That drives me nuts. I know plenty of people that shoot harder than me and I've dented my friend's Sportmask's cage almost an inch from a wrist shot...and people are wearing Itech/Bauer 2500s. The problem with player versus goalie masks is that it's much harder to get valid info on a players' helmet...and what's to say that one helmet is not better in one area but worse in another area? With goalie masks it's pretty easy to tell how good your mask is when someone rings a good one off of it.
What Mack said, we're talking about patterns that are lacking in terms of retail success. Trying to steer the topic back moreso to Easton's Iginla, I think that blade would be more popular if the blade was larger...it's really a tiny blade.
I like how they feel for puck handling. Some claim they "shoot better", whatever I can shoot just as well with almost any pattern if given some time with it. I'm just glad I scooped up all my Kovalchuk variations before they got popular and the price started to skyrocket. I hate the Ovie pattern's semi-popularity because one guy on a team always has one and he shoots exclusively at my eye level.