Bruins sign Billy Sweezey to one-year contract extension

An undrafted player, Sweezey played for the Dubuque Fighting Saints and Chicago Steel in the USHL before beginning his NCAA career at Yale University in 2016. The 6’1″ right-shot defender spent four years with the Bulldogs, collecting three goals and 29 points in 127 games.

Sweezey turned pro with the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the 2020-21 season. The following year, he moved to the Cleveland Monsters, the top-level affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets; near the end of the 2021-22 campaign, in which he collected 11 points in 70 games with the Monsters, Sweezey signed his first NHL contract with Columbus.

In 2022-23, Sweezey appeared in his first (and, so far, only) nine NHL games with the Blue Jackets, recording one assist and averaging 17:07 of ice time. He spent the remainder of that season and all of the following one in Cleveland before signing with the Boston organization as a UFA.

In 338 career AHL games over parts of six seasons with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Cleveland, and Providence, Sweezey has collected seven goals, 57 points, and 434 penalty minutes. He’s added a goal and an assist in 12 playoff contests, all with Cleveland in 2024; he’ll add to those totals as a member of the top-seeded AHL Bruins in this year’s Calder Cup Playoffs.