Jason Zucker Injury---He's back! Yes Back! As In Not In Line Up at end of last game...but now BACK in line up

[That Aud Smell]

16 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

Also, I do not KNOW what a stinger is. 

Not an entirely accurate thing for me to say. 

I effing LOVE stingers.

 

[LETSTUCHINGO]

41 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Zucker is currently in lineup in his normal spot. 

Thank the LORD!

[LETSTUCHINGO]

22 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

I wonder if it was a stinger or something similar?

Also, I do not KNOW what a stinger is. I just know football players get them sometimes (shoulders?), that they often look terrible, but then the player often comes back in during the same game. (Paging the board's physicians. There are a few. The one who pops to mind is @Wyldnwoody44.)

It is basically a pinched nerve where an extremity goes numb I believe.

4 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

Not an entirely accurate thing for me to say. 

I effing LOVE stingers.

 

And the best sub in world! 

[Wyldnwoody44]

45 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

I wonder if it was a stinger or something similar?

Also, I do not KNOW what a stinger is. I just know football players get them sometimes (shoulders?), that they often look terrible, but then the player often comes back in during the same game. (Paging the board's physicians. There are a few. The one who pops to mind is @Wyldnwoody44.)

Hey hey hey. 

So a stinger is when one of the nerves (typically in the neck/shoulder) either gets compressed or stretched out, usually it's compression from a hit. When it happens with enough force the muscles controlled by siad nerve kind of quit working correctly. In the neck C4-C7 control most of arm and hand so a stinger could include pain and paralysis (temporarily) anywhere in the arm. 

Ever fall asleep on your arm and it goes numb and tingly, essentially a stinger is the same thing only more abrupt and more painful. Most players come back from a stinger, but it's the surrounding inflammation from the injury that may keep players out as that I flammation can continue to press the nerve causing issues until resolved. 

[DarthEbriate]

Stingers aren't fun. Usually in football you'll see it where the player gets hit on the side of the helmet or has their head down making a tackle and the whole pile is moving into them. Then, they get up, go to the sideline and you'll see the trainers pushing down/in/out on their extended arm to test the feeling/muscle control coming back. A good one -- miss a few plays. A bad one -- miss the rest of the game.

Sterling Sharpe's career ended because his stingers kept getting progressively worse (in his final seasons, you can see him wearing two straps buckled to the back of his helmet to keep his head up through tackle contact). The real issue were his vertebrae and the worsening stingers were the symptom.

[PASabreFan]

No, he's not.

[Taro T]

On 10/23/2025 at 2:35 PM, darksabre said:

Oh, this is 100% correct. 

Agree.

But USA Hockey, at least through the end of the 20-teens (haven't checked their stuff more recently) was pushing for youth and early teens to NOT specialize in just hockey year round.

Know a lot of families that ignored that advice and went hockey year round (and some others that did baseball, soccer, and lax that way too), but the guidance was to stay more rounded until well into post-puberty.

[darksabre]

25 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Agree.

But USA Hockey, at least through the end of the 20-teens (haven't checked their stuff more recently) was pushing for youth and early teens to NOT specialize in just hockey year round.

Know a lot of families that ignored that advice and went hockey year round (and some others that did baseball, soccer, and lax that way too), but the guidance was to stay more rounded until well into post-puberty.

I think it might be tough for parents to juggle multi-sport athletes with how demanding the single sports are on their own.

Most of the youth hockey players I've encountered (from working at Pure Hockey for a while) were playing Lacrosse in the offseason. 

The best multi-sport athletes I knew in college where the hockey players who also played soccer. They were monsters. 

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

I think it might be tough for parents to juggle multi-sport athletes with how demanding the single sports are on their own.

Most of the youth hockey players I've encountered (from working at Pure Hockey for a while) were playing Lacrosse in the offseason. 

The best multi-sport athletes I knew in college where the hockey players who also played soccer. They were monsters. 

Yeah, all 3 sports are very complementary, but hockey and lax just scream proficiency at both sports.