Jason Zucker’s return game after missing 30 games from a core muscle surgery against his former team ended in a terrible way. After a first period that saw Zucker get a nice video tribute from the Wild and also record an assist on the Penguins’ first goal, he left the game injured going down in a heap.
This video isn’t as gruesome as the reverse view, which better showed Zucker’s legs twisting into the splits but it shows the damage done after taking a little cross-check from Kevin Fiala.
Zucker was down for a while but eventually got up and off the ice with assistance from teammates.