Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman indicators eight-year, $66 million contract initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Boston
The Boston Bruins have lastly come to phrases on a brand new long-term contract with Jeremy Swayman. And so they did it simply earlier than the common season begins Tuesday in opposition to the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.
The 25-year-old goalie has signed an eight-year, $66 million contract with a wage cap hit of $8.25 million, the crew introduced Sunday. The deal features a no-trade clause, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. Swayman entered the offseason as a restricted free agent. Each side elected to not file for arbitration earlier than the July deadline.
It wasn’t the best negotiation, and that was evident this previous week when Bruins president Cam Neely instructed the crew had supplied Swayman a $64 million deal, which drew a powerful repsonse from the goalie’s agent, Lewis Gross. However each side have been in a position to quiet down and get one thing completed.
Swayman will probably be one in every of simply six goalies with a cap hit above $6.4 million for the 2024-25 season.
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Carey Worth, Montreal Canadiens: $10.5 million
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Sergei Bobrovsky, Florida Panthers: $10 million
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Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning: $9.5 million
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Connor Hellebuyck, Winnipeg Jets: $8.5 million
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Ilya Sorokin, New York Islanders: $8.25 million
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Jeremy Swayman, Boston Bruins: $8.25 million
This deal is an enormous win for each side.
The inspiration of the good Bruins groups of the final 15 or so years has been robust goaltending. Tim Thomas, Tuukka Rask and Linus Ullmark all received the Vezina Trophy throughout that span. After buying and selling Ullmark to the Ottawa Senators in July and now giving Swayman the most important goalie contract in crew historical past, the Bruins have formally given the web to the previous College of Maine star.
Swayman is coming off a really robust 2023-24 marketing campaign.
He went 25-10-8 with a .916 save share and a 2.53 GAA within the common season. Swayman carried out even higher within the playoffs. In truth, he was the highest goalie in the whole postseason, ending with a league-best .933 save share.
Swayman allowed two targets or fewer in 9 of his 12 begins by way of two rounds and completed No. 1 amongst playoff goalies in targets saved above anticipated. He made 30 saves on 31 photographs in a Recreation 7 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs within the first spherical.
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Swayman, in somewhat greater than three full NHL seasons, has posted a .919 save share and a 2.34 GAA in 132 profession video games performed. He is been implausible since making his debut in the course of the 2020-21 marketing campaign.
The Bruins have established a long-term core of Swayman (25 years outdated), David Pastrnak (28), Charlie McAvoy (26) and Elias Lindholm (29). All are across the identical age and every participant is signed for at the least 5 extra seasons. B’s captain Brad Marchand (35) remains to be one of many league’s greatest left wings, too.
With this core intact, expectations stay excessive for the Bruins coming into the 2024-25 season. This crew hasn’t received a number of rounds within the playoffs since 2019.
