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As the final buzzer sounded on a Boston Bruins win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night, attention shifted from the joy of a home win to one of the opposing players seemingly in a significant amount of pain.

Wild forward Jason Zucker, who has become a key player in Minnesota’s offensive attack, went down in the closing seconds of regulations after getting slashed by Bruins forward Matt Beleskey. On first glance, it doesn’t look like too hard a slash, but Zucker was down for some time and needed to be helped off the ice without putting any weight on his left leg.

Here’s a look at the play in question:

Michael Russo of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune offered this update after the game:

The Wild forward actually had surgery on his knee back in the 2013-14 season after attempts at rehabbing an injury failed. That cost him the remainder of that season. Zucker also suffered a broken clavicle just last year, which cost him a good portion of the season. So he’s had some pretty awful injury luck.

The 23-year-old scored a goal earlier in the game, his sixth of the 2015-16 campaign. With the Wild already short Zach Parise and defenseman Marco Scandella, this would be an injury they can ill afford.

Though the slash didn’t look malicious from Beleskey, the league could be taking a long look at this one. These kind of taps and slashes happen a lot over the course of a game. This may have been a freak thing where it caught Zucker in the wrong spot. Since there was an injury, though, this will still deservingly come under more scrutiny.

Here's what the Bruins forward had to say about the play after the game:

We’ll have more updates on Zucker as they become available.

Jason Zucker was in a lot of pain after getting slashed. (NESN)
Jason Zucker was in a lot of pain after getting slashed. (NESN)