The Boston Bruins signed Jeremy Swayman to an eight-year contract on Sunday that will pay him $66 million, getting their No. 1 goalie back on the ice and ending a contract standoff that approached the start of the regular season.

A restricted free agent, Swayman had missed all of training camp. The sides faced a Dec. 1 deadline for him to sign or sit out the entire season, a potential disaster for a team that last year had two top goalies -- Swayman and 2023 Vezina Trophy winner Linus Ullmark -- rotating in the net until the beginning of the playoffs.

After serving as the No. 2 to Ullmark in Boston's record-setting 2022-23 season, Swayman failed to come to terms on a long-term contract in the summer of 2023 and was awarded a $3.475 million deal in arbitration. He bristled at the process and said: "I don't want to do it ever again."

With his new $8.25 million average annual value, Swayman is tied with Ilya Sorokin for the fourth-highest AAV for a goaltender. He trails only Sergei Bobrovsky ($10M), Andrei Vasilevskiy ($9.5M) and Connor Hellebuyck ($8.5M).