Jeremy Swayman and Igor Shesterkin May Finally Get Their Fair Share NHL Goaltending

Are goalies being looked down upon when it comes to compensation?

The goaltending market takes center stage in the free market. Restricted free agent Jeremy Swayman is still looking to get paid as one of the top-tier forwards in the NHL.

Although Igor Shesterkin wants to reset the goaltending market, he will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season as he enters the final year of his contract with the New York Rangers.

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You see strikers and defenders getting their fair share of the market, but goalies haven’t, apart from a few goals. That may change.

As TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button discussed in a recent episode of Smokehouse, he believes that draftees need to get their fair share of the market.

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Craig Button: “Jeremy Swayman, one of the best forwards in the NHL, is still unsigned. And you ask the question, where is it wrong? But there is a big question that needs to be asked, which is, are goalies not respected when it comes to compensation?

Keep this in mind. Carey Price remains the NHL’s Highest Paid Goalie in terms of AAV at $10.5 million. The contract he signed in 2017. So if you consider the impact of goaltenders, most recently, Sergei Bobrovsky, 82 regular season games and playoffs, 52 Stanley Cup wins. Andrei Vasilevsky, all the wisdom he had, understanding that he won the Conn Smythe Trophy.

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And it doesn’t make sense that you don’t have your goalie signed at the highest price, because everyone is talking about winning the Stanley Cup, and your chances of winning the Stanley Cup, if you don’t have an above-average goalie. , at least, is zero. And why is there no compensation associated with this.

Consider these Conn Smythe Trophy winners. There are 59 of them. 17 times the goalkeeper has won the Conn Smythe Trophy. There’s no way you can look at a supervisory position and not think that they don’t deserve to be compensated more. It will be interesting to see where Igor Shesterkin will be paid after this upcoming season, when he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

I think he’s one of the top five guys in the league. Since the all-star break, there is no one better than Igor Shesterkin.

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But the argument that, oh, they’re not everyday players. Pitchers are not everyday players. One out of five games they play, yes, in the playoffs, maybe one out of four. You have no pitching, you have no chance to win. You have no goals, you have no chance to win.

So if you consider where goalie compensation is total, and you certainly think that Carey Price remains the highest paid goalkeeper, something has to change, because at the moment, goalies are not valued for what their value is and their value is important.

They don’t have to play every game. We certainly see tandems now in the regular season, but we see one goaltender trying to help a team on its way to the Stanley Cup. If you don’t have that one goalie, you don’t win. Pay the goals.”

It will be interesting to see how these negotiations play out with Swayman and the Bruins, as well as Shesterkin and the Rangers.