[Caged Great]

The thing is that there's more middle tier goalies now than before.

There's been 5-10 really awesome goalies at any given time, pretty much from the Roy era forward (Belfour, Cujo Brodeur, Roy etc). The difference is that even the bottom tier goalies are decent. There aren't too many Rick Tabbaracci calibre starters in the league any more. Just really bottom of the barrel guys.

Because of that, a lot of goalies are interchangeable. See Bryzgalov and Scrivens in Edmonton. Each had good stats when in LA/Min, but became garbage when in EDM. Similarly, even Chad Johnson is doing awesome in Boston. I think even Dubnyk would look like a decent goalie if he was in Boston.

If you don't have one of the elite, it's all varying degrees of meh.