BOSTON – Mats Zuccarello wondered how he was going to live.
Before the Rangers’ Norwegian forward even considered whether his NHL career might be over, he sat in his hospital bed last April with a skull fracture, brain contusion, and brain bleeding, confronting a more jarring potential reality: His life may never be the same.
“Right away it’s kind of (worrying about) almost your life, you know? Like, how’s my life gonna be like this? I can’t talk. I can’t function,” Zuccarello said before Thursday night’s exhibition game in Boston, his first game action since the frightening injury.