Jeremy Swayman fought in the Stadium Series, then somehow turned it into a Boston Bruins penalty-minutes milestone that doesn’t even sound real.
The Bruins blew a 5-1 lead and lost 6-5 in a shootout to the Tampa Bay Lightning, but Swayman still left the night with a piece of franchise trivia.
In the second period, Swayman dropped the gloves with Andrei Vasilevskiy at center ice, a rare goalie fight on an outdoor stage.
It was chaos, and it matched the vibe of a game that kept spinning further off the rails.
For Swayman, that fighting major didn’t just fire up the crowd, but it moved him up the Bruins’ all-time goalie penalty minute leaderboard.
Ty Anderson noted the fight gave Swayman sole possession of 16th place among Bruins goaltenders, at 17 penalty minutes.
That alone is funny, because most goalies spend their careers trying to stay invisible to referees.
Then Swayman did it again. Not long after the major, he took a delay-of-game penalty and climbed even higher.
Anderson said the extra two minutes bumped Swayman into 14th place all-time among Bruins goalies for penalty minutes.
Jeremy Swayman climbing the ranks for Bruins goaltenders penalties
Swayman is built to compete, and when a game turns nasty, he doesn’t just watch it happen from the crease.
The problem is timing. Boston spent the night killing penalties, chasing momentum, and trying to survive a Lightning comeback that never stopped coming.
So the Swayman stat lands as both hilarious and frustrating, because the Bruins needed calm more than they needed a statement.
At the end of the day Swayman finally got his first fight under his belt after he has tried countless other times to do.
Did Jeremy Swayman’s fight make the Stadium Series even more memorable despite the loss?
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