SUNRISE, FLORIDA - MAY 08: Jeremy Swayman #1 of the Boston Bruins warms up prior to Game Two of the Second Round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena on May 08, 2024 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)
A painfully condensed window between the 2024 NHL Draft and the start of free agency left the Bruins and the rest of the league scrambling to finalize their decisions ahead of Monday’s free agent frenzy.
And for the Bruins, that came with decisions made on all seven of the Black and Gold’s restricted free agents — a class headlined by goaltender Jeremy Swayman — made by 5 p.m. Sunday. And when it boiled down to it, the decision was a simple one in the sense that a qualifying offer meant that the player was sticking around with the Bruins, while a failure to tender a qualifying offer meant that the player would be free to sign with anybody as an unrestricted free agent beginning at 12 p.m. on July 1.
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