Jones & Keefe: Can we buy in on Jeremy Swayman?

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00:00Keith, as the game was playing out, I thought of you yesterday saying,

00:03McAvoy's got to be strong on the back end.

00:08Swayman's got to be strong in net.

00:09And Pasternak has to carry the goal scoring.

00:11Now, I don't know if you can do that every night where one line scoring

00:15and you're only giving up one goal.

00:16I don't know if you can do that every night.

00:18Tough.

00:18But those three guys have to come up big for them to win games.

00:21And we're one game in.

00:22Last night they did.

00:23And that's why Cam Neely even yesterday is talking about how they're going to

00:27add some offense.

00:27He knows going in.

00:28They don't have any.

00:29It's all on that first line.

00:31And there's been years when the Bruins have been pretty good

00:33and they've still had one scoring line.

00:36Remember, it was always like, do you break up these guys?

00:38Because you only have one line scoring and that kind of thing.

00:40But you saw Pasternak.

00:42He's not going to have 240 points this season.

00:44But he had a monster game.

00:47Good to see Geeky picking up where he left off because that is another one

00:49of your goal scorers.

00:51And Swayman had 35 saves.

00:53So what a difference a year makes.

00:55Because last year at this time, Jeremy Swayman had, like,

00:58just finally signed his contract.

01:00He wasn't involved in training camp.

01:02He wasn't ready to go in the season opener.

01:04And then he comes out and then just never really found the footing.

01:09And he just had a bad year.

01:11And so completely different.

01:14He's available for the opener.

01:15He has 35 saves.

01:16And there's a big reason why you win the game.

01:18Look, I've never wavered on Swayman.

01:19He's annoying.

01:20Yeah.

01:21And I've got to listen to him.

01:22You know, last year was a disaster.

01:24Like, an absolute disaster.

01:25But it's because he wasn't ready to go.

01:28And some of that, I'm sorry, is on the Bruins.

01:30They gave him the contract.

01:32They caved.

01:32If they caved earlier, he would have had an offseason.

01:35He didn't.

01:36So some of it's on him.

01:37A lot of it, I think, is on the Bruins.

01:39They don't want to pay him.

01:39They ultimately caved and did.

01:40They should have done it earlier.

01:41You should have given him that number earlier than you did

01:43to get him in there and have a proper offseason.

01:46So let's see.

01:47Yeah.

01:47If he follows up last year with another stink bomb,

01:51well, then maybe he can't play.

01:52Maybe he's not worth the contract.

01:54But while I'm not happy with Swayman a year ago, I get it.

01:57He wasn't engaged.

01:58The team wasn't engaged.

01:59The whole thing was a mess.

02:01From Monty to Marchand down to the goalie,

02:04being AWOL most of the offseason.

02:07All of it was a lost year.

02:08It was a lost year.

02:09Yeah, it was, unfortunately.

02:10And, you know, one game in, long way to go.

02:13I think that opinion is looking pretty good.

02:17That last year was a lost year.

02:19Chalk it up.

02:20Swayman had a good preseason.

02:21He was awesome last night.

02:23He's even stopping the hamper, trying to knock it into his own goal.

02:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:26So what he finished with?

02:2735 saves last night.

02:28Yeah.

02:28I didn't think the goal he gave up was bad, per se.

02:31It's not like he got roasted on that goal.

02:33And I think he was pretty good last night.

02:35So I feel pretty good about that.

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