Jeremy Swayman Benchmark

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00:00so here's something to consider as well right like scoring is up across the league so what used to be

00:06elite was probably like a 925 and you still have some guys that can post that right like like igor

00:10is going to post that probably in new york hellebuck will post that in winnipeg i think 9 10 to 9 15 is

00:15is a good number now because of the way that scoring has increased i'm holding out for 92

00:20percent this year yeah that'd be i mean that would be that would make them an elite team

00:24if they get that they're gonna be they're gonna be an elite team but if you look at swayman right

00:29his first his previous three years before last year as as a full-time nhl or 9 14 9 20 9 16

00:37can we get closer to that i'll take 9 10 if you're 9 10 you're gonna win 10 more games it's just you

00:43are and you're gonna be a better team for it and so i i i do think that like that is a realistic

00:48benchmark he's making 8 million and i know other guys are gonna make more money and blah blah blah

00:53it's gonna you know the contract's gonna age well i've been saying that you know but you need to have

00:58the bounce back year because if you don't we're having a much different discussion this time next

01:03year we're having a much different if you get two straight bad years out of your number one goaltender

01:07you kind of don't have a number one goaltender and you're you're back to square one being like

01:11can we trade this guy what do we what do we do here because you can't just have three years of an

01:15eight you can't be entering year three of a potential 890 goaltender making 8 million that just it just

01:21can't happen the only way it can happen is if you're jordan binnington and you won a stanley cup

01:26in 2019 which swayman has not done so he does not have that benefit of the doubt that binnington has

01:33where you can have crappy regular season numbers but you know he's going to be there in the playoffs

01:37you know he's going to have the the big pressure saves that he had for team canada in the four

01:41nations and for the blues when they almost upset the winnipeg jets in the first round so

01:46like he's got a lot to prove here right and and if you're a bruins fan listening to this right now

01:51and you heard the swayman comments and he's driving you mental i can't tell you that you're wrong

01:57because i think that swayman is at the point now where you're hoping that you know no more talking

02:06go out and do it no more talking i i don't want to hear you talk anymore you talked enough last year

02:10you talked enough you know during the season about how everything's gonna be fine you talked

02:14on breakup day about how you never want to go through this again and now you're saying you're in a

02:17better place just go and show me i don't care how you say it just go and show me and that's where

02:21i think swayman and the bruins are right now