I am in the front of the line when it comes to firing Berube but Mason seems flat out wrong on more then one level if Seravelli's story is accurate.
it's Mason's responsibility to make sure his coach knows he may not be able to go. People saying they don't blame him for getting even with Berube, that's ********. You play for your teammates. You don't pull that shot on the other guys in the locker room.
The leadership on the team (Giroux, Simmonds, Streit) need to sit down with Mason and find out what really happened. If what Seravalli said and others are insinuating is true then they need to tell him to grow the eff up and be a professional. This is a team game.
I am sure there are guys playing through injuries even though the season is done for at this point. So, he needs to decide if he is part of the team or if he is going to sit and pout.
I hope Beube gets fired. I would love for the Flyers to lose out and get a better draft pick but let's not act like what Mason did was OK.
That's why I used words like "insinuates" and said the leadership needs to find out what happened. At the end of the day it seems obvious Berube has lost Mason but it is still the players responsibility to tell his coach he may not be able to go.
Not saying that Mason did get 'revenge' on Berube... however that is not beyond a possibility... but if it were to be the case, my guess is that the players would be aware and at this point of a lost Season where they pretty much are playing for their jobs and reputation, with the understanding that brother players have to be supported where and when they can... at this point of the Season where a win means little to nothing, and that would be the to prove a point... a 'point' that the other players may both agree and benefit from.
To play the Devils advocate here... If Mason believed that he was insulted and thrown under a bus by the current coach, and his teammates also see that... and that Mason was screwed in Toronto and his coach and friend lost a job over it while his wishes and possible health/career was not tended to correctly... who's to say that rather than take it out on an Organization that gave him his second chance and helped revive his career, he wouldn't just screw the coach who he believes to be on the way out the door in a couple weeks?
I'm not saying that that was the case... just that it is ONE of the possibilities... and every bit as plausible as the possibility that Seravalli alluded to by what he perceived as Berube snubbing Mason... which he viewed at a distance and assumingly without hearing what transpired -- that was how I read it -- The point I was making and still believe is that the whole thinks smells and that the people who are suggesting that it is not a one sided feud where Berube was just pissed at Mason for yesterday may not be 100% off base.
Morganti calling Mason High Maintenance may not have come out of thin air or that fact that all Goalies are nut jobs in one way or another and are high maintenance as a nature of that... Maybe there is a battle between Mason and Berube that the Organization has requested of them to keep under their hats... so the infighting is subtle and sneaky rather than an all out verbal and assertive assault... on BOTH sides... Beube on the quick pull and disguised bus throwing, and Mason on his feeling ill in a manner which he does not describe -- stating that he is not a doctor -- Clearly there is something there... and picking who is at fault is a fruitless choir at this point.
I agree that everything at this point is baseless... but it still reeks to high Heaven... And I have learned to take the Media with a grain of salt... and to not believe what the Organization or the players say either.
