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 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 already know, some studies about $10 million, I don’t know…”
Seravalli: “That’s not true.”
Gregor: “I feel that’s a little bit excessive. However, the place do you come out on these three offers. Some fairly vital gamers.
Like, if Boston doesn’t have Ullmark and Swayman, that’d be large. Like, I feel they get it performed finally, don’t they?”
Seravalli: “Yeah, look, the truth that Swayman was again on the Bruins follow facility with out a contract, taking part in casual Captain skates was a very good signal.
Simply as a complete private apart, I really feel so, I can’t inform you what I really feel for Johnny Gaudreau’s agent, Lewis Gross, who additionally represents Swayman, to need to 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 troublesome scenario that’s, you already know, particularly for the agent as nicely, so near Johnny and Matthew and his household. So didn’t point out him earlier, however actually considering of Lewis Gross.
And in the case of Swayman, these two sides have been, I don’t understand how far aside they’re proper now, however going again to July, the Swayman camp was within the mid-eights, I consider, and the Bruins had been within the low to mid sixes. In order that’s a big gulf when it comes to AAV.
I don’t know the place they stand on phrases of size of deal and time period, however I’m wondering 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, if you happen to 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. It’s best to 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 already know, you’re in all probability going to have to regulate that quantity because the cap goes up right here the subsequent few years. However finally, I gained’t be stunned if he is available in round $8 million, you already know, (Connor) Hellebuyck vary and stuff like that.
Now, he’s youthful, so I can see there’s numerous the 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 numerous arrows right here, if we simply have a sane dialogue, the place we are able to see,”
Seravalli: “However he’s additionally performed approach much less. His physique of labor, it’s 132 video games Like, It’s not almost the identical.”
Gregor: “No, no.”
Seravalli: “I’m not saying he’s not value it. I’m simply saying it’s, it’s a very completely different argument. So he hasn’t, he hasn’t gained any Vezina’s and he hasn’t, and it’s nonetheless the goalie place, which is seen completely completely different than anything and ought 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 any individual 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 sooner or later 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 could possibly be proper, however I simply suppose any individual will do, an harm will result in a crew and so they’ll be like, you already know what, we’re in a race, we’re doing it.”