I love this part of contract discourse but were there any comparables to even support Oettinger getting less than 8M? The entire market shifted- 8M is the stud goalie number. Oettinger could've held 10M over the Stars into next summer. His resume is a lottttt more impressive than Swaymans.
I wouldn't say it's more impressive than swaymans. Swayman has a better sv percentage and gaa than oettenger in regular season. Oettenger has only played 60 more games.
Swayman has a better career playoff sv% and gaa too.
Only thing really working against swayman is he wasn't given the opportunity in the regular season to show he could carry the teams 60gp per season load. But he was sharing the net with a recent vezina winner.
They are both 25 too. This deal was probably the easiest deal in the world for both sides to take given the Bruins did all the hard work of setting the market.