Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – A Bevy of Extensions as Coaching Camps Start episode. There’s nonetheless a niche between the Boston Bruins and Jeremy Swayman on an eight-year deal. Friedman doesn’t assume the Bruins would think about buying and selling Swayman, and what Sweeney mentioning December 1st could imply.
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Friedman: “Swayman, once more, it was a loopy day, the opposite day. And I’m not ripping some other reporters. I’ve been proper, I’ve been incorrect, and I shall be proper and I shall be incorrect once more. So I don’t wish to kick different individuals once they’re down, as a result of I do know what it’s wish to be incorrect.
I simply don’t assume, I simply assume that there’s nonetheless, I believe there’s nonetheless a niche on an eight-year time period. It could possibly at all times change with one telephone name, however there’s nonetheless a niche on an eight-year time period.
Now, the one factor I do wish to say about Swayman is that this, I had some individuals asking me, do you assume the Bruins will, will pivot and think about buying and selling Swayman? Simply hand over and go. I haven’t spoken to Don Sweeney. He’s making an attempt to maintain a low profile, other than making it clear that he’s not at all times pleased with all the reporting right here.
However my impressions are that the, the Pink Sox. Are you able to consider I simply referred to as them the Pink Sox? My impressions are that the Bruins don’t wish to commerce Swayman. Like they’d Swayman-Ullmark. They felt they needed to make one transfer. I don’t consider they wish to make two.
Like I actually do consider once they say that when, when Sweeney got here out the opposite day and mentioned, ‘We wish to signal Swayman.’ I consider that. I consider there may be their purpose, and buying and selling him will not be what they’re contemplating or wish to do.”
Bukauska: “Yeah, that might be …”
Friedman: “Which, after all, means two minutes after this podcast drops, there’s going to be a blockbuster. The sense I get on Thursday, they don’t wish to do it.
Bukauskas: “That will be every kind of goofy. What about when Sweeney talked about the December 1st deadline, So quickly. What did you consider that?”
Friedman: “I initially was like, uh-oh. My first response was, hearth marshal Jim. Uh oh.”
Bukauska: “Hearth Marshal Invoice.”
Friedman: “Hearth Marshal Invoice. Pink Sox – Bruins. Hearth Marshal Jim. Hearth Marshal Invoice.”
Bukauskas: “Jim Carrey, so that you’re forgiven there.”
Friedman: “I’m like, I’m method off in the beginning of this yr. I’m struggling in the beginning of this podcast.
I, after I first heard that, I believed what that was, was, you realize, simply an acknowledgment that Lewis Gross, who represents Swayman, additionally represents William Nylander. And he did this a number of years in the past, December 1st, they usually obtained him signed, like minutes earlier than the deadline.
I don’t consider, after serious about it and asking round, that that was what Sweeney was doing, on this specific case. What I believe he was doing was saying, if I discussed, and I do know this, there are individuals who discuss this, so I believe it’s true.
The second you point out a deadline like the beginning of the season, it hangs over the whole lot. The followers level at it. The media factors at it. The agent factors at it. Everybody factors at it.
So I believe what Sweeney was doing, and he’s a fairly good man, is he was sitting again there and saying, I’m going to say December 1st in order that there’s no different date or deadline that anybody can use as a leverage or strain level in opposition to us. That’s what I believe that was.”
