Wild’s Jason Zucker caught spearing Avalanche player in the groin

The first two nights of the NHL season have brought everything you could possibly want from the return of hockey. We’ve had fights. We’ve had controversial hits. We just needed one thing to complete the trifecta.

This is obviously a terrible thing to do to another human male, but the immediate face-washing and penalty seems like an appropriate penalty. In any case, hockey is officially back! In all of its mean, occasionally uncalled for glory.