Chris Mason (ice hockey)

Christopher Mason ( born April 20, 1976 in Red Deer, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who stands since August 2013 in Ritten Sport in the Italian Elite.A under contract.

Career

He began his career Chris Mason in 1993 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League with the Victoria Cougars, where he was deployed three times in his first season. The team moved to Prince George in 1994 and changed its name to Prince George Cougars. Mason followed the team and sat down by the goalkeeper, which meant that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 by the New Jersey Devils in the fifth round at position 122. Mason stayed two years in the WHL until he had reached the upper age limit of 21 years.

The Devils had not signed him, but he was end of June 1997 a contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. But in the National Hockey League he did not play. Instead, he played in the American Hockey League for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, the farm team of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Shortly before the start of the 1998/99 season Mason and defender Marc Moro were transferred for Dominic Roussel to Anaheim Nashville Predators newly established. The majority of the season he spent at the farm team Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League. For Nashville, he made his debut in the NHL, but he never played from the beginning, but was allowed to score when the team was behind hopeless. His first game he completed against Anaheim when he played the final third with the score at 1-6, against the Philadelphia Flyers, he was allowed half of the game on the ice, as it was 0-5, just like in the game against the Boston Bruins as he received 18 minutes of ice.

The following year he played exclusively in the IHL. In the 2000 /01 season he played for the first time for the Predators from the start, lost the game and conceded two goals. It remained his only use in the NHL this season, otherwise he continued playing for Milwaukee, as well as the following year, as the Milwaukee Admirals competed for the first time in the American Hockey League. In the summer of 2002 Masons contract ran out in Nashville and he was acquired from the Florida Panthers in the farm team, the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL, put him.

His contract was renewed in summer 2003 again, but he was released shortly afterwards by the team. The Nashville Predators took him again under contract, where Mason immediately played a larger role, as he became the new back-up goalie Tomáš Vokoun of. Mason played 17 games and won with a Gegentorschnitt of 2.18 and a catch rate of 92.6 percent.

The NHL season 2004/ 05 dropped out because of the lockout and Mason signed a contract with Vålerenga Ishockey in the Norwegian Hockey League. With the team he won the first place in the regular season and also won the playoffs. Mason was voted the best goalkeeper in the league.

In the season 2005/ 06 Mason benefited from an injury to goalkeeper Vokoun at the end of the season. Mason was thus more ice age and completed a total of 23 games, of which he won twelve and lost five. Because of the violation of Vokoun Mason was also number 1 in the playoffs, but failed there to the San Jose Sharks in the first round.

After his injury Vokoun Mason of the role of back-up goalies had taken in the 2006/07 season again. After the Predators Vokoun had transferred to Florida, Mason should take the place of Vokoun in the 2007/ 08 season, but he could not stand up to his goalkeeper Dan Ellis and therefore took in February 2008 again the position of the back-up goalies a. After managing the Predators reached agreement with Ellis on a new contract, they transferred Mason on the day of the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 for a fourth- round election to St. Louis Blues.

In 2007 he won with Team Canada the Hockey World Cup, but he did not play. Two years later, Mason was second behind goalie Dwayne Roloson and came in the tournament to four inserts. With a catch rate of about 96.5 percent and a Gegentorschnitt of a goal per game, he was statistically the best goalkeeper of the World Cup and won the silver medal with Canada.

In July 2010, he left the Blues and was obliged as a free agent by the Atlanta Thrashers. The Canadians ran in the sequence for both the Thrashers and after their relocation to the 2011/12 season for the Winnipeg Jets on a regular basis. Beginning of July 2012 Mason returned back into the organization of the Nashville Predators.

In the summer of 2013 he changed to the Italian Elite.A, where he signed with Ritten Sport.

Awards and achievements

2005 Norwegian Champion with Vålerenga Ishockey
2007 Gold medal at the World Cup ( without insert)
2009 Silver medal at the World Championships

Career Stats

Regular Season

Playoffs

( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Special

On October 15, 2001, Mason enlisted as a scorer in the AHL game against the Utah Grizzlies. In reality it was an own goal of an opponent, but since Mason was the last player from Milwaukee, who had touched the puck, he was arrested on the scoresheet as a scorer. On April 15, 2006, a goal was added in the NHL. Again hit an opponent into his own goal and Mason was named as scorer.
On 13 November 2005, Mason injured while warming up for an NHL game. Substitute goalkeeper Brian Finley stood in for him and defender Jamie Allison had in goalkeeper equipment as a substitute take a seat on the bench.

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