Edvin Velle, a 12-year-old resident of Olso, Norway, was imitating his idol outside his house on Friday, when suddenly the New York Rangers forward appeared.
Velle was practicing his shot in his driveway when Zuccarello saw him and stopped by to talk hockey.
"Often when I train, I think of NHL players, and suddenly there was one there," Edvin told the Oslo-based newspaper Aftenposten. "Zuccarello is my biggest role model, so it was incredibly cool to meet him."
Velle, an avid youth hockey player, was obviously surprised to see the pro in front of his house.
"It's so nice... to take time for something like that," Linn Stalsberg, Velle's mother, told Aftenposten.