Each day Faceoff: Frank Seravalli and Jason Gregor speaking in regards to the Boston Bruins and RFA goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Gregor: “Now, there are nonetheless just a few 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 recognize, some studies about $10 million, I don’t know…”
Seravalli: “That’s not true.”
Gregor: “I feel that’s just a little 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 large. Like, I feel they get it performed in the end, don’t they?”
Seravalli: “Yeah, look, the truth that Swayman was again on the Bruins observe facility with no 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 should get again to enterprise at a time like this, ultimately, while you’re grieving is hopefully it’s cathartic for them and useful to at the very least take into consideration one thing else. However man, what a tough state of affairs that’s, you recognize, 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 have 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 need to pay a goalie.
However right here’s the factor if, should you have 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 must have stored Ullmark then as an alternative. Am I loopy in saying that?”
Gergor: “No, I don’t suppose so. I feel that’s correct. And you recognize, 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 recognize, (Connor) Hellebuyck vary and stuff like that.
Now, he’s youthful, so I can see there’s a lot of explanation why. I’m certain Hellebuyck’s camps like hey or sorry, Swayman’s camp, it’s like, come on right here. We, there’s, there’s a lot of arrows right here, if we simply have a sane dialogue, the place we will see,”
Seravalli: “However he’s additionally performed means 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 completely 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 seen completely completely different than anything and needs to be.”
Gregor: “Effectively, 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 enjoying 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 someone 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 in a position, 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 someone will do, an damage will result in a workforce and so they’ll be like, you recognize what, we’re in a race, we’re doing it.”
