WINNIPEG — After a very awkward, very emotional 36 hours, Jason Zucker is still here, and boy oh boy, the Wild are sure glad he is.



Trying to get teammate Ryan Donato’s attention as he held the puck in the right faceoff circle Tuesday night, Zucker slapped his stick on the ice so loud, so many times and with such persistence, you could almost hear the groan in the screaming crowd over what it sensed was about to come.



With six attackers on the ice after Zucker himself drew a late power play with the Wild pushing for the tying goal against the Winnipeg Jets, Donato — the recently-acquired revelation — spotted Zucker, dished him a sweet pass and teed him up for a picture-perfect wrister over Connor Hellebuyck’s glove for the tying goal with 1 minute, 27 seconds left in regulation.



“We were talking about the whole game trying to hit that spot because we knew it had been open,” Donato said. “And, I mean, what a time...