"Mine was brutal," Mason laughed. "I just got credit for it. I was the last person to touch it, so I don't even really count that I actually got one. And then I got another the same way in the American League in Milwaukee. I didn't touch it, I just was the last person that touched it, so I got lucky like that."
There was a bit of luck involved in Rinne's tally too, but it sure does take a ton of skill, poise and wherewithal to try and pull it off in a game.
It wasn't the first time the big Finn has tried to score either. Rinne shoots pucks into empty nets in practice all the time, and he's had many conversations expressing his desire and dream to do it one day.
Well, dream no more, Peks.
"He's been open about wanting to score, he's thought about it and he's very honest with those types of things and those accomplishments," Mason said of Rinne. "To see it was just, it was just a perfect shot. And when he handled the puck at first, I'm like, 'He's going for it.' The way he lined it up, he had the time and he just launched a perfect shot over everybody. When it went in, it was just crazy."
The excitement is infectious between Mason and his broadcast partner, Willy Daunic, on the FS-TN broadcast, and the jubilation is equally satisfying between Voice of the Preds Pete Weber and Hal Gill on 102.5 The Game and the Predators Radio Network.