“I’m so grateful to be a part of this city, a part of this team, and it’s moments like that that make everything worth it.”
The last time Jeremy Swayman left the TD Garden ice in May, he questioned whether or not he’d return to Causeway Street in a black-and-gold sweater come October.
With a contentious contract negotiation on the horizon and uncertainty brewing about both his future and that of fellow goalie Linus Ullmark, Swayman pondered his fate during Amazon’s “FACEOFF: Inside the NHL” docuseries.
“I mean, I don’t want it to end,” Swayman said on the show. “[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.
“I never want it to end. I’m just so grateful that the sun’s going to rise tomorrow and there’s another opportunity to get better.”
Swayman’s concerns about the future were finally answered on Sunday by way of an eight-year, $66 million contract extension.
And in his first start as Boston’s No. 1 netminder on Thursday, Swayman admitted that he needed to collect himself as he skated on the ice to a chorus of cheers from the Garden crowd.