The Olympics are in full swing and ice hockey is starting to take flight. With the NHL on hiatus until February 25th, PrimePucks™ would like to treat the non-PRIME+PLUS subscribers to some past articles during the period.  Today we will feature a ROMIE HITS THE POST article from November 21, 2013.  Enjoy below! ROMIE HITS THE POST: STEVE MASON IS COMING ON by Michael - November 21, 2013 When the Philadelphia Flyers bought out Ilya Bryzgalov's contract this past summer and signed Ray Emery to a one year deal, a lot of people might have thought that Emery would be the starting goaltender for the Flyers this year. After all he was 17-1 last year with Chicago with a 1.94 goals against and a .922 save percentage.  But Philadelphia had also traded Michael Leighton to Columbus last spring for Steve Mason.  Mason had been the starter in Columbus for four years, although he really only had one successful season in 2008-2009 with a 33-20-7 year with a 2.29 goals against and a .916 save percentage and a whopping 10 shutouts.  Mason then had 3 difficult years with a very mediocre Columbus team, and with the advent of Sergei Bobrovsky he was deemed expendable.  Now the Flyers started this year miserably losing 6 of their first 7 games.  This resulted in the firing of Peter Laviolette as Coach and his replacement by Craig Berube.  Since the coaching change the Flyers have been playing much better, and they have won 4 of their last 5 games, losing only in a shootout to Winnipeg.  The main beneficiary of this resurgence by Philadelphia is their clear starting goalie Steve Mason.  Mason is only 25 years old, but he has 5 years of experience in the NHL.  He has good size as well at 6'4" and 223 lbs, but he moves quickly and is very athletic.  Mason is 6-7-2 so far on the season, but his metrics are very good with a 2.12 goals against average and a .932 save percentage. He has allowed 3 or less goals in 21 consecutive games, leading the NHL.  He has won 3 of his last 4 games, and we think he will be a bit of a fantasy surprise the rest of the year.  At 25 years old he has a great combination of experience and youth.  His glove hand is considered his main weakness, but he has been working hard on this issue and he has gotten better.  We expect him to have a good rest of the year.  Get him if you can. Stick Saves: We think that poolies tend to underestimate Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen.  That's because he has had a history of getting injured, and he had sort of 4 mediocre years with the Atlanta Thrashers.  But he has stayed healthy with the Dallas Stars, and he is stepping up to be a top notch NHL goaltender.  The 30 years old Finn is 10-3-2 this season with a 2.01 goals against and a .934 save percentage.  At 6'4" and 217 lbs he has good size like Mason.  Lehtonen went 15-14-3 last year with a 2.66 goals against and a .916 save percentage.  Dallas is playing better than people probably expected this year, and Lehtonen is benefitting from that.  He is a solid late first tier goalie.