I think it's primarily the fact that there never used to be great goalies in the VHLM. I mean my S21 cup was with an 86 TPE inactive, and I won it BECAUSE of him, not IN SPITE of him. The rest of the league had guys in the 50s at best, even spread out among 8 rosters. I remember the excitement at the S23 VHLM draft when we had VanCoughnett, Vasquez, and Glover, because it was absolutely unheard of for there to be three active 100+ TPE goalies in the M at the same time. You get someone on your level trying to score against Iseult, Aamo, Sterling, Asipi, it'll go a lot differently than trying to score against guys who never get past maybe 60 TPE.