Did the Boston Bruins Put the Heat on Jeremy Swayman to Work a Deal

TSN Hockey Insider Chis Johnston joined Toronto Radio on Monday to discuss the situation between Jeremy Swayman and the Boston Bruins and suggests that the Bruins put pressure and heat on Swayman to settle this. immediately.

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Jamie McLennan: “Talk about feeling good or not. What do you make of Sea Bass’s (Cam Neely) comment in Boston? He didn’t look too happy and, you know, Swagman’s camp; What are you doing with this whole situation?”

Chris Johnston: “I mean, obviously, it’s hard to learn from anything, but everything that was said today, absolutely, was designed to put a little heat on Jeremy Swayman in the Situation.

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The Bruins clearly feel they made a solid offer. And it’s rare in this day and age that you have someone in Cam Neely’s position, it was public, but, I mean, it wasn’t hard to read between the lines to suggest, you know what he said the Bruins have been giving. , this time, to Jeremy Swayman.

You also had Jim Montgomery come out saying Korpisalo will start right now, opening night, you got Charlie Jacobs saying this like the team is losing the title. I mean, it was like they were trying to apply some pressure. And that, that’s all the team can do in this kind of situation.

Cam Neely made $64 million and Jeremy Swayman’s agent has never discussed that number.

If they’re really going to stick to their number, if they’re not going to move a little bit toward Swayman. And, I’ll tell you, I just got a feeling about this guy, that he talks a lot, even though we’re at this stage, and that he’s the last unsigned RFA in the league.

I truly believe that he is the type of player who will stick to his guns, who will not buckle under this type of pressure. But I think the themes were raised with that press conference today (Monday), so even just the fact that you have those gentlemen speaking on the podium, it was only 12 days ago, Don Sweeney was available to start camp.

I mean, a little inside media thing here. But I mean unusual, just to, you know, in that quick succession, you know, bring out some of the top people in your organization to hear these kinds of questions, and especially if you have, you know, a franchise. type of player, a skilled player, who is under contract with the club.

Who has more power: Jeremy Swayman or the Boston Bruins?

I mean, they’re trying to put some heat on them, I would suggest, and we’ll see, we’ll see if it shows results, because we’re not going to go really far here from the start of the season. And you know when, the stakes will be even higher, if they are not signed. “

As we learned later on Monday, Lewis Gross, Jeremy Swayman’s agent, was not moved by the pressure or the heat of the situation when he issued a statement contradicting Neely’s comments.

Pressure and deadlines can be the only things that push contract negotiations to resolution. But it may take some time before this is resolved.