Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Everyone agrees the goaltending hasn't been the reason ... don't we?
That's probably a tricky question to answer. Last season Reimer had a .920 Sv% while killing penalties. That's very, very good. That's first in the league among goalies who played 30+ games last season. This season Bernier is at .886 and Reimer is .840. Bernier is probably about average there while Reimer's number is near the bottom of the league among starters.
With that said, from watching the PK I'm not so sure the goalies deserve a large amount of blame. It's been said before, there's a lot more glaring issues on the PK this season than goaltending. But I do think that enough wasn't said about Reimer's performance on the PK last season. McClement got all the attention, but Reimer was probably the real MVP of the PK unit.
That elite level goaltending hasn't been there on the PK this season, other problems have arisen, and the teams performance shorthanded has dropped considerably.