“[This] could be the last time I wear a Bruins jersey. I know I’m going to do everything in my power to be a Bruin for a long time.”
With the start of the NHL regular season less than a week away, Jeremy Swayman has still not signed a new deal with the Boston Bruins.
This week has brought about plenty of drama in Swayman’s ongoing contractual stalemate with Boston, especially after Cam Neely and Swayman’s agent — Lewis Gross — traded retorts over the latest offers put on the table.
These already contentious talks have seemingly reached a boiling point, with Swayman reportedly pondering a trade over the final days of the preseason.
But based on published quotes from NHL’s new Amazon Prime Video docuseries, it appears as though Swayman was bracing for an uncertain future in Boston long before things came to a head this week.
Episode 3 of “FACEOFF: Inside the NHL” primarily focuses on Swayman, Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk, and the heated second-round bout between Boston and Florida in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
After coming up short in six games to the eventual Stanley Cup champions, Swayman expressed some doubt about what awaited him as a restricted free agent during the summer.
“I mean, I don’t want it to end,” Swayman said on the show, per ESPN. “[This] could be the last time I wear a Bruins jersey. I know I’m going to do everything in my power to be a Bruin for a long time. As a kid growing up in Alaska, this was in my wildest [expletive] dreams.
