Boston Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman signs an eight-year, $66 million contract.
The Boston Bruins signed goalie Jeremy Swayman on Sunday to an eight-year, $66 million contract, concluding a second summer of challenging negotiations just two days before the season opener.
This agreement follows a year after the team took Swayman to arbitration and comes shortly after Bruins president Cam Neely remarked, “I have 64 million reasons why I’d be playing right now.” Swayman’s agent, Lewis Gross, clarified that the team had not offered the 25-year-old from Alaska $64 million.
Ultimately, the deal was finalized, preventing a potential holdout that could have disrupted the season for the Original Six franchise, which has recorded six consecutive 100-point seasons but has not advanced past the second round of the playoffs since 2019.
With an average annual value of $8.25 million, Swayman is now among the top five highest-paid goalies in the NHL, despite never having served as a team’s sole starting goalie. Only Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky, Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, and Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck earn more.
As a restricted free agent, Swayman had missed all of training camp, and there was a December 1 deadline for him to sign or risk sitting out the entire season, which would have been a significant setback for a team that had two top goalies—Swayman and 2023 Vezina Trophy winner Linus Ullmark—sharing duties until the playoffs last year.
