Day by day Faceoff: Frank Seravalli and Jason Gregor speaking concerning the Boston Bruins and RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Gregor: “Now, there are nonetheless a couple of RFAs. Detroit followers are sitting there and saying, What about us, man? You bought (Moritz) Seider. You bought (Lucas) Raymond.
You bought Swayman in Boston, you realize, some studies about $10 million, I don’t know…”
Seravalli: “That’s not true.”
Gregor: “I believe that’s a bit of excessive. However, the place do you come out on these three offers. Some fairly important gamers.
Like, if Boston doesn’t have Ullmark and Swayman, that’d be big. Like, I believe they get it finished in the end, don’t they?”
Seravalli: “Yeah, look, the truth that Swayman was again on the Bruins observe facility with out a contract, collaborating in casual Captain skates was a extremely good signal.
Simply as a complete private apart, I really feel so, I can’t let you know what I really feel for Johnny Gaudreau’s agent, Lewis Gross, who additionally represents Swayman, to must get again to enterprise at a time like this, finally, while you’re grieving is hopefully it’s cathartic for them and useful to a minimum of take into consideration one thing else. However man, what a tough state of affairs that’s, you realize, particularly for the agent as effectively, so near Johnny and Matthew and his household. So didn’t point out him earlier, however actually pondering of Lewis Gross.
And in relation to Swayman, these two sides have been, I don’t know the way far aside they’re proper now, however going again to July, the Swayman camp was within the mid-eights, I imagine, and the Bruins had been within the low to mid sixes. In order that’s a major gulf by way of AAV.
I don’t know the place they stand on phrases of size of deal and time period, however I ponder if it’s a philosophical potential departure from the place the Bruins ideally wish to pay a goalie.
However right here’s the factor if, should you had been solely designed on paying a goalie six or six and a half million a yr, then Ullmark ought to have been your man. You need to have saved Ullmark then as a substitute. Am I loopy in saying that?”
Gergor: “No, I don’t suppose so. I believe that’s correct. And you realize, you’re in all probability going to have to regulate that quantity because the cap goes up right here the following few years. However in the end, I received’t be shocked if he is available in round $8 million, you realize, (Connor) Hellebuyck vary and stuff like that.
Now, he’s youthful, so I can see there’s plenty of the reason why. I’m positive Hellebuyck’s camps like hey or sorry, Swayman’s camp, it’s like, come on right here. We, there’s, there’s plenty of arrows right here, if we simply have a sane dialogue, the place we are able to see,”
Seravalli: “However he’s additionally performed method much less. His physique of labor, it’s 132 video games Like, It’s not practically the identical.”
Gregor: “No, no.”
Seravalli: “I’m not saying he’s not price it. I’m simply saying it’s, it’s a very totally different argument. So he hasn’t, he hasn’t received any Vezina’s and he hasn’t, and it’s nonetheless the goalie place, which is considered completely totally different than the rest and must be.”
Gregor: “Properly, it’s humorous how the goalie place, Frank, is the one the place there’s been a lower in contracts of the highest guys. Defensemen nonetheless go up. Forwards nonetheless go up.”
Seravalli: “Comprehensible. It’s a place the place, yr to yr, until you’re one of many high three or 5 guys, you, you don’t actually know what you’re getting.”
Gregor: “And also you’re taking part in fewer video games now, proper? Like, gone are the times, actually, of the 70-game goalie.”
Seravalli: “We’re by no means going to see it once more.”
Gregor: “Yeah, there’s gonna be any person who’ll do it, however I agree with you, however in all probability hardly ever see it.”
Seravalli: “You suppose we’re gonna have a goalie in some unspecified time in the future once more that performs 70 out of 82 video games. I don’t know that there’s anybody ready, with the calls for on the place, to be wholesome sufficient to play 70 video games out of 82 in a season”
Gregor: “Now, you might be proper, however I simply suppose any person will do, an damage will result in a group they usually’ll be like, you realize what, we’re in a race, we’re doing it.”
