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As the Penguins are preparing to get their season underway, forward Jason Zucker is hoping that the high note began the preseason with a sign of good things to come.
Zucker dazzled the crowd with a game-winning goal in overtime, propelling the Pens to a 3-2 win.
Jason Zucker scores in OT. 3-2 #Penguins open pre-season with a win over Columbus pic.twitter.com/Fn3Enkd4kT
— Bob Pompeani (@KDPomp) September 25, 2022
For Zucker, he’s hoping that more goals like that will be coming his way after his 2021-22 season was deemed a ‘nightmare’ by some.
Last season was a nightmare for Jason Zucker, who had to learn to skate a different way just to finish it out.
— Matt Vensel (@mattvensel) September 25, 2022
It was just one preseason game. But he showed today, even before netting his beautiful OT winner, why he could be ready to leave it in his dust. https://t.co/HrQFov76No
Zucker suffered a core muscle injury last year, telling the Post-Gazette that he essentially had to learn how to skate again.
“I basically had to learn how to skate again essentially,” he told the P-G. “I couldn’t skate my normal way so I had to compensate in different ways. That made me have to change my game and start thinking differently because I couldn’t skate the way I wanted to. So it starts out physically then [affects me] mentally.”
Zucker has scored 27 goals during his three years with the team and is in his final year of his contract.
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