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Zucker's return seems imminent after 'encouraging' full practice

CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Jason Zucker managed to have a sense of humor about his awful injury luck.

When Zucker stepped onto the ice for Wednesday's practice at the Lemieux Complex, an errant puck lightly hit the blade of his skate. He feigned an injury, grasping at his leg before dramatically falling to the ice, rolling around on the ground for some added flair.

He and a couple of teammates had a little laugh about it before going into their pre-practice stretching routines.

Zucker has good reason to be in such a light mood.

After suffering a pretty scary-looking apparent lower-body injury in the Penguins' game in Minnesota on Thursday -- his first game back after undergoing core muscle surgery on Jan.