoy) went out. But he was off his game from his first game this year.

Maybe this is the new norm and Swayman will never again be the same player that was indicated by the previous 7 years of his hockey career. But is is absurd to say he got his contract because he had a few good weeks in the playoffs

He got $8.25M without ever being a clear cut starting goalie. The numbers are fine, but he was doing split duty playing 40ish games a year. Those numbers are likely different if he’s starting 4-5 straight in a row.

And yes, I do think he got paid because he had a good post season. I don’t get how that is absurd? Management was thinking “hmm, looks like he can start more than 2 straight games”

Do you think he’s worth his price tag? Like I said, if you’re holding out and missing camp because you think you deserve more money, you sure as f*** need to step up and play like it. He hasn’t.

 

[PaulD]

Tired of your act here bashing Bruins players .

Mcavoy
and Swayman ( this season only)
Only two players I recall throwing and criticism at.
Both of their half ass games were brought to my attention by a number of Bruin fans.
Sue me for agreeing.
Cheers

 

[Hookslide]

Right up there with Elias Lindholm's, and I liked both of those deals so I can't blame Sweeney for being a dunderhead in making them.

Your honesty is respected.

 

[Hookslide]

I think any hope they can or will trade Sway is desperation. No one is taking that contract after this season, better to hope he rebounds next year.

I am desperate........

 

[Hookslide]

Swayman doing those goalie hugs did not look like a guy with a bad attitude.The Bruins give him and his agent the keys to the vault and some fans don't like it because other stars took less to play here.He filled his bank account ,good for him .

What do hugs with his counterpart, and friend have to do with it? fraud

 

[Jdavidev]

The team especially the last couple of month have been hot garbage. But Sway has been inconsistent. There are nights he looks like himself. Nights he is completely under siege and really has no chance. then there are days he gives up 2-3 wtf goals.

I mean, that's been his issue his whole career. Playing good for a few games, and just as everyone is thinking he's turning the corner and taking the reigns he has a lousy game where he looks disinterested, sloppily holding the post or completely missing the read on the pass to the more dangerous slot or just going shooter tutor and not fighting to see in traffic.

At the end of last season, I was ready to trade him but said you had to start him in the playoffs to.see if he could do it. And against Toronto, it looked like he had grown up. He was stellar and locked in each game. But in Florida, he wasn't bad, but he wasn't stellar either, just good.

And once the spell of the Toronto series wore off, and looking at this roster, I felt it was the prime time to trade him. Get something decent for this roster and resign Ullmark for 4 more years to bridge the very obvious retool gap in the prospects pool.

And now, he's everything I feared. Good for a few games, and then just lousy and disinterested. We cheer korpi who clearly not as talented cause he fights and battles and dives across the crease for pucks he knows he can't get to, but he tries anyways. Swayman doesn't really have that in his game. And that hurts to watch, especially with a rebuilding team

 

[Thirty Seven]

He's been bad this year, however that can be said for the whole team. Our defensive zone is so frustrating to watch and they fold with any kind of pressure.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

He’s an awesome poster. Insightful poster to me.

Agreed. Where is he wrong? Swayman and McAvoy have both sucked this year. His takes are reasonable to me.

 

[wintersej]

I agree. Swayman had 1 playoff series win and shit the bed in game 7 in 2023. Never played more than 42 games in a season and should have been offered a bridge deal at 2 years at 4.5 to 5 million a season. That is a prove it to me contract

I'm not sure walking him straight to UFA would have been a smart move.

 

[Bodit9]

I want him gone. Low character individual. Build his value and trade him

 

[GordonHowe]

Did I believe -- do I still believe -- Jeremy Swayman can be a franchise goaltender?

Do I believe he's basically a decent person?

Yes, I do.

Yet I also believe that in his protracted and damaging hold out (on ice, over air, in the room) "Sway" selfishly, immaturely placed himself over everything and anyone else.

This set the tone for a disastrous 2024-25 campaign.

To my knowledge (if I'm wrong, please inform), Jeremy has never uttered a single word of contrition for the hold out and its detrimental fallout.

Swayman blithely acts and speaks as if, somehow, he is a leader on this club.

As excellent as he proved himself to be in comfortable, half & half tandem with Linus Ullmark and two rounds of last season's playoffs, Jeremy has not earned the right to consider himself a leader of the Boston Bruins.

Far from it.

With limited help on the back end (injury #73, #27) and lack of hockey sense (#91), Swayman has been sometimes great, often putrid this season.

So, you know, shut your face and play goal, Jeremy.

If I could trade you, I would.

 

[Mad-Marcus]

Did I believe -- do I still believe -- Jeremy Swayman can be a franchise goaltender?

Do I believe he's basically a decent person?

Yes, I do.

Yet I also believe that in his protracted and damaging hold out (on ice, over air, in the room) "Sway" selfishly, immaturely placed himself over everything and anyone else.

This set the tone for a disastrous 2024-25 campaign.

To my knowledge (if I'm wrong, please inform), Jeremy has never uttered a single word of contrition for the hold out and its detrimental fallout.

Swayman blithely acts and speaks as if, somehow, he is a leader on this club.

As excellent as he proved himself to be in comfortable, half & half tandem with Linus Ullmark and two rounds of last season's playoffs, Jeremy has not earned the right to consider himself a leader of the Boston Bruins.

Far from it.

With limited help on the back end (injury #73, #27) and lack of hockey sense (#91), Swayman has been sometimes great, often putrid this season.

So, you know, shut your face and play goal, Jeremy.

If I could trade you, I would.


Did I believe -- do I still believe -- Jeremy Swayman can be a franchise goaltender?

Do I believe he's basically a decent person?

Yes, I do.

Yet I also believe that in his protracted and damaging hold out (on ice, over air, in the room) "Sway" selfishly, immaturely placed himself over everything and anyone else.

This set the tone for a disastrous 2024-25 campaign.

To my knowledge (if I'm wrong, please inform), Jeremy has never uttered a single word of contrition for the hold out and its detrimental fallout.

Swayman blithely acts and speaks as if, somehow, he is a leader on this club.

As excellent as he proved himself to be in comfortable, half & half tandem with Linus Ullmark and two rounds of last season's playoffs, Jeremy has not earned the right to consider himself a leader of the Boston Bruins.

Far from it.

With limited help on the back end (injury #73, #27) and lack of hockey sense (#91), Swayman has been sometimes great, often putrid this season.

So, you know, shut your face and play goal, Jeremy.

If I could trade you, I would.

What he said!

 

[GordonHowe]

What he said!

Swayman is young, especially for a goaltender.

As we've seen, he can be great.

He can also stink, not least because he has nothing in front of him.

In my view -- we all have an opinion, and that's all this is -- he might shut his mouth, keep his head down, and do his exceedingly difficult job.

Goaltenders belong to a particular fraternity.

Many are nuts.

You got your major major $$$ plus term, Jeremy.

Play like it.

 

[chrisab123]

He had a bad year. Not really excusing any of it but the inconsistent blue line probably hasn't helped much. You have no choice but to bring him back next year and hope for better results. The next 10 games matter for pride purposes but the likelihood of this team making the playoffs is slim so probably start him sparingly down the stretch but also see what they have in Bussi and maybe identify him as a future backup. Let Swayman forget about this year.

 

[chrisab123]

I do feel like Swayman is catching more heat that he deserves. Yes holding out to start the season did him no favors. And yes he could be playing better. But the team in front of him is hot garbage right now. If we had traded Swayman instead of Ullmark most people here would have been upset with the trade at the time, and, if we're honest, Linus wouldn't look that much that much better than Sway (if at all).

I think we're seeing the result of the front office failing this team. I would have kept Ulmark because there was less term on his deal, however once he was dealt, Swayman had this team over a barrel. You can scapegoat Montgomery all you want as well, but ultimately if you really looked at this years roster from top to bottom it was aging and had lots of flaws. So the end result hasn't been terribly surprising. I think the team would have been better off doing this in the offseason, but maybe they felt that they owed it Marchand and Pasta to go for the playoffs again.

 

[Mad-Marcus]

Swayman is young, especially for a goaltender.

As we've seen, he can be great.

He can also stink, not least because he has nothing in front of him.

In my view -- we all have an opinion, and that's all this is -- he might shut his mouth, keep his head down, and do his exceedingly difficult job.

Goaltenders belong to a particular fraternity.

Many are nuts.

You got your major major $$$ plus term, Jeremy.

Play like it.

I would know, even beer league goailies like I was in my "yout" are nuts.
He's not that young, He'll be 27 in Nov of this year. He is in his prime. He should not have regressed this much.
The B's D has been a mess since Lindy went out(who'd of thunk), but he has repeatedly looked bad on goal he should be expected to stop.
He's a top notch technical goalie that makes it look easy, when he is on. Nothing has looked easy this year.
Hopefully he takes he off season serious and gets his sh*t together for a rebound(goalie pun).

 

[Number8]

Have the Bruins ever considered “pooling” goalie salaries — like some restaurants do with tips?

Might help make things a bit more equitable when one waiter inarguably provides a better overall customer experience, while another waiter who constantly forgets the basics of taking orders suddenly scores a huge table that just orders drink after drink and gets gifted a massive tip that is out of line with industry norms.

Asking for a Finish friend.