And Swayman isn’t sitting out for an entire season.
What exactly is your point here ?
We have seen it in past a goalie sit out an entire year (Almost two years actually) during contract dispute
Khabibulin sat out 1999-2000 season playing in IHL over contract dispute. Dispute continued thru most of next season as well before the Yotes finally traded his rights to Lightning
We also saw Joseph consider it after being traded to Edmonton and Oilers unwilling to give him contract he wanted (And the split with Ranford they wanted that was dumb idea). Eventually the Oilers did smart thing and traded Ranford and signed Joseph but it took half a season to get to that point
Swayman could very well miss entire season at his age 25 (Turns 26 during season) and survive
No reason to expect him to surrender in talks to B's as past has seen either team back down (Oilers) or team ultimately trading away player (Khabibulin)
If he truly feels he is worth it and has leverage he can sit it out