He's a backup most teams would want. People on this forum are overreacting with the resigning of Emery. It's quite pathetic, and makes me question most of the forum-er's understanding of the game.
Emery played well as a backup in the playoffs, anyone who doesn't think that doesn't know hockey.
Every goaltender has weaknesses. It's up to the 5 guys in front of the goaltender, the guys on the bench, and the coaches behind the bench to not let the goaltender's weaknesses become exploited, or for the goaltender's weaknesses to be exploited to a minimal amount. Our defense sucked royally vs the Rangers, and Emery was forced to go lateral and we didn't protect him one bit. Let's put our sticks back down on the ice to help eliminate the cross-ice passes in front of the crease, for starters.
Before you guys get your panties in a twist over Hextall signing Emery to a one year deal, let's talk about plugging up some of the other holes ON the ice, first. Such as, becoming a more disciplined team and taking less penalties (goodbye Hartnell!), not taking offensive penalties, moving the puck out of the D-zone, maintaining neutral zone possession or interrupting the flow, bolster our blue line defensively, don't let opponents skate through the neutral zone and past our blue line without even pressuring them (seriously, does any other team aside from the Flyers allow the opposing teams to skate willingly into our their own zone?), etc etc etc etc.
Those are issues that are going to negatively effect any goaltender, and let's face it, those particular issues I outlined are big problems the Flyers have had for several years now.
Mason/Emery is a solid combination. I am thankful to be seeing Emery in Orange and Black once again; and as someone else previously mentioned in this thread, he IS a good mentor for Mason.