It's not a simple answer.
Freddie Andersen, Pyotr Kochetkov, and Antti Raanta were last in the league in save percentage and most goalie metrics for the first 30, 35 games of the year for the Hurricanes. In the new year, they've been excellent in goaltending. Did the goaltending get better? Absolutely not. The team separated DeAngelo from Orlov, Orlov learned the system, and the team started playing Rod Brind'Amour gritty backchecking hockey again. The scoring suffered a little bit and the defense improved drastically. We did find out Antti Raanta was cooked, sadly. Hell of a guy.
If you were to swap tandems between Ottawa and Carolina, I don't think either team would have a substantially different result. I do think that Carolina's goalies are better, but I also think Ottawa's goalies have capable talent. Certainly both teams get worse goaltending than, say, the Boston Bruins.
But what really matters is the defensive commitment of the whole team. Until Ottawa as a team commits hard to better systems in the defensive zone and not allowing high danger shots, they'll continue to have "bad goaltending".
I say this purely anecdotally. I don't watch Sens games, and neither do most of us in this thread. I can vouch for whenever the Canes play Ottawa that usually it's way easier to get to the dirty goal-scoring areas and to enter the zone. Compare that to a game against the Rangers or Dallas. In those games the Canes have to fight for every inch of the ice and it's so hard to get any shots from dangerous areas.
