Kochetkov is a starter? He's a backup

Clearly you haven’t seen him play throughout this year. He was, at times, Carolina’s best goalie and is only in the AHL because he isn’t waiver eligible while Raanta is. He’s a young goalie who is likely to get better next year with a full workload and just got a 4 year extension to be the Canes next young goalie. Why would they then go out and allocate 3 mil+ for some veteran who’d be a backup?

just like Matt Murray was at times Toronto's best goalie. Why would they sign some veteran. They can just pay for Swayman and he and Kochetkov can share the crease

And why would Boston deal Swayman? Ullmark isn’t going to be there forever and who knows if he can replicate this season. Kochetkov is also a young goalie with limited experience, whereas Murray is an older goalie with no glove hand and an extensive injury history, they aren’t comparable. Kochetkov has already had a strong playoff appearance against a good team, and played well this year. Ask any Carolina fan and they’ll agree, there’s no reason to go out and spend 3+ mil on another goalie.

they only have 1 goalie for next year. They gotta spend man

Raanta and Anderson are old and probably might get resigned

if they need a goalie, they could just sign Korprisalo

Raanta, maybe. But again, there isn't a huge need for either with Kochetkov's emergence. and since backups like Comrie and Lindgren didn't even get close to 2 mil on their contracts, there is no reason Carolina can't simply spend 1.5ish on a backup and go from there. Then, they would have zero issue spending in other areas, such as the proposed Kuznetsov trade above.

Lol right? They have 35m in cap space. That’s an insane amount. It was terrible takes mixed with embarrassing math skills

Edmonton would be cap-in, cap-out. Meaning they would have to move a $3M salary in order to take on a $3M salary. I don't see it happening, myself, but it's not impossible.