TSN: Darren Dreger on TSN 1050 Radio on what he feels about the Boston Bruins and RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
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Aaron Korolnek: “And, you know, it's also RFA season, with people who don't have signed contracts yet, including a few big names in Detroit like Moritz Seider and I'm trying to…”
Colaiacovo: “Raymond.”
Korolnek: “Lucas Raymond, but the biggest name out there for RFA is Jeremy Swayman right now in Boston. And there are a lot of reports out there about how distant they are and that there's a bit of a rift going on.
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What are your thoughts on how this whole Swayman situation will play out in Boston?”
Dreger: “Well, you always know, you're always apart until you're not. And that can change very quickly you know, over the phone.
Me, I think Jeremy Swayman played this well. You know, he hasn't gone into a hole somewhere and trained on his own. He now lives in Boston and skated with his teammates and made sure everyone there knew he was committed to being the starting goaltender for the Boston Bruins. The way he left the season, he wants to start this year and for him the focus is on being as good as possible. And he was great last year, wasn't he from Boston?
But, you know, he's sure they're going to fulfill that deal. I read some of the numbers, and I, on behalf of Boston, with all due respect to Jeremy Swayman, yes, he will be their starter. I mean, they have Joonas Korpisalo backing him up, and you know, that's not going to give anyone wearing Bruins colors a lot of confidence when you look at what he was able to do with Ottawa. Senators.
But if you look at Jeremy Swayman's resume, he hasn't played a ton in the National Hockey League. So I think Boston is reluctant to give him mega bucks.
You know, I saw that, you know, he wants something in Charlie McAvoy's place, for $9.5 (million), but I also read the comments of Cam Neely, not long ago, who confidently said that I would do it.
So is that a confident statement, knowing where the negotiation, negotiation is, or is it putting a little heat on Don Sweeney, the general manager to do something?
What we know is, you know, especially the teams that are playing against Boston, is that you don't know if your best goalkeeper is sitting on the beach to start the season and play the first 10 games of the season.
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So I think you're going to do something. I think it's close, I'm not saying it's close, but I think the negotiations are probably closer than what we're reading about.”
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