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By Anna Kulesa
@akulesa_ NHL.com Staff Writer

Jason Zucker is throwing it back with his goal celebration.

The Pittsburgh Penguins forward celebrated his first-period goal against the Buffalo Sabres with the salute made famous by Jaromir Jagr during Reverse Retro night at KeyBank Center in Buffalo.
Sporting the Reverse Retro "Robo Penguins" inspired jersey, Zucker saluted the crowd after his slap shot went past Sabres goalie Eric Comrie.

The gesture was a nod to Jagr, the former Penguins forward who would

when Pittsburgh wore the "Robo Penguins" jerseys.
Jagr responded to Zucker's salute posting a video to his Twitter account.

"I love it [Zucker's salute]. I feel like they show a lot of respect for our era, for our team because we also had a lot of great players," Jagr said in the video while rocking a Penguins jersey. "So thank you Penguins, thank you Jason. And by the way Jason, keep working on your shot because it wasn't hard enough.'
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