Having still not been able to come to an agreement with its number one goalie, the staff of the Boston Bruins decided to bring the negotiations into the public arena.
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At a press conference with general manager Don Sweeney and owner Jeremy Jacobs, Neely was blunt when it came to the 25-year-old goaltender who still doesn’t have a contract. in preparation for the 2024-2025 season.
“I don’t want to go into the details of the requests. But I know that if I were in his place, I would have 64 million reasons to play right now,” he told the media present in Boston.
This confidence did not go unnoticed. If we read between the lines, we understand that the Bruins have made an offer worth a total of $64 million to their number one goalie, most likely for a period of eight years. This contract offer would have allowed Swayman to earn an average of $8 million per season.
However, the Swayman clan would have demands that would exceed this amount. Neely even admitted to having been “surprised” by the contractual demands of his foal.
The Bruins, however, maintain their intention to reach an agreement with their goaltender. GM Don Sweeney reiterated that the team “was better with Jeremy in the lineup.” Despite everything, the team’s head coach, Jim Montgomery, has already announced that newcomer Joonas Korpisalo, obtained from the Ottawa Senators in the trade involving Linus Ullmark, will be the starting goaltender for the first game of the season .
Swayman on Monday became the last restricted free agent in the circuit to still not have a contract in his pocket for the 2024-2025 season following the signing of Nikita Alexandrov with the Saint-Louis Blues.
The goaltender from Alaska played 44 games with the Bruins last campaign, collecting 25 victories. He also maintained a goals-against average of 2.53 and an efficiency percentage of 0.916. He also guarded all of his team’s games during the playoffs.
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