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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Penguins: No one's giving up on Jason Zucker

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jason Zucker has struggled in his time with the Pittsburgh Penguins. His value though, goes far beyond his contract and that's while he'll still be featured in a prominent role much like Monday night against the Las Vegas Knights. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime.

0:34.4

Why does Mike Sullivan seemingly keep force-feeding Jason Zucker into the top six?

0:43.4

Well, maybe, maybe we're starting to see why. Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning.

0:49.0

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Penguins. Comes your way bright and early every

0:54.3

weekday if you're into football and or baseball. I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Pirates

1:01.6

where you found this. The Penguins will be back home and back on the ice. Today at noon,

1:10.1

out in Cranberry, in preparation for a couple of games.

1:15.4

They've got three games and four days this week, beginning tomorrow night against the senators,

1:23.7

including the return of Matt Murray, the following night in Columbus, and then Sunday afternoon

1:29.9

at home against the Winnipeg Jets. And if things keep going the way they have over the past

1:38.5

few days with this team from the health standpoint, we're going to continue seeing, A, more players available,

1:49.1

obviously, and B, more difficult decisions ahead for Sullivan and his coaching staff. One of them

1:57.1

apparently is not what to do with Zucker. Just listen to what Sullivan had to say after

2:06.4

Zooker popped those couple of goals the other night in Las Vegas. Well, we knew he was going to

2:11.6

play with a lot of energy. You know, he's in his hometown. Yesterday was his birthday. He was

2:16.2

excited to get back in the lineup. So we knew we were going to get a guy that was going to play an inspired game, and I thought he did that. You know, he's,

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