Re the comment on Zucc's stick, it was pretty funny. I talked with someone that knows him very well/teammate for Norway. He claimed Zucc only used such a long stick so that he can cheat in practices. Every time they like go line to line, board to board or something like that, Zucc can stop 6+ feets before the line by holding out his max length stick. Said it had been driving the coach of Norway nuts, but Zucc had stood firm claiming it was the stick that mattered. Said that Zucc had claimed that he had to get some benefit from playing with such a long stick, since it was heavier to carry around, it would be "unfair" if he had to skate as far as everyone else since he carried a heavier stick. He also said that Zucc was the biggest cheater alive, its like he has a principle to never complete one drill without cheating in some way.
This guy had asked Zucc if he always cheats in drills in NA too. Zucc had told him that once on the farm team two goons had skated up to him and told him to complete the drills the same way as everyone else, and then he had done it because he didn't want to mess with them. One of the goons had two black eyes and the other had a broken nose. But never otherwise. Haha pretty funny. I doubt everything (anything?) is true, but kind of give a bit of an insight to what a character Zucc is. Probably 99% on a positive side, but also I can understand if he annoys people too at times... This younger Norwegian player had a lot of respect of him at least.
