Barry Trotz has said that mason is their guy, and that dan ellis has a long ways to go to prove he's a number 1 goaltender. Despite mason's "shortcomings" he's their guy and will have as many lives to prove it as lehtonen had last year, based on the fact that they signed him up for a few years and would look stupid if they give up on him right away. Personally i think dan ellis is the better goaltender, so keep a close eye on it, but don't be surprised to see mason getting the workload for this season's failure. They won't even make the playoffs.