TSN: Darren Dreger on TSN 1050 Radio on what he’s listening to concerning the Boston Bruins and RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
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Aaron Korolnek: “It’s additionally, you already know, it’s additionally RFA season, with folks that also don’t have contracts signed, together with a pair huge names in Detroit like Moritz Seider and I’m making an attempt to …”
Colaiacovo: “Raymond.”
Korolnek: “Lucas Raymond, however the huge identify on the market for RFA is Jeremy Swayman proper now in Boston. And there’s plenty of studies on the market about how they’re far aside and the way there’s just a little rift occurring.
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What’s your intel saying about how this complete Swayman scenario goes to get discovered in Boston?”
Dreger: “Effectively, you’re at all times, you already know, you’re at all times a methods aside till you’re not. And that may shift in a short time you already know, with a telephone name.
I, I feel that Jeremy Swayman has performed this out completely. You understand, he hasn’t crawled right into a gap someplace and skilled by himself. Now he he stayed in Boston and skated together with his teammates and made positive that everybody there knew that he’s dedicated to being the Boston Bruins beginning goaltender. The way in which he left the season, he desires to begin this 12 months, and for him, the main focus is on being pretty much as good as he might be. And he was fairly good final 12 months, wasn’t he for Boston?
However, you already know, he’s assured they’re going to get that deal completed. I’ve learn a few of the numbers, and I, from Boston’s place, with all due respect to Jeremy Swayman, yeah, he’s going to be their starter. I imply, they’ve received Joonas Korpisalo backing him up, and you already know, that isn’t going to offer anybody who wears the Bruins colours an entire lot of confidence once you take a look at what he wasn’t capable of do with the Ottawa Senators.
However when, once you take a look at the resume of Jeremy Swayman, he hasn’t performed a ton within the Nationwide Hockey League. So I feel Boston is just a little reluctant to offer him the mega bucks.
You understand, I’ve seen that, you already know, he’s on the lookout for one thing within the neighborhood of Charlie McAvoy at, at $9.5 (million), however I additionally learn feedback from Cam Neely, not that way back, who confidently acknowledged they’re going to get it completed.
So was that assured assertion, understanding the place the negotiate, negotiation is, or is that placing little warmth on Don Sweeney, the overall supervisor to get one thing completed?
What we all know is that, you already know, particularly groups which can be contending groups and Boston, is you could’t afford to have your primary goaltender sitting within the weeds to begin the season and blown off the primary 10 video games of the season.
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So I feel you’re going to get one thing completed. I feel it’s nearer, I’m not saying it’s imminent, however I do assume that the negotiations most likely nearer than what we’re studying about.”
