When he sat down Tuesday for his succession of season-ending exit interviews with general manager Ron Hextall, coach Dave Hakstol, and goaltending coach Kim Dillabaugh, Steve Mason made it clear that he had no interest in having the Flyers string him along into the summer.
Mason will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, and in his telling, Hextall left the door open for him to return. All Mason asked was that the Flyers inform him of their plans as soon as possible. Would they re-sign him? Would they let him walk away? If Mason's career here was indeed ending, he would need time to sell his house, to find a new home for his family, but he has to wait for that closure.