10 million dollars for Jeremy Swayman?!

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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.

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