BOSTON – Former University of Maine men's hockey goaltender Jeremy Swayman has been selected for the 2024 NHL All-Star Game, as announced on Saturday by the National Hockey League. This is the first career All-Star nod for Swayman. Additionally, Jim Montgomery '93 has been named the Atlantic Division head coach for the All-Star Game for the second consecutive season.
 
Swayman, who spent three seasons as a Black Bear from 2017-2020, was one of 12 players selected for the game via the 2024 NHL All-Star Fan Vote.
 
The Anchorage, Alaska native has appeared in 22 games this season, going 11-3-7 with a 2.47 goals against average and a .920 save percentage while posting two shutouts. In 110 career NHL games with Boston, Swayman is 65-26-14 with a 2.29 goals against average and a .920 save percentage.

Under the All-Star selection process, the head coach of the teams with the highest points percentage in each of the four divisions were selected. Montgomery has led the Bruins to a 25-8-9 record through 42 games this season. Under Montgomery, the Bruins currently sit fourth place in penalty kill (84.3 percent) and also have the league's fifth best power-play (27.1 percent). He is in his second season as head coach of the Bruins. In 2022-23, Montgomery guided the Bruins to the Presidents' Trophy and was named the Jack Adams Award winner as the NHL coach of the year.

In 100 career appearances at Maine, Swayman went 47-40-12 with a .927 save percentage, 2.51 goals against average and four shutouts. As a junior, he was  named the 2020 Mike Richter Award winner, given annually to the best goaltender in men's Division I college hockey. Swayman posted a stellar .939 save percentage and 2.07 goals against average to go with three shutouts that season while also being named an All-American East first-team honoree, Hockey East Player of the Year and Hockey East First Team All-Star. During his time in Orono, Swayman also represented the United States at the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
 
Montgomery was a four-year letter winner in hockey and helped lead Maine to its first NCAA National Championship. Montgomery scored three third period goals to rally the Black Bears from a 4-2 deficit in the 1993 National Championship against Lake Superior State. Montgomery, who ranks fourth in NCAA history in points (301) and assists (198), was named All-Hockey East three times in his career. In addition, he was chosen to the league's All-Decade Team for the 1990's and a finalist for the 1993 Hobey Baker Award. He was twice named Maine's Most Valuable Player and he won the school's Dale Lick Academic Achievement Award. Montgomery, who had single season point totals of 60, 81, 65 and 95, had his No. 19 jersey retired by the Black Bears.