Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Steve Mason left a Friday practice session with an upper-body injury and is expected to miss his club’s back-to-back games in Toronto and Winnipeg this weekend.<\/p>\n
Mason, who made 31 saves in Thursday’s 2-1 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers, appeared to suffer some kind of spasm, which was severe enough that he had to be taken off the ice by team personnel.<\/p>\n
Timing of this injury to the Philly starter could not have been worse, with the Flyers about to embark on an eight-game holiday road trip mired in sixth place in the Metropolitan Division at 11-14-6.<\/p>\n
Mason has gone just 6-10-5 this season, but holds a goals-against average of 2.49 and .921 save percentage.<\/p>\n
Though the club has not made it official, it is expected that Rob Zepp — the starting netminder for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the AHL — will be recalled to back up Ray Emery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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