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high resolution photography glowing near yellow
light. In
2023-24, Swayman posted his third straight season with at least 20 wins
and a .910 save percentage. He made 30
saves on 31 shots to push the home Bruins past Toronto 2-1 on May 4th. This card is an absolute must have for any Jeremy
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Jeremy Ryan Swayman (born November 24, 1998), nicknamed "Sway" or
“Bulldog”, is an American professional ice
hockey goaltender for the Boston Bruins of
the National Hockey League (NHL). The Bruins selected him in the
fourth round, 111th overall, of the 2017 NHL entry draft.
Born and raised
in Anchorage, Alaska, Swayman began attending Alaska Anchorage
Seawolves men's ice hockey games as an infant with his father, and he took
up goaltending at the age of five. After being cut from his local Kenai
River Brown Bears, Swayman played one season of junior ice
hockey with the Pikes Peak Miners. After that, he joined the United
States Hockey League to play one season with the Sioux Falls
Stampede. After being drafted by the Bruins, Swayman played college ice
hockey for three seasons with the Maine Black Bears. Swayman had a
.939 save percentage and 2.07 goals against average during
the 2019–20 season, and he was awarded both the Hockey East Player of
the Year award and the Mike Richter Award for the top collegiate
goaltender.
Swayman left Maine after
three years to join the Bruins. His performance in the remainder of the season
led Bruce Cassidy to name Swayman Tuukka Rask's backup
goaltender in the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, but he appeared in only one
postseason game. After Rask and former backup goalie Jaroslav
Halák left the Bruins in 2021 and 2022 respectively, Swayman formed a
goaltending platoon with veteran Linus Ullmark, with whom he won
the William M. Jennings Trophy for allowing the fewest goals in
the 2022–23 season.
Swayman was born on November
24, 1998, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Anne Boesenberg and Ken Swayman.
Swayman is Jewish and had a bar mitzvah. He began watching college
ice hockey games as an infant when his father would take him to watch
the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves. Swayman first played as
a goaltender when he was five years old, and he quickly became
attached to the position. He played youth ice hockey around Anchorage and
spent two years with the team at South Anchorage High School before
starting his junior ice hockey career. He had expected to stay
in Alaska and play for the Kenai River Brown Bears of the North
American Hockey League, but he was cut from the team in favor of two older
goaltenders. Instead, through the help of several family friends, Swayman
joined the Pikes Peak Miners of the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League.
In 18 games for the Miners, Swayman had a .940 save percentage (SV%)
and a 1.79 goals against average (GAA).
After one season with the
Miners, Swayman was selected by the Sioux Falls Stampede of
the United States Hockey League in the 12th round of the 2016 USHL
Phase II Draft. Sioux Falls coach Scott Owens had first taken notice of Swayman
during his season in Pikes Peak, and he remained impressed by the goaltender
during training camp. After leading all USHL goaltenders in preseason save
percentage, Swayman stopped 48 shots on goal in his Stampede debut, a
3–2 shootout win over the Tri-City Storm. In 32 games with
Sioux Falls, Swayman posted a 7–18–3 record, .914 SV%, and 2.90 GAA, and
the NHL Central Scouting Bureau named him the No.
12 prospect among all North American goaltenders. At the end of the
USHL season, the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey
League (NHL) selected Swayman in the fourth round, 111th overall, of
the 2017 NHL entry draft.
At the time the Bruins
drafted him, Swayman had already committed to playing college ice hockey for
the University of Maine, beginning in the 2017–18 season. Swayman
made his collegiate hockey debut on October 7, 2017, making
26 saves but taking the loss in Maine's 5–1 defeat
against UConn. After making 40 saves to give the Black Bears a 5–2
win over Boston University on November 17, the Hockey
East conference named Swayman their Rookie of the Week. He received the
award again on January 8 after posting his first career shutout, stopping
all 31 shots he faced in a 3–0 win over Boston University. He was named
the Hockey East Rookie of the Month for the month of January after going 4–2–2
with a conference rookie-leading .928 SV% and 2.34 GAA in eight
games. Swayman finished his freshman season with a .920 save
percentage (SV%) and 2.74 goals against average (GAA), while his
15–13–3 record was the best of any Maine rookie goaltender since Ben Bishop.
He was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team and was an All-Star
Honorable Mention.
Swayman's first Hockey East
honor of the 2018–19 season came on November 19, when he was named
the Defensive Player of the Week after making 79 saves in a two-game series
against Boston University. He won the award again on December 3 after
stopping 74 shots in a two-game series against Vermont. On January
25, Swayman made a career-high 53 saves in Maine's 4–3 upset win
over UMass. After going 5–2–1 with a .918 SV% and 2.86 GAA in the
month of February, with 30 or more saves in six of his outings, Swayman was
named the Hockey East Goaltender of the Month. Swayman finished his
sophomore season with a .919 SV%, a 2.77 GAA, and a 14–17–4 record in 35 games,
and he was named to the All-Hockey East Third Team.
After a difficult start to
the 2019–20 season, in which Swayman made 52 saves but Maine lost 7–0
to Providence, Swayman posted a .962 SV% and 1.22 GAA in the next six
games. He was named the Hockey East Goaltender of the Month for February
2020 after going 4–2–1 with 210 saves for the month, including two shutouts.
Swayman finished the season with an 18–11–5 record, .939 SV%, 2.07 GAA, and led
all NCAA Division I goaltenders with 1,099 saves for the year. He
earned a number of accolades at the end of the season, beginning with the
Walter Brown Award, given to the top American-born college hockey player
in New England. Hockey East named him a First-Team All-Star,
the Goaltending Champion, and the Player of the Year. He was also an
All-USCHO Second Team honoree, the first Maine goaltender to receive CCM/AHCA
All-American East first-team honors since Spencer Abbott in
2012, and the New England Hockey Writers Association named him their
Leonard Fowle New England MVP. He was the runner-up for the Hobey
Baker Award, given to the top men's college ice hockey player in the United
States, an honor which went that year to Scott Perunovich of
the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. Swayman closed out the 2020 awards season
with the Mike Richter Award, given to the top NCAA Division I men's ice
hockey goaltender of the year.
At the conclusion of the
2019–20 season, Swayman announced that he would be leaving Maine to begin his
professional hockey career with the Bruins. He finished his college career as
Maine's all-time leader with 3,130 saves and 5,906:45 minutes played, while his
2.51 GAA was fifth in franchise history and his .927 SV% was behind
only Jimmy Howard.
Swayman officially signed a
three-year, entry-level contract with the Bruins on March 18, 2020.
As a result, Swayman's professional hockey career began in
the 2020–21 season, when he was assigned to the Providence
Bruins, Boston's AHL affiliate. He won his first seven games of the season, posting
a 1.57 GAA and .942 SV% in those games. In nine games for Providence, Swayman
went 8–1–0 with a .933 SV% and 1.89 GAA, and he was named to the AHL Atlantic
Division All-Star Team at the end of the season.
He made 40 saves as the
Bruins won 4–2 against the Philadelphia Flyers. His first NHL shutout came
on April 16, when he stopped all 25 shots he faced in the Bruins' 3–0 win over
the New York Islanders. Swayman played in 10 games for the last six
weeks of the Bruins' regular season, during which he went 7–3–0 with a .945 SV%
and a 1.50 GAA. His regular-season performance prompted coach Bruce
Cassidy to select Swayman over Halák as Rask's backup
goaltender in the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. He made his
postseason debut in Game 5 of the Bruins' second-round playoff series against
the Islanders, relieving Rask for the third period. Swayman faced three shots,
stopping two and allowing a Brock Nelson goal in a game that the
Bruins lost 5–4. Cassidy opted not to play Swayman in Game 6, and the Bruins
were eliminated from the playoffs with their 6–2 loss to the Islanders.
While Halák left the Bruins
to join the Vancouver Canucks during the 2021 offseason, Rask
underwent surgery to repair a torn hip labrum and was expected to
miss the first half of the 2021–22 season. Without their two veteran
goaltenders, the Bruins turned to Swayman and newcomer Linus Ullmark.
Through his first eight games of the season, Swayman was 5–3–0 with a .908 SV%
and a 2.39 GAA, his numbers partially deflated by allowing five goals against
the Flyers on October 20. Rask returned to the Bruins on January 11, and
Swayman, who was 8–6–2 with a .918 SV% and 2.26 GAA, was sent down to
Providence to make room for the other goaltender. Rask soon suffered a setback
in his recovery, and Swayman was promoted back to Boston at the end of January,
a promotion that became permanent when Rask announced his retirement in
February. After going 5–1–1 with a .960 SV%, a 1.13 GAA, and two shutouts
in seven starts that month, Swayman was named the NHL Rookie of the Month for
February 2022. Swayman finished the regular season with a 23–14–3 record in 40
games and led all rookie NHL goaltenders with a 2.37 GAA, .913 SV%, and three
shutouts. The New England Sports Network and the Bruins awarded
Swayman the 2022 Seventh Player Award, given annually to the player who
"performs above and beyond expectations". The Bruins faced
the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of the 2022 Stanley
Cup playoffs, with Swayman making his first postseason start in Game 3. He made
25 saves on 27 shots as Boston took the 4–2 victory. Swayman finished the
seven-game series with a 2.63 GAA and .911 SV% in five appearances, but the
Hurricanes eliminated the Bruins 3–2 in the winner-take-all match. Swayman
finished in fifth place for the 2022 Calder Memorial Trophy and was
also named to the NHL All-Rookie Team as goaltender.
The 2022–23
season was a historic one for the Bruins, and for Swayman, who formed the
best goaltending tandem in the league with Ullmark. Swayman and Ullmark's
post-victory "goalie hug" became a widely-covered team ritual. The
Bruins finished the regular season with new records in both wins (65) and
points (135), winning the Presidents' Trophy. Ullmark and Swayman together
received the William M. Jennings Trophy as the goaltending tandem to
allow the fewest goals. Their 177 goals-against across 82 games was 36 fewer
than the second-place Hurricanes. The Bruins entered the 2023 Stanley Cup
playoffs as the favorites for the championship. However, they were ousted
in the first round by the Florida Panthers, squandering a 3–1 series
lead in the process. The series was dubbed "one of the
worst choke jobs in Boston sports history." Much
recrimination ensued about coach Jim Montgomery's roster decisions, in
particular the choice to depart from the team's regular season goalie rotation
in favor of playing Ullmark exclusively, despite him dealing with an injury.
Swayman ultimately was given the start in Game 7, but the Bruins were defeated
4–3 in overtime.
On August 1, 2023, the Bruins
and Swayman agreed to a one-year, $3.475 million contract
in arbitration. After the hearing, Swayman expressed his discontent
with the process, saying it was something he "never wants to do
again", but he maintained that he had no feelings of ill-will towards the
Bruins organization.
With Ullmark coming off
a Vezina Trophy–winning season, Swayman entered the 2023–24
season as Boston's "1B" goaltender. In the first month of the
season, Swayman posted a 6–0–0 record with a .952 SV%. Swayman's first regulation
loss came on November 23, at which point he had gone 7–0–2, with a 2.09 GAA and
a .933 SV%. Swayman continued his impressive play, and on January 13, 2024, he
was named to his first career All-Star Game. At the All-Star Game,
Swayman was picked by Team MacKinnon. He played 10 minutes in a 4–3 shootout
loss to Team McDavid in the semi-final. With the performance, Swayman became
the second Alaskan-born player to play in the All-Star Game, after Scott
Gomez.
After the All-Star Game,
Swayman and the Bruins fell into a short slump, as the team only won three of
their next eleven games, and Swayman went 2–5 during the stretch. With the help
of Swayman, the Bruins finished second in the Atlantic Division, setting
up a first-round match with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2024
Stanley Cup playoffs. Swayman finished the regular season with a 25–10–8
record, a 2.53 GAA, and a .916 SV%. For the first time in his career, Swayman played
in Game 1 of the playoffs, which the Bruins won 5–1, with Swayman making 35 saves
on 36 shots. Attempting to learn from the previous year's collapse, the Bruins
decided to start Ullmark the following game, where they lost 3–2 in overtime.
After Game 2, Swayman started the rest of the series, which he dominated.
Although the series went seven games, much of it was to blame on the lack of
Boston offense, and Swayman was credited for bailing out his teammates. Swayman
posted an outstanding .950 SV% and a 1.49 GAA in the series, including stopping 30 shots in a
2–1 overtime win in the decisive Game 7.
Swayman's play in the first
round led Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery to start Swayman entering
a second round rematch against the Florida Panthers. After a decisive 5–1
victory in Game 1, Swayman was pulled after letting up four goals in Game 2's
6–1 loss. In Game 4, Panthers player Sam Bennett scored a goal on
Swayman, with several observers calling for goalie
interference against the Panthers. Swayman made 28 stops in a 2–1 victory
in Game 5, with the Bruins losing to the eventual Stanley Cup-champion Panthers
in six games.
Swayman entered the offseason
as a restricted free agent, and was due for a major pay raise due to his
outstanding season. However, the contract negotiations did not go smoothly.
Negotiations went well into the summer, over what many saw a disagreement over
the money. Tensions between the camps seemed to reach a all-time high when on
September 1, 2024, with training camp started and still no contract, Bruins
president Cam Neely said in a press conference that he could thing of
"64 million reasons for [Swayman] to be playing now", seemingly an
indication that the Bruins had offered a $64 million dollar contract to
Swayman. This was disputed by Swayman's agent, Lewis Gross, who claimed that
the number was never discussed, and that he and Swayman were
"disappointed" by the comments, and that he and Swayman would
"take a few days to discuss where we go from here." The Bruins
would continue through the preseason without Swayman on the roster. On October
6, two days before the Bruins season opener against the Florida Panthers,
he signed an 8 year, $66 million dollar contract.
Entering the season, for the
first time in his career, Swayman was seen as the clear starting goaltender for
the Bruins, as for most of his career, he platooned with Linus Ullmark.
However, due to the late signing of his contract, Swayman did not start their
opening game of the 2024–25 season for the Bruins, as he had missed
training camp as a result of this. He made his season debut in the second game
of the season, a 6–4 win against the Montreal Canadiens. However, Swayman
struggled to begin the season, and many saw this as a result of him missing
training camp, as well as him taking on a larger role as the true starting
goaltender. These struggles eventually led him to be called out by then-head
coach Jim Montgomery, and even became the subject of multiple rumors
surrounding his standing in the Bruins locker room, which claimed his contract
holdout had rubbed teammates the wrong way.
In December, things seemed to
be turning around for Swayman and the Bruins, as Swayman won seven of his nine
starts. However, soon after, things got rough for Swayman and the Bruins again,
and by mid-March, it seemed like the season was lost. On March 23, 2025,
Swayman gained attention when he challenged Los Angeles
Kings netminder Darcy Kuemper to a fight at center ice during a
game. Kuemper seemed to accept the invitation, and gloves were dropped.
However, the referees stepped between the two before they could exchange punches,
disappointing many fans. It would've been the first goalie fight since
2020. However, controversy still lingered after postgame comments by
Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov seemingly seemed to take a shot at
Swayman's decision to try and drop the gloves. The comments once again fueled
rumors that Swayman had issues in the Bruins locker room. However, Zadarov
cleared the air, claiming he was frustrated after a 7–2 loss and didn't mean
anything as an insult toward Swayman.
Swayman and the Bruins would
continue to struggle throughout the end of the season, and eventually, they
would be eliminated from postseason contention, marking the first time in
Swayman's career he had missed the playoffs. Swayman would start a career-high
58 games during the season, compiling a 22–29–7 record, and recording a
career-worst 3.29 GAA and .892 SV%.
Swayman made his
international ice hockey debut when he was selected to represent
the United States junior team at the 2018 World Junior Ice
Hockey Championships in Buffalo, New York. As the third
goaltender behind Jake Oettinger and Joseph Woll, Swayman
received limited playing time in the tournament outside of an exhibition game
against Sweden and the bronze-medal match against the Czech
Republic. Swayman played in the final 3 minutes and 19 seconds of the
third-place game, allowing no goals as Team USA defeated the Czech Republic 9–3
to take the bronze medal.
Following an injury
to Alex Nedeljkovic of the Detroit Red Wings, Swayman joined
the United States national team for the 2022 IIHF World
Championship in Finland. He recorded a shutout in his first World
Championship appearance, stopping all 17 shots he faced in a 3–0 win
over Great Britain. The United States team finished in fourth place,
losing the bronze-medal match 8–4 to Czechia. Swayman allowed seven goals
in the game but finished the tournament with a .909 SV%, 2.23 GAA, and two
shutouts.
With the Bruins missing the
playoffs, Swayman was once again named to the U.S. national team for
the 2025 IIHF World Championship, his second appearance with the team.
During the 2021–22 NHL
season, Swayman and fellow Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark went
viral for the hugs they gave each other after games. The ritual began
after the Bruins won their home opener, after which Swayman said, "I don't
think it's leaving, it was perfect".
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