'YOU EVER WATCH Mike Keenan?" Ron Hextall was asking.
"Mike Keenan had Vezina Trophy winner after Vezina Trophy winner, and he yanked goalies all the time."
That was one of Hextall's responses yesterday when asked whether he was comfortable with how coach Craig Berube managed the Vezina-caliber season Steve Mason cobbled together against the odds.
Mason, 26, set a Flyers franchise record for save percentage (.928) since the stat became official in the NHL in 1981-82. It was good enough for third in the league.
His even-strength save percentage since Nov. 1. (.950) - which removes the factor of the Flyers' putrid penalty kill - was far and away the best in the league, better than Carey Price (.