What's the deal with Swayman?
What's the deal with the Bruins and Jeremy Swayman's contract? Razor: "It's going to get done!" What does Andrew "Razor" Raycroft think about the Bruins offseason thus far?
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00:00What, what is the deal with Swayman?
00:02Is this going to get done?
00:03What's going on?
00:03Yeah, it's going to get done.
00:05It's just, like I said, everybody, especially this year that the Stanley
00:10cup went all the way to the end.
00:11There was like three days till the draft, three days, free agency, three
00:14days to development camp, and everybody's gone, everybody has their phones off.
00:20Everybody has taking some time.
00:22This is like the, for the three or four weeks right now of, you
00:26know, the season being actually off.
00:28So, uh, I, it's going to get done.
00:31Um, uh, they've gone through this a little bit last season.
00:35So the business side of it, they, they know where each other stands
00:39and have gone through it before.
00:40And, um, you know, fortunately for Jeremy, he's, he's very important
00:45and, and wants to be paid as such.
00:48And I give you credit because you were a voice at Nesson against the goalie
00:54duo entering the post season.
00:56You were kind of steadfast in this opinion.
00:59You were right.
01:00Um, did Don Sweeney make a mistake in not unloading Linus earlier?
01:06Um, well, no, well, they tried to, and Linus had, Linus was able to, to
01:10veto that and, and that was his right as a player and I'm always a player's right guy.
01:15But I mean, maybe if you try longer in the off season,
01:19well, I, I think, so what happened last?
01:22I think they would, I think, I don't know.
01:25I think that they tried last season as well, last off season.
01:30What happened last off season was because of the salary cap, no one made a trade.
01:34It was the first time ever in the NHL draft that no trades were made last season.
01:39Um, so there just wasn't a market.
01:41You couldn't get rid of anybody because everyone was up against the salary cap
01:45from the pandemic a couple of years earlier.
01:47Um, and everything needed to reset this summer, last summer.
01:51They just didn't have an opportunity to, I think they would have, if they could
01:54have, um, and I think they've got to, they traded Linus at the first possible
01:59time that they could actually do so.
02:02Um, which was just a couple of weeks ago.
02:03Linus aside, are you happy with all of the trades, all the movement that they've made?
02:07Like, I think everybody kind of expected that Ross Grislyk, like
02:11those guys were going to be gone.
02:12And yeah, yeah.
02:13I love, I love Zdorov.
02:14I think that's, they needed, how many times have I sat in this chair and talked
02:19about that deadlines, you know, or needing bigger defensemen, stronger, more
02:23physical people call in and talk about that as a left shot guy, basically sets
02:29up the, the, the Bruins back end for, for five years here, uh, you have McAvoy,
02:34Linholm and Zdorov lined up for those years, all on good numbers, all on
02:39good salary as the cap rises.
02:41So that's a great, great signing.
02:43The Bruins needed a centerman.
02:44We've all talked about the centerman to play with David Pasternak.
02:47Uh, the centerman's not winning, you know, losing Bergeron and Crecci.
02:51They went out and got the best center free agent available.
02:55Um, they, you have to pay for that of course.
02:57And that's why Linholm got $49 million, $50 million.
03:01It's, it's a good signing though.
03:03He's a great player.
03:04He's very, fits the mold of what Bruins centers need to do, play 200 foot game,
03:10play defense, uh, and work from the bat front from their own defensive end.
03:14So I think in that respect, he's a great, great play.
03:18Uh, it'll be, what I'm most curious about now is, is who's the
03:21young guy that's going to step up?
03:23Because they weren't able to go out and get another, uh, top six forward.
03:27And they lost a winger in Jake DeBruys that has played in the top
03:30six for them the last few years.
03:31So who is it?
03:33Lysell?
03:33Is it Merkulov?
03:34Is it somebody that we haven't heard of?
03:36Who, like a Patra from last season, who steps in and fills in that top six void?
03:41Uh, and, and that's, what's very interesting to me at this point.
03:45And so Monty, the, the head coach last year, obviously fell short.
03:51What year before fell short after the great regulations and release
03:55advanced to the second round.
03:56Where is he?
03:57Is this, is he as safe as ever?
03:59Is he, what, what's the deal with Monty and the organization?
04:02Yeah, he's, you know, he's, he's safe as an NHL coach can be.
04:06I think, I, I don't know if I had a computer, I'd look it up really quickly.
04:10I would assume he's one of the, the longest tenured coaches in the
04:14national hockey league being two years.
04:17Uh, there's a lot of turnover in the NHL.
04:19It's easy to fire coaches, uh, in, in the NHL in hockey.
04:24So I would guess he's in the top 10 of longest tenured.
04:28So that means, you know, you, you start ending up on borrowed
04:31time, three years, four years in that all beings.
04:34And that's just like in that I'm, I'm being very general in that.
04:37That's what coaches lifespans are.
04:40Right.
04:40I think he's done a great job.
04:41I think getting through the first round and finding a way to be
04:44Toronto after being up three, one, that that's a huge weight off of
04:48not just his shoulders, but a lot of the player's shoulders.
04:51And I thought they played Florida as well as anybody played
04:55Florida in, in the, in the playoffs.
04:58Um, they had opportunities.
05:00I think the, the one thing that leaves a bad taste in the mouth
05:03is not winning at home in, in the second round, losing all three
05:07games that they played against the Florida Panthers in the garden.
05:09That one stings a little bit, but from a coaching perspective, Jay
05:13Leach is coming in as an assistant, a new assistant, so that, that
05:16changes the makeup a little bit, but he's in a good spot.
05:19I think the players really enjoy playing for him.
05:21He's a great communicator and, uh, he's, he's had them play a really good style.
05:25That all being said, you need to win and you need to continue to make
05:28playoffs to, to have your job in the NHL.
05:31I don't think he's top 10 on the list.
05:33I'm looking at Bruce Cassidy number seven.
05:35Well, he would be the same as Cassidy.
05:37Okay.
05:37Right.
05:37So they're taught they're all tied for seven.
05:39So there's a, there's, there's probably like five or six guys that are two years
05:43that are all coming up on any of the lists.
05:45Yeah.
05:45Cause him and you know, um, one thing for me is I, I, I think it may happen
05:52that their regular season is not as successful as the last two.
05:55Yeah.
05:56And I feel like that's fine.
05:57Yes.
05:58They, we all, myself included, not, you know, I'm a relatively big hockey
06:03purist, but not the biggest, um, having two great goalies over the course of
06:0882 games is going to give you a bump over basically every team in the NHL.
06:13And this year, you know, I don't know how, uh, what's his name
06:17from Worcester who's coming up.
06:19Or no, the guy they traded for.
06:19Yeah.
06:20Corpus Salo.
06:21So, I mean, so I don't know.
06:22He's obviously not going to be as good as Linus.
06:23I don't think so.
06:24Yeah.
06:24But, but that'll be fine.
06:26Right.
06:26I mean, like it's, there'll be a little, they may suffer.
06:28Obviously they're more talented this year, you know, with the, with the moves
06:31they've just made in the off season, but at the, in the, in the net, they're
06:34not going to be as dominant throughout 82 games.
06:36And I think that'll be fine.
06:37Yeah, it's, I agree a hundred percent.
06:40And to, to think that they're going to start the season the way they have the
06:44last two years, where they basically went 19 and one in the first 20, like
06:47last season, they did the same thing.
06:49It was, they ran, rattled off eight in a row.
06:51It's, you know, in October, I don't, it's really hard to see how
06:55that is actually going to happen again.
06:59Um, I suppose you can't discount it cause they have done it two years in a
07:02row with two very different type teams.
07:05Um, but, but I would agree that I think the division's gotten better.
07:09That's a lot of it, right?
07:10Like what the NHL schedule dictates kind of how many games you win as well.
07:15And, and the, you know, the Detroit's the Ottawa's the Buffalo
07:18seem to have gotten better.
07:19And that just takes a couple of wins here and there away from the Bruins.
07:23I think, I don't think anyone's concerned about that.
07:26I think last year there would have been, because we didn't know
07:28what the team was going to be.