What are the Chances Jeremy Swayman Plays for the Bruins Again? | Poke the Bear

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1. Let swayman earn 0$

2. Sway holding a grudge and his agent is an ahole. This may sour everything. Nothimg good so far. Waiting for good news. W Sway in net its a cup run season w out barely aking wild card if not even makimg playoffs

3. Swayman (132 NHL games) and Lewis Gross (23 clients) are both seriously delusional about their worth, send him west, let him sit and sign a cheep bridge. The tail does not wag the dog in Boston.

4. He isn’t franchise material. He’s damaged goods after arbitration! He asked for arbitration and now can’t get over it. Not Bruin worthy. We will find better.

5. Great goalie. Tons of potential. Using past criticism can be a great motivating tool. But at this point it might be an anchor to his mental strength under future criticism. Love ya Sway, but if you're not putting the patch on your sweater first in certain facets then it's time to go.

6. wait. mentally tough? i think u could argue what were seeing right now is a argument against that

7. Are there teams out there that would pay Swayman more than 8×8 ? I kinda doubt it. If so, I would imagine the cap would deter there being many, especially good teams.

8. 😊This guy is too soft. Hurt feelings, cry baby. Needs a hug!
   Move on and trade his ass. Who needs the BS

9. Swayman, Frederic, Lysell for Gibson and Troy Terry from Anaheim ?

10. Conor w the Boston accent.. but will say words like “youngER” “yeaRs” “entiRE” “maRgins” and “dangER” but then go “mAHHket” “shaaaaHHKs” and Ahhhhbitration”

11. At this point the bruins front office needs to put a fair offer infront of swayman and tell him accept it or sit for the season.

12. Bruins fan since 1988…..I dont want this greedy crybaby as our goaltender for the next 8 years. I dont care about a fair agreement anymore I want Jeremy Swayman the F outta here. I would absolutely love to see Sway play an entire season as the starter for the Sens, Kraken, Sabres, or Habs. My guess is 40 games in and that 10 mil asking price will look like a joke. Goalies benefit big time from playing with the Bruins, a structurally sound team with a top notch defensive system and a brilliant goaltender coach who year after year are always near the top of the league for least goals allowed in the NHL. Ullmark just had his turn and turned it into a Vezina trophy and a fat new contract. You know who is next on the list to massively benefit from playing on the Defensively stout Bruins…….Joonas Korpisalo.

13. Trade him. He's going to be a pain in the ass no matter what happens.

14. Unless he steps up fires his agent and takes the deal none and no other team out there is going to give a part time goalie that kind of money

15. "Setting the goalie market"?!?! Who the f*""** does Swayman think he is? He won one series last playoffs and he's now "setting the goalie market"? This whole thing is about a thin-skinned, unproven goalie asking for the the moon, the sun and all the stars; he's dreaming. The team is built for Jeremy Swayman…NO! This team is built for whosever in net. I hope he gets an Offer Sheet for whatever he's asking. I would let him sit. Swayman has won next to nothing…no Vezina, no Cup, not even a Conference Championship. He is getting overpaid at 8×8. This is ridiculous!! Let him sit this year, then offer him 6×6 and, if he doesn't take it let him sit next year and watch him sign for 3×3 after that. I hope he gets booed off the ice when he next skates onto Garden ice.

16. Ullmark was the guy.. we trade the wrong player.. not having swayman signed before Ullmark trade created all this mess. Swayman can go back to Alaska. How can bruins keep this guy knowing how their fan base is..

17. Boston Traded away its negotiating strength when they moved Ulmark

18. jeremy is lucky he's not a teacher. constant criticism from everyone and every angle. OH and REALLY underpaid.

19. You guys are too young to remember Sinden's negotiations in the pre-cap era. 😆

20. Gross is the problem, he's not looking out for any player he reps, he's a leach and scumbag.

21. Why on earth would you trade your 1B goalie before securing your 1A goalie to a contract? Looking for someone to blame? Look in the mirror. 🙄

22. Both sides are now dicking around over less than $1M. If $8M doesn't get it done and 8.5 does, the B's should just bite the bullet and pay up. It will look like a bargain in a year or two.

23. "He went to Maine! It's not like he's this highly recruited star" Bro UMaine has been nicknamed Goalie U (Garth Snow, Mike Dunham, Jimmy Howard, Ben Bishop, Scott Darling, etc)

24. No one will touch him with this agent. Scott Bore-ass lite. He's proved he has great potential, not that he is in the same class as Helleybuck or Shesterkin(60+ games/yr)

25. …very few saw and called this before it unfolded. Just sentiments after what they were allowed to know was revealed…mush like world events. And then they want to get paid for those sentiments. What a curiousity. 🤑

26. Two names to remember in the context of the Jeremy Swayman impasse; Joe Thornton and Tyler Seguin. There is no good reason that yet another young star player gets traded by the Bruins. Losing Swayman in another really bad trade could be even more impactful than the others.

27. Don't really care. There are tons of goalies arould the AHL,KHL and NHL. Get a different one and move on. If he don't want to play get someone else.

28. The fans are rightfully turning on Swayman now. He just looks like a giant sensitive baby. Any offer over 60 million is very generous by the team. You do not pay an RFA like a UFA. Totally different situation. The Bruins need to shop him for the best possible deal. If nothing is satisfactory then let him sit.

29. This is all on your GM , he dropped the ball so badly,,, he had to sign him before he got rid of the other goalie! At the very least you could have brought him back to arbitration, so you had a deadline to negotiate! Neely saying what he did just made it much worse!

30. just get rid of him I'm a Bruin fan and I'm fed up of hearing the same story its been going on since summer. ship him to a team with no structured defence for a bag of pucks.

31. I don’t think he’s getting traded unless the Bruins go as high as 8.5 and he rejects it…then honestly he can pound sand and I’ll take what I can get for him. He made this all about himself and getting revenge…. for the Bruins telling him they “couldn’t trust him in the playoffs yet” because HE took them to arbitration had like an .870 playoff save percentage at the time and they weren’t ready to pay him 7 million after one year in the NHL 😂. I think the longer this goes on, the more time it gives people to realize just how delusional and unreasonable his demands really are. That’s why I think he’s actually going to sign soon

32. 99% he plays again people are taking this way to seriously watch Swayman sign with the Bruins before the Season starts if not then we don't need him a good goalie not required to be a good team ask the Avalanche and Oilers that.

33. ..from the best tandem in hockey…Bruins messed up badly..Swayman warned them with arbitration,,Neely made it personal..if Swayman walks..Neely and management have made a massive mistake..

34. The bruins wouldn't make a trade easy. They would want top talent.