Speculation: The Bruins and Jeremy Swayman are far apart in contract term (length) and dollar amount.

[Hazy Little Thing]

If he were to accept the reported $7.8 aav for 8 seasons - that would place him as the 5th highest paid active goalie (not counting Carey Price)…And he’s got a lot of catching up to do regarding games played when compared with his peers.

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Comparing contracts straight up and not as a percentage of the cap is just silly and lazy.

 

[Score08]

Comparing contracts straight up and not as a percentage of the cap is just silly and lazy.

Then compare games played +hardware

 

[McGarnagle]

Genuine question here, do bruins fans feel like their team kept the wrong goalie or is it too early to tell?

I think asset wise Swayman was the right choice, but I firmly believe that Lewis Gross screwed over the Bruins in revenge for the Krug negotiations breaking down. 90% sure that Swayman's team indicated to Sweeney that they were in the same ballpark for numbers and would be an easy sign, assuring them that they could make the Ullmark trade, and then when they traded Linus, Gross comes back and and jacks up his asking number now that they have the leverage of Boston not having the other #1 goalie.

 

[Hazy Little Thing]

That whole RFA v UFA thing though.

EDIT: Not to mention the starts. It's not a fair comp IMO

The closest comp in recent years from an age, talent, stats, playoff performance, games played perspective is Tuukka Rask. And Boston is offering way less to Swayman than they gave Rask (as a percentage of the cap).

 

[Fogelhund]

Wednesday October 16th, Boston travels to Colorado to play the Avalanche. Lewis Gross client Ross Colton "accidentally" runs over Korpisalo, resulting in an injury. Boston is forced to sign Swayman for his ask, Gross takes Colton out to a nice steak dinner, and gives him a good tip for his troubles.

Just kidding.

 

[TD Charlie]

The closest comp in recent years from an age, talent, stats, playoff performance, games played perspective is Tuukka Rask. And Boston is offering way less to Swayman than they gave Rask (as a percentage of the cap).

And if Swayman paraded the Bruins to the Cup Final last year on the way to a Vezina trophy, like Rask did before signing that deal, then sure. Again, unfair comp

 

[Greek_physique]

And if Swayman paraded the Bruins to the Cup Final last year on the way to a Vezina trophy, like Rask did before signing that deal, then sure. Again, unfair comp

People will still complain because Rask never won us the cup...lol...so Sway can't be put ahead of him.

 

[wintersej]

The closest comp in recent years from an age, talent, stats, playoff performance, games played perspective is Tuukka Rask. And Boston is offering way less to Swayman than they gave Rask (as a percentage of the cap).

There are closer comps at lower length contracts like Saros, Helly, Demko. But they were all shorter term deals with a chance for another payoff. The league was so different back in 2013, it’s hard to reach that far back as a comp. The goalie market has really reset since then.

 

[TD Charlie]

People will still complain because Rask never won us the cup...lol...so Sway can't be put ahead of him.

Oh plenty of people still do complain about Rask. As a contract comp it’s not as simple as “oh they both had about the same stats at that age” or whatever the argument is. One had the Vezina and a near flawless Cup run. The other has one round under his belt

 

[YukonCornelius]

I’d rather have Swayman

I also think they could have handled the last year or two much better. Hindsight, she sure is a bitch

So is Swayman apparently

 

[ON3M4N]

And if Swayman paraded the Bruins to the Cup Final last year on the way to a Vezina trophy, like Rask did before signing that deal, then sure. Again, unfair comp

Rask didn't win the Vezina the year he backstopped the B's to a cup finals. It was the year after that when he won his Vezina. As for the bold.....If the Bruins offensive didn't shit the bed, he probably could have.

Through the first two series:
2013 Bruins - 3.2 G/GP
2024 Bruins - 2.4 G/GP

If you look at the FLA series, the Bruins only scored more than 2 goals one time. With how bad the offense was, Swayman would have had to been nearly perfect to drag that team past Florida.

 

[Greek_physique]

Genuine question here, do bruins fans feel like their team kept the wrong goalie or is it too early to tell?

I still think they made the right move, just horrible they haven't agreed with Sway.

Love Ullmark, but I still worry that he'll get injured every year and new contract would be a bigger risk.