Je publie ici parce qu’il y a beaucoup de gens beaucoup plus informés et plus intelligents que moi sur notre classement actuel du plafond salarial et sur le fonctionnement du trading de chevaux de la LNH.
Je veux apprendre.
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Il semble que Swayman soit en train de se faire ignorer et sous-estimer par les Bruins (6,2 millions de dollars sur 4 ans).
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Il est dans un RFA
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Il a des clauses d’exclusion d’équipe (je ne sais pas si nous en faisons partie)
Je sais que c’est un pari risqué… mais un accord pourrait-il être conclu en mettant Fast sur LTIR, en échangeant Andersen et peut-être Martin (si nous l’avons toujours)
Pourquoi cela pourrait-il fonctionner ou cela ne fonctionnerait-il pas ?
https://www.si.com/onsi/breakaway/news-feed-page/boston-bruins-lowballed-jeremy-swayman
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notyomamasusername
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Not gonna happen. Boston would match.
I quite strongly suspect we are not interested in paying a goalie $10+ M/yr.
Much better idea to just develop Kochetkov, who we have for $2M AAV, as our legit starter.
We do have Martin on contract, but he is likely going to the Wolves.
Fast 2.4m
Freddie 3.4m
Martin .7m
How the offer sheet would work is that the canes would offer swayman a contract but he agrees to let’s say 8 million to split the difference as you suggested.
The Bruins have one week to match the offer. If they do not then they get draft picks according to the scale of the contract I’m not sure what it is for 8 million but I suspect they are pretty high.
Before the beginning of the regular season though the hurricanes would have to offload that amount of contract value just to keep him within the cap space. The afford mentioned three players are only worth 6.5 million.
The math just doesn’t work at all. Plus there is zero need to have him on the team.
As others have said, Boston would match pretty much anything we could throw at Swayman, or we’d not have our 1st round pick for the next 4 drafts. If Boston took the picks, then we have to get cap compliant… we have like $80k in cap space (projected) right now, so say goodbye to quite a few good players and prospects. The other teams in the league would know we’re in a massive cap crunch and fleece us like we did when we got Turbo from Chicago (with Bickel) or the pick that became Jarvis from Toronto (with Hurricanes Legend Marleau).
Not really unless he clearly wants out of there. RFAs holding out is about the only leverage they have against a team, and he already declined arbitration. Also, goalies historically do not usually net a big return, however, that does and did not stop teams asking a ridiculous price for goalies. That is why Carolina picked up Martin on waivers instead of trading. No doubt the bruins would ask for something very high because they already moved out Ullmark with the intention of keeping Swayman.
Please god no (sincerely a Boston fan who follows all team subs for fantasy hockey purposes).
> looks like Swayman is getting ghosted
lol wtf are we teenagers? i swear most of these posts have 0 fucking clue how professional sports operate
We can’t afford him.
What’s your source for the “lowball” angle? Reddit posts pushing out X journalist’s bullshit rumors to drive August clicks? Or did Don Sweeney come to your cookout?
He wants $10 million+ AAV.
If you offer sheet him 10mil, and Boston doesn’t match, you can kiss the next several drafts goodbye from the picks we would have to compensate BOS for that size contract. If you offer sheet him less than 10, he likely wouldn’t sign it anyway, but if he did Boston would immediately match because their whole thing is they don’t want to commit to 10. So all you’ve really accomplished is to make their job easier.
If your offer sheet is successful, in addition to losing the picks, we are way, way, way over the cap. We would have to trade away multiple good players to get back in compliance, and other teams would fleece us on the returns because they know we’re stuck. We’d be giving away offense that we already can’t afford to lose for pennies on the dollar.
The team clearly already has an eye towards reloading next off-season. Giving Swayman 10+ now completely undoes that plan.
Goalies are notoriously finicky. Guys who can look like a brick wall one season fall apart the next. That’s a lot of money for a lot of risk. This is not a risk-taking organization.
Finally, don’t overlook the psychological impact to our current roster. That contract instantly makes Swayman our highest paid player. More than Aho, Svech, Jarvis’s new deal, or Slavin’s extension. How do the guys who have been with us who have taken team-friendly deals react to that? How does PK, our presumed goalie of the future who is making $2 million, react to us committing to Swayman as the clear number 1 for years to come? Probably not well.
10M is ridiculous, maybe if he played a full season or 2 as the clear starter. But not with 50/50 playtime. Putting that much on a goalie is just too risky, it’s only worked with Vasy and Bob