Jeremy Swayman

Jeremy Swayman (born November 24, 1998), nicknamed "Sway", 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. Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, his professional hockey career did not begin until the season. Swayman spent the first part of the season with the Providence Bruins of the AHL but was promoted to the NHL in April after Boston's primary goaltenders were sidelined by injury and illness. 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. Both Rask and Jaroslav Halák left the Bruins after the 2020–21 season, after which Swayman formed a goaltending platoon with Linus Ullmark. Early life Swayman was born on November 24, 1998, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Anne Boesenberg and Ken Swayman. 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 is Jewish on his paternal side, his grandparents Bertram and Florence Swayman (nee Waxman). 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.