Day by 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 number 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 reviews about $10 million, I don’t know…”
Seravalli: “That’s not true.”
Gregor: “I believe that’s a bit 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 accomplished 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 inform you 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, once 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 already know, particularly for the agent as properly, so near Johnny and Matthew and his household. So didn’t point out him earlier, however definitely considering of Lewis Gross.
And relating to 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 imagine, and the Bruins have been within the low to mid sixes. In order that’s a big 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, in the event 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. It is best to have saved Ullmark then as an alternative. Am I loopy in saying that?”
Gergor: “No, I don’t assume so. I believe 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 following few years. However in the end, I gained’t be shocked 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 a lot 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 a lot of arrows right here, if we simply have a sane dialogue, the place we will see,”
Seravalli: “However he’s additionally performed method 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 price it. I’m simply saying it’s, it’s a completely 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 the rest 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 assume 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 possibly can be proper, however I simply assume someone will do, an damage will result in a crew and so they’ll be like, you already know what, we’re in a race, we’re doing it.”
