Mason stopped 31 of 34 shots to come away with a 4-3 overtime victory in Minnesota on Thursday.

EDGE Analysis

Mason's first start in more than a week proved far more fruitful than the three preceding it, as he'd failed to clear a .900 save mark in any of those games. He also overcame Zach Parise's game-tying goal in the latter half of the third period -- the kind of tally that's spelled disaster for the Flyers more than once this year. Michael Neuvirth's played so well this year that this situation has been trending in the direction of a 50-50 timeshare, so Mason will need to put up more starts like this one pretty much every time out to keep whatever grip remains on his starting role.