10 million dollars for Jeremy Swayman?!
10 million dollars for Jeremy Swayman?! Who has the leverage?
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00:00Uh, yesterday, on the maiden voyage of the Jones and Keefe program here on the station.
00:05Yup, the show sounded good yesterday.
00:06Sounded great.
00:07It really did.
00:08I listened to a lot of the show yesterday.
00:10Those guys worked together before, and you could tell, and it was a good show yesterday.
00:15Well, Rich Keefe came on, and on the very first show, had a bit of a scoop for the people.
00:21This is what Keefe said about Jeremy Swayman.
00:25Jeremy Swayman, as we know, has not signed a contract with the Boston Bruins.
00:29Scoop starts for them very shortly.
00:31You're saying, what is going on there?
00:34Went to arbitration with the team a year ago, was not happy with that, very publicly was
00:38not happy with that.
00:39And Scoops Keefe, here to report, or scoop, I don't know, to report.
00:43We kind of scoop, right?
00:44Jeremy Swayman looking for $10 million a year.
00:48I'm sorry?
00:49That is the scoop that I have.
00:50He is looking for $10 million a year.
00:52That would put him with Sergei Bobrovsky and Carey Price.
00:58Yeah, I would believe that.
01:01Yeah, I would too, but that means he's asking for too much.
01:05Okay, well, that's what you do in a negotiation.
01:07You ask for too much, and you meet in the middle.
01:09I agree.
01:10I just don't know if the Bruins are going to meet.
01:11His middle is probably $9 million, and that's the exact amount that they have cap space-wise.
01:17That's it.
01:18If I'm the Bruins, I'm telling him, I cannot pay you more than Andre Vazilevsky, because
01:21he has Stanley Cups, and you don't.
01:24That's the line I would draw.
01:26Yeah, but he could say, yeah, well, you got rid of your other great goalie, so here's
01:29what you've got.
01:30Take it or leave it.
01:31Like, that is...
01:32That's a dumb move.
01:34They've put themselves in this situation.
01:35But he's an RFA still, so he's like, they have total control of this situation.
01:39Just for this year, though.
01:40Yeah, sure.
01:41But he's willing to say, all right, I'll play this year, and guess what?
01:45I'm gonzini after the season, because you're Courtney, you're right.
01:50He has all the leverage.
01:52He played this...
01:53I don't think he has all the leverage.
01:55Oh, Sean, you're out of your mind.
01:56If he gets hurt or struggles at all this year, the price just drops precipitously.
02:01He's never won a Vezna, he's never even been to a Stanley Cup, like, the price would change
02:07dramatically.
02:08Yeah, but he's betting on himself, though.
02:09Do you think he's gonna be bad?
02:10I think he'll be good.
02:11I don't think he'll be good as he was in the playoffs this past year.
02:14Like, I think he'll be really good, though.
02:15He'll be really good, so the price won't drop.
02:18Yes, it will.
02:19It will not be $10 million.