After abnormal rookie year, "Normal" Sam Ersson is ready to take up the mantle as Flyers' No. 1 goalie

The goaltender position comes with a certain reputation for weirdness.
Everyone around hockey knows the stereotypes surrounding goalies. Strange rituals. Awkwardness. A hair-trigger temper. A general aloofness. All too often on teams, there's all of the skaters -- and then somewhere, on another planet, is The Goalie.
But ask around the Philadelphia Flyers' locker room, and it's quickly apparent that isn't the case with Sam Ersson.
Chill. Even-keeled. Laid-back. Normal. Those are the descriptors most frequently dropped by teammates about Ersson.
“(He's) very normal," Scott Laughton noted regarding his club's newly-minted No. 1 netminder. "It’s (often) different with goalies. (But) he’s one of...