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.

[SwampD]

21 hours ago, LETSTUCHINGO said:

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

And the best sub in world! 

Sweet mother of God! I never knew such a thing existed!

Must try!!!

[JoeSchmoe]

19 hours ago, Taro T said:

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

My son was always a multi-sport athlete growing up. He played minor hockey and baseball both at the highest level.

Sadly, for hockey... only the one sport kids ever made it to play in the OHL or College. If you want to play at a high level, you gotta be a hockey robot. The literature will tell you otherwise, but it's true. You'll also hear that some NHL'ers like McDavid were multisport, and in fact they weren't. They might have played a little house league lax or something but if there was a skate that night, lax wouldn't happen.

For baseball, there's a couple kids that played rep hockey (albeit at a lower level) that got college committments, but most quit by the time they were 13 or 14 and focused on baseball thereafter.

I don't regret not pushing my son into focusing on one sport... To throw all your eggs into one basket with no guarantees of making it, you're going to miss out a lot of fun. That said, if he was a guaranteed 1st round OHL guy, or a future D1 starting pitcher the smart move would have been to go one sport with him.

[Pimlach]

When I was in my school days being a 3 letter athlete was very hard to do and was a lofty goal for some.  

I had a friend make it as a pitcher in MLB, and he had a good career.  He also lettered in basketball and football.   He was a star in all three.  We didn’t have much off season sports in WNY back in the olden days.  He only played baseball in spring and summer, but he made it.  

Times have changed.  

[PASabreFan]

The lineup is presented to the officials before the game. It doesn't change during the game.

 Zucker was in the lineup for the entire game, he just didn't finish the game.

Beyond that, the source of my annoyance is without a shred of data, people had Zucker indeed out of the lineup... for weeks... with bones cracked like kindling... in an iron lung. Which is the only reason Zucker Is Back! had any ring of truthiness.

He's not back. He didn't go anywhere except down the tunnel for a bit.

Edited 4 hours ago by PASabreFan

[SwampD]

Semantics are boring.

Semantics is boring?

not sure which it is.

[K-9]

2 hours ago, SwampD said:

Semantics are boring.

Semantics is boring?

not sure which it is.

Now you’re just being anti-semantic. You are an anti-semantite.