There is a rumor going around that the back injury came from Giroux biting Mason in the spine.
If you spent even 3 seconds looking at the table, you would see that Emery is not even close to Mason/Bryzgalov. It's a table with 6 cells that I went to the trouble of formatting for ease of legibility and you literally could not spend 3 seconds to read it before blurting out your sarcastic opinion.
There is a competition between Mason and Emery to see who can flip the most heads. They are both given a freshly minted quarter and flip their coin 10 times.
Mason gets 4 heads. Emery gets 7.
Do you think Emery is better at flipping coins? Do you think there was a malfunction at the mint and he got a weighted coin? Is Mason just having a bad coin-flipping day? There is no such thing as a consistent goaltender. It's the in nature of the game that save percentages over a handful of games will vary wildly. Emery has only played a handful of games.
Emery is probably not as good a goaltender as Mason, but I don't think just posting save percentages is useful here. Maybe the Flyers have happened to take more penalties when Emery is in net? Maybe some of those penalties resulted in 5v3s? Maybe defensemen have broken their stick 6 times while Emery is playing and only 2 times while Mason was tending?
There's a million things that could have happened or not happened to cause a disparity in save percentage like that; it's entirely possible for a difference in save percentage that large even in equally talented netminders.
Emery's save percentage was better in Philadelphia than Chicago.
I sure did look at it. In what world is a difference of 6 one thousandths "not even close"? By that logic, your stats say bryz is marginally better than Mason, which is rediculously wrong. Regardless, my point still stands. You cannot bring up stats from almost 4 years ago to say how good a player is today.
I'm not saying Emery is in the same class as Mason. I not only didn't say that, I specifically provided numeric evidence that indicates Emery is probably not as good as Mason. I won't touch the "I can tell who is a better goalie by my eyes", even though the difference between a Vezina nominee and league average goaltending is usually about 12-15 goals over the course of a season..