Jeremy Swayman fires back at Cam Neely for lying about contract offer!

Earlier today Boston Bruins executive Cam Neely completely threw goaltender Jeremy Swayman under the bus and insinuated that Swayman turned down a $64 million offer from the team.

Now, Swayman's agent at SPM Sports is refuting Neely's words and is straight up calling Neely a liar.

Check it out:

Read below for our earlier report on this story, published today by Hockey Feed staff writer Jonathan Larrivee.

Things just got very ugly between restricted free agent goaltender Jeremy Swayman and his current team, the Boston Bruins.

Swayman and the Bruins have been deadlocked in a highly publicized contract dispute, one that appears to have no end in sight, and on Monday morning things turned ugly as the Bruins began openly negotiating with Swayman and his representative through the media.

Things took an ominous turn during the Bruins media availability on Monday when general manager Don Sweeney and head coach Jim Montgomery both made comments that indicated that Swayman was unlikely to be the team's starting goaltender on opening night of the regular season. That was bad enough, but things took an even worse turn when it was time for team president Cam Neely to step up to the microphone.

When Neely was asked about the situation surrounding Swayman, he effectively leaked what the Bruins' latest offer to Swayman had been. Neely didn't explicitly state a number of years, but did indicate how much Swayman stood to earn following the Bruins most recent offer.

"I know that I’d have 64 million reasons why I’d be playing right now," said Neely revealing how much the Bruins have offered the goaltender.

While Neely did not go into detail about the offer, you have to believe that what he is referencing here is an 8 year contract that would carry an average annual value and cap hit of $8 million per season. That would work out to the total of $64 million that Neely has mentioned, which to be fair to the Bruins is a substantial offer.

That being said it also clearly hasn't been enough to get Swayman to sign on the dotted line, and Neely provided some insight as to why that might be the case. Swayman has previously made statements indicating that he is trying to set the market, not only for himself, but for goaltenders across the National Hockey League. When Neely was asked if that was indeed still the case, the Bruins president answered in the affirmative.

"I do," said Neely.

This one has definitely turned ugly and there is unfortunately no end in sight.