Bruins’ Jeremy Swayman eager to regain his form

A year ago at this time, Jeremy Swayman was nothing but a ghost around the Bruins’ practice facility in Brighton as the netminder started to dig in his heels for what would be the most contentious contract negotiation of the Don Sweeney era.

As ghosts tend to do, Swayman’s absence haunted the B’s training camp and, even though Swayman signed his eight-year, $66 million before the start of the season, the impasse adversely affected both Swayman’s play and the team’s. It’s not the only reason for the B’s dive to the bottom of the Atlantic Division, but it’s fair to say it was the first domino.

But at Thursday’s captain’s practice at Warrior Ice Arena, the positive vibe-spouting Jeremy Swayman – sounding like equal parts goaltender and self-help guru – was in attendance and eager to get tra