"I want to set" would mean "I want to be the highest paid goalie.
Setting the market for something refers to the process of establishing a price range or quote for a particular security, commodity, or good.
Setting the market does not have to mean he wants to be the highest paid goalie.
It could also mean setting the market moving forward for RFA goaltenders who never had the starter role for a full season prior to said contract. This could be achieved without being the highest paid goaltender in the league.
You are entitled to your interpretation of what « I want to set » would mean, but what you think is not gospel and there are other very valid interpretations out there.
You disagree with the fact he NEVER SAID he wants to "set" the market even though he quite literally never said that?
Nobody can disagree to that because you are right he didn’t say it.
But you pushed your argument way further by saying he never said anything remotely close to anything related to setting the market.
We believe the talks about not ruining the market for other goalies are fairly close to the concept of setting a market (not remotely close to
your concept of it as expressed previously, but still valid points of debate).