On June 24, 2024, Don Sweeney diminished Jim Montgomery’s greatest position of strength. For two seasons, Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman made Montgomery’s job easy by cleaning up their teammates’ mistakes. And another thing Montgomery didn’t foresee: three months after Lindholm and Zadorov put pen to paper, Swayman had yet to do the same. As soon as Swayman signed his deal …
