BOSTON – One year ago, so much was in question in Jeremy Swayman ’s world. He was facing down the prospect of missing some, if not all, of training camp, with his contract situation unsettled and his position with the Boston Bruins uncertain.

It would ultimately take until just two days before the season opener for Swayman and the team to agree on a new deal, one worth $66 million over eight years, a process that was rife with turmoil that spilled out into the public.

So it made sense that a question about the upcoming training camp wasn’t even finished before Swayman jumped in, chuckling: “So excited,” he said.

“It’s an extremely important time of the year,” he said on Thursday at Warrior Ice Arena. “If I didn’t have that experience, I probably wouldn’t understand the importance of

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