I think your opinion is skewed, you have had an anti-Hunwick, anti-Harrington view since pre-season. "Rielly, as a result of being his partner, is looking bad too, but he's been doing fine." Come on.
In all honesty, I wouldn't be pinning the fault on the D here. Most of the problems have been the other team being allowed to shoot from the high slot. Their defence have been allowed to walk in or wingers left to shoot uncontested from here. Another was a breakaway from a player returning from the box following his penalty. The "front of the net" mistakes I only see as 2 goals being attributed to traffic in front, plus one redirection. Maybe we're collapsing too quickly, only 1 goal was from a man in the middle of the box.
The PK can only limit so much, if a man wants to plant himself on the crease & hold his ground, in the new rules NHL you can't do much about it. I don't care if you have Polak, Hunwick or Chara, if the forward wants to stay there, you can't legally move him. So you try to limit things, make them shoot from weaker positions, outside the box. Then you want your goalie to make the stop & control the rebound (Price is a star at this). Our goalies have not been doing this, the only legit excuse I'll give them is that I think our box has collapsed too early, or we are not being aggressive enough on the shooter.
There have been other mistakes, but in reality there hasn't been enough PK & goals to make a real judgement on who or what is at fault. Various individuals with various errors have been made. Of the 9 PK goals I could probably give you as a reason for the goal, 7 different errors from 8 or 9 different individuals.
You know, maybe our biggest downfall with the PK so far is just bad luck.
