The Bruins couldn't have fumbled this any harder if they tried, but Swayman is out of his mind if he thinks he's worth Bobrovsky money having done nothing to justify such an ask.
Goaltending is such an important position although not every team gets it right. The Bruins appear to have a rather inept backup in Joonas Korpisalo but at least have in Jeremy Swayman a goalie, who, during each of the past three seasons, has started at least 30 regular-season games, having last season started and otherwise played in 43 and one games. This season Swayman has started all seven regular-season games in which he has played. TBD will be how many games Swayman will start and how many Korpisalo will. After all, dying out are the days during which goalies on NHL teams start at least 60 regular-season games even with: - Connor Hellebuyck having done so during each of the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, with, following the 2015-16 season: - 2 seasons (the 2016-17 and 2019-20 ones) during which he has otherwise started at least 50 regular-season games - 1 (2020-21) during which he started 45 regular-season games, although would have, in that Covid-shortened season, likely started at least 60 had that season featured 82 regular-season games - Freddie Andersen having done so in each of the 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons with the Leafs, putting up save %s of at least 91.7 in each Thatcher Demko, by contrast, has only ever played in one season during which he started at least 60 regular-season games, with the season after that having featured a near-three-month injury stint. Last regular season Casey DeSmith and Artūrs Šilovs split those 31 games that Demko had not started. Last postseason Demko, DeSmith and Šilovs started one, two and 10 respective games although: - last offseason DeSmith signed with the Dallas Stars - Demko’s return from an injury stint that started after the first game of the 2024 Preds-Canucks playoff series still appears a long way off, with last month the Canucks having signed one-time Preds goalie Kevin Lankinen to a one-season US$875,000 contract - this regular season: - Lankinen has started all five games in which he has played, with a rather impressive 4-0-0-1 win-regulation lost-OT loss-shootout loss record and 93.0 SV% in those games - Šilovs has started both of those games in which he has played, but has put up a not-so-good 82.7 SV% we are having allowed multiple of Eagles, and no doubt at least four in each game he has started, with a record of 0-1-1-0
Buddy as someone who’s from Boston and been a bruins fan my whole life this is just the same old same old from the front office. The Jacob’s bring in the old boys club of bruins and you get first round playoff exit after first round playoff exit. Along with horrible front office moves. I’ve been watching it happen since the 80s
My whole family are Bruins fans so i find this whole situation hilarious. You went from 2 excellent goalies to zero. Maybe they will trade Swayman to a division rival back now also and get next to nothing back. I love it. I hope they miss the playoffs and Ottawa takes their spot with their new goalie they took from them.
The Bruins, as of games that had ended by this Monday a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, had been in a multi-way tie with the Sabres, Leafs, Wings and Habs on nine points in nine games (in all cases, bar with the Habs [4-4-0-1], 4-4-1-0 win-regulation loss-OT loss-shootout loss records). The respective goal differences of the Sabres, Leafs, Wings and Habs had been -1, -2, -3 and -6, with that of the Bruins -5, but with just two regulation wins as opposed to four for the remaining teams in the Atlantic Division above the Bruins but below the Bolts. Swayman has signed with the Bruins and via having allowed 21 goals on 211 shots has a save % of 90.0 rounded to the nearest 0.1 percentage point. Korpisalo has played in two regular-season games during which he has allowed nine goals on 60 shots, bad enough for a SV% of just 85.0. SV% isn’t a perfect indicator of the quality of a goalie, but one that is sub-90.0 begs the question of how many goals he has allowed that have been ugly. So which team has won the goalie trade between the Sens and Bruins? It’s not so clear just yet, with Korpisalo’s and Ullmark’s respective SV% of 85.0 and 88.5 (the latter via having allowed 10 goals on 87 shots). Ullmark allowed multiple ugly goals in losses by his new team to the Habs on 12 October EDT and Golden Knights last Friday EDT. Korpisalo 2 offseasons ago signed a five-season US$20-million contract in a deal that over the same term had been US$5 million less than that signed by Jack Campbell with the Oilers. Campbell had not provided great goaltending through the 2022-23 regular season but did play some playoff games during which he had put up an SV% of 96.1. That might’ve been because he had played in so few of them, and in all but one of them had played under 30 minutes. Last regular season, Campbell played five games, all of which he had started, and in only one of which, during a 6-1 away win over the Preds, he had even managed to reach an SV% of at least 90.0 (via having stopped all but one of 44 shots he had faced). His worst SV% in a given game had come in a 5-2 loss at Rogers Place to that same team, with all five goals he had given up on 34 shots. Campbell made his debut with the Leafs after a trade from the LA Kings early in February 2020, and from then to the end of that season would go on to start all six games in which he had played, allowing 16 goals on 189 shots, good enough for a 91.5 SV%. Campbell would not get to play in a playoff game as the Leafs had still had Freddie Andersen for that. During the Leafs’ stint in an all-Canadian division better known as the North Division, Campbell, in regular-season play, we don’t want to allow 46 goals on 585 shots, good enough for a 92.1 SV% and in postseason play would only play one game during which his SV% had dropped under 90.0. The Habs-Leafs’ 2021 playoff series what feature from him an SV% of 90.4 via having allowed 13 goals on 197 shots. The 2021-22 regular season what feature Campbell allow 123 goals on 1403 shots, good enough for an SV% of 91.4. Although during the May 2022 Bolts-Leafs playoff series would not feature him be the only reason Leafs would go onto lose that series, he certainly had been quite inconsistent, with SV% below 90.0, in each of games, two, four and six of that series, ending up with an overall SV% 89.7 via having allowed 21 goals on 203 shots. Campbell didn’t two seasons ago have a great regular-season SV% but definitely, even if in limited action in the postseason, turn things up significantly. Little would anyone know that last regular season things would take a substantial turn for the worse as he would last just five games before Oilers’ then-GM Ken Holland would waive that goalie, sending Campbell down to the Bakersfield Condors of the AHL. Since then Campbell has not played in a non-preseason game at the NHL, AHL or ECHL level, having earlier this month entered the NHL-NHLPA Player Assistance Program. Yes Campbell’s last two seasons have been a roller-coaster although Korpisalo, even if he doesn’t enter a so-called player assistance program, had a roller-coaster season of his own with the Sens and haven’t gotten off to a great start with the Bruins. This contract of Korpisalo‘s may very well be a Bruins‘ version of the Oilers’ Jack Campbell one, at least on goaltending quality, and it may very well be, unless Korpisalo happens to be injured during next off-season’s buyout period, the Bruins will buy out what by then remains of Korpisalo’s contract.
Swayman should just tell Cam Neely that he’s gonna go tell Jacobs that he’s good with $1m/1yr, and then quietly go up to Jacobs and say that Cam said he’s on board with $10m/10yrs, turn around and point at Cam, and he’ll give the 👍🏼 and then just bounce. Worked before…
Blame Lewis Gross for pissing in Jerrys ear, Gross wants to add to his client list (23) and prove he's a hard ass negotiator, screw them both for extorting the Bruins.
Bruins: want Swayman to be starter of future Also Bruins (according to fans and media): he hasn't proven he's starter How does that make sense? He played over half the season last year, which if you think about it is only about a dozen games shy of what most people consider a "starter's" workload. He is the guy, but his agent is a slimy ass who wants the two sides to wage war against each other so HE can get his payday. I refuse to believe this is on Swayman, and Bruins management aren't idiots. It's rumored that Gross withheld offer details from Dubas to Nylander, and I would be shocked if, the rumor being proven true, the same thing isn't happening here with Sway. I feel bad for the guy getting fuckin dragged through the mud like HE'S a greedy egomaniac. He's ON THE RECORD saying he wants to be a lifelong Bruin. But the media is telling me otherwise? Fuck that.
He’s asking for a contract that only goalies with established careers get If I was him I’d ask for a one or two year deal at 7 million and then get an extension around 9-10 million for 8 years when the cap goes up
The Bruins couldn't have fumbled this any harder if they tried, but Swayman is out of his mind if he thinks he's worth Bobrovsky money having done nothing to justify such an ask.
I want to put my phone sideways :(
Goaltending is such an important position although not every team gets it right. The Bruins appear to have a rather inept backup in Joonas Korpisalo but at least have in Jeremy Swayman a goalie, who, during each of the past three seasons, has started at least 30 regular-season games, having last season started and otherwise played in 43 and one games. This season Swayman has started all seven regular-season games in which he has played. TBD will be how many games Swayman will start and how many Korpisalo will. After all, dying out are the days during which goalies on NHL teams start at least 60 regular-season games even with:
- Connor Hellebuyck having done so during each of the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, with, following the 2015-16 season:
- 2 seasons (the 2016-17 and 2019-20 ones) during which he has otherwise started at least 50 regular-season games
- 1 (2020-21) during which he started 45 regular-season games, although would have, in that Covid-shortened season, likely started at least 60 had that season featured 82 regular-season games
- Freddie Andersen having done so in each of the 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons with the Leafs, putting up save %s of at least 91.7 in each
Thatcher Demko, by contrast, has only ever played in one season during which he started at least 60 regular-season games, with the season after that having featured a near-three-month injury stint. Last regular season Casey DeSmith and Artūrs Šilovs split those 31 games that Demko had not started. Last postseason Demko, DeSmith and Šilovs started one, two and 10 respective games although:
- last offseason DeSmith signed with the Dallas Stars
- Demko’s return from an injury stint that started after the first game of the 2024 Preds-Canucks playoff series still appears a long way off, with last month the Canucks having signed one-time Preds goalie Kevin Lankinen to a one-season US$875,000 contract
- this regular season:
- Lankinen has started all five games in which he has played, with a rather impressive 4-0-0-1 win-regulation lost-OT loss-shootout loss record and 93.0 SV% in those games
- Šilovs has started both of those games in which he has played, but has put up a not-so-good 82.7 SV% we are having allowed multiple of Eagles, and no doubt at least four in each game he has started, with a record of 0-1-1-0
Buddy as someone who’s from Boston and been a bruins fan my whole life this is just the same old same old from the front office. The Jacob’s bring in the old boys club of bruins and you get first round playoff exit after first round playoff exit. Along with horrible front office moves. I’ve been watching it happen since the 80s
You won the cup a a decade ago brooo, jealous
If I were Neely this would be like a personal affront from Swayman.
My whole family are Bruins fans so i find this whole situation hilarious. You went from 2 excellent goalies to zero. Maybe they will trade Swayman to a division rival back now also and get next to nothing back. I love it. I hope they miss the playoffs and Ottawa takes their spot with their new goalie they took from them.
The Bruins, as of games that had ended by this Monday a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, had been in a multi-way tie with the Sabres, Leafs, Wings and Habs on nine points in nine games (in all cases, bar with the Habs [4-4-0-1], 4-4-1-0 win-regulation loss-OT loss-shootout loss records). The respective goal differences of the Sabres, Leafs, Wings and Habs had been -1, -2, -3 and -6, with that of the Bruins -5, but with just two regulation wins as opposed to four for the remaining teams in the Atlantic Division above the Bruins but below the Bolts.
Swayman has signed with the Bruins and via having allowed 21 goals on 211 shots has a save % of 90.0 rounded to the nearest 0.1 percentage point. Korpisalo has played in two regular-season games during which he has allowed nine goals on 60 shots, bad enough for a SV% of just 85.0. SV% isn’t a perfect indicator of the quality of a goalie, but one that is sub-90.0 begs the question of how many goals he has allowed that have been ugly.
So which team has won the goalie trade between the Sens and Bruins? It’s not so clear just yet, with Korpisalo’s and Ullmark’s respective SV% of 85.0 and 88.5 (the latter via having allowed 10 goals on 87 shots). Ullmark allowed multiple ugly goals in losses by his new team to the Habs on 12 October EDT and Golden Knights last Friday EDT.
Korpisalo 2 offseasons ago signed a five-season US$20-million contract in a deal that over the same term had been US$5 million less than that signed by Jack Campbell with the Oilers. Campbell had not provided great goaltending through the 2022-23 regular season but did play some playoff games during which he had put up an SV% of 96.1. That might’ve been because he had played in so few of them, and in all but one of them had played under 30 minutes.
Last regular season, Campbell played five games, all of which he had started, and in only one of which, during a 6-1 away win over the Preds, he had even managed to reach an SV% of at least 90.0 (via having stopped all but one of 44 shots he had faced). His worst SV% in a given game had come in a 5-2 loss at Rogers Place to that same team, with all five goals he had given up on 34 shots.
Campbell made his debut with the Leafs after a trade from the LA Kings early in February 2020, and from then to the end of that season would go on to start all six games in which he had played, allowing 16 goals on 189 shots, good enough for a 91.5 SV%. Campbell would not get to play in a playoff game as the Leafs had still had Freddie Andersen for that. During the Leafs’ stint in an all-Canadian division better known as the North Division, Campbell, in regular-season play, we don’t want to allow 46 goals on 585 shots, good enough for a 92.1 SV% and in postseason play would only play one game during which his SV% had dropped under 90.0. The Habs-Leafs’ 2021 playoff series what feature from him an SV% of 90.4 via having allowed 13 goals on 197 shots.
The 2021-22 regular season what feature Campbell allow 123 goals on 1403 shots, good enough for an SV% of 91.4. Although during the May 2022 Bolts-Leafs playoff series would not feature him be the only reason Leafs would go onto lose that series, he certainly had been quite inconsistent, with SV% below 90.0, in each of games, two, four and six of that series, ending up with an overall SV% 89.7 via having allowed 21 goals on 203 shots. Campbell didn’t two seasons ago have a great regular-season SV% but definitely, even if in limited action in the postseason, turn things up significantly. Little would anyone know that last regular season things would take a substantial turn for the worse as he would last just five games before Oilers’ then-GM Ken Holland would waive that goalie, sending Campbell down to the Bakersfield Condors of the AHL. Since then Campbell has not played in a non-preseason game at the NHL, AHL or ECHL level, having earlier this month entered the NHL-NHLPA Player Assistance Program. Yes Campbell’s last two seasons have been a roller-coaster although Korpisalo, even if he doesn’t enter a so-called player assistance program, had a roller-coaster season of his own with the Sens and haven’t gotten off to a great start with the Bruins. This contract of Korpisalo‘s may very well be a Bruins‘ version of the Oilers’ Jack Campbell one, at least on goaltending quality, and it may very well be, unless Korpisalo happens to be injured during next off-season’s buyout period, the Bruins will buy out what by then remains of Korpisalo’s contract.
Swayman should just tell Cam Neely that he’s gonna go tell Jacobs that he’s good with $1m/1yr, and then quietly go up to Jacobs and say that Cam said he’s on board with $10m/10yrs, turn around and point at Cam, and he’ll give the 👍🏼 and then just bounce. Worked before…
Blame Lewis Gross for pissing in Jerrys ear, Gross wants to add to his client list (23) and prove he's a hard ass negotiator, screw them both for extorting the Bruins.
Bruins: want Swayman to be starter of future
Also Bruins (according to fans and media): he hasn't proven he's starter
How does that make sense? He played over half the season last year, which if you think about it is only about a dozen games shy of what most people consider a "starter's" workload. He is the guy, but his agent is a slimy ass who wants the two sides to wage war against each other so HE can get his payday.
I refuse to believe this is on Swayman, and Bruins management aren't idiots. It's rumored that Gross withheld offer details from Dubas to Nylander, and I would be shocked if, the rumor being proven true, the same thing isn't happening here with Sway.
I feel bad for the guy getting fuckin dragged through the mud like HE'S a greedy egomaniac. He's ON THE RECORD saying he wants to be a lifelong Bruin. But the media is telling me otherwise? Fuck that.
He’s asking for a contract that only goalies with established careers get
If I was him I’d ask for a one or two year deal at 7 million and then get an extension around 9-10 million for 8 years when the cap goes up
Is any goalie today worth that much? I don't think so.
Swayman is the guy out there doing the work if they can’t pay him someone else will.
bruins is my least favourite team in the NHL, I LOVE WHAT I SEE😍🤣