Cale Makar

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Cale Makar
Date of birth October 30, 1998
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2017 , 1st round, 4th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2015-2017 Brooks Bandits
2017-2019 University of Massachusetts Amherst
since 2019 Colorado Avalanche

Cale Douglas Makar (born October 30, 1998 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since April 2019 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

Cale Makar was born in Calgary and played there among other things in a youth program of the Calgary Flames . During the 2014/15 season he moved to the Brooks Bandits in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), the second highest junior league in his home province after the Western Hockey League . In his first AJHL season he won the championship with the Bandits and was also named Rookie of the Year. Further personal honors followed in the next year when he defended the title with the team and was honored as the most valuable player of the regular season and playoffs as well as the best defender in the league

After these achievements, Makar was considered one of the best available defenders in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and as a result was considered in fourth position by the Colorado Avalanche . This made him the most highly elected player in draft history from the AJHL. The Canadian then continued his career in the American college sector, starting the 2017/18 season for the Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Hockey East , a league in the game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). After being there as a freshman in the Hockey East All-Rookie team took into account he succeeded in the season 2018/19 the breakthrough in the Minutemen, which he called Captain NCAA championship led to the finals of the nationwide, there, however, the University of Minnesota Duluth defeated . With 49 scorer points from 41 games, he placed third in the entire NCAA and was also the most powerful defender. As a result, Hockey East awarded him Player of the Year before he received the Hobey Baker Memorial Award a little later , which honors the best college player in the USA. He became the first Canadian since Ryan Duncan in 2007 to receive the trophy.

Immediately after college season ended, Makar signed an entry-level contract with the Colorado Avalanche in April 2019 , before making his National Hockey League (NHL) debut in the third game of the playoff series against the Calgary Flames just a day later scored his first goal with his first shot. In the further course he came to a total of ten missions and failed with the Avalanche in the conference semifinals at the San Jose Sharks . With the start of the 2019/20 season, he established himself in Colorado's squad and at the end of November 2019 led all rookies in the league with 26 points from 26 games, so that he was honored as NHL rookie of the month .

International

Makar played his first major international tournament as part of the 2018 U20 World Cup , where he promptly won the gold medal with the Canadian selection . He also led all defenders with eight scorer points and was consequently the only Canadian elected to the tournament's All-Star team.

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 2018 gold medal at the U20 World Cup
  • 2018 All-Star Team of the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014/15 Brooks Bandits AJHL 3 1 4th 5 4th 20th 1 6th 7th 4th
2015/16 Brooks Bandits AJHL 54 10 45 55 28 13 3 11 14th 0
2016/17 Brooks Bandits AJHL 54 24 51 75 18th 13 5 11 16 4th
2017/18 University of Massachusetts Amherst NCAA 34 5 16 21st +9 20th
2018/19 University of Massachusetts Amherst NCAA 41 16 33 49 +32 31
2018/19 Colorado Avalanche NHL - - - - - - 10 1 5 6th +3 0
AJHL total 111 35 100 135 50 46 9 28 37 8th
NCAA overall 75 21st 49 70 +41 51
NHL overall - - - - - - 10 1 5 6th +3 0

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2018 Canada U20 World Cup gold medal 7th 3 5 8th +5 0
Juniors overall 7th 3 5 8th +5 0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

His cousin Tom Lysiak played nearly 1,000 games for the Atlanta Flames and Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL in the 1970s and 1980s .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wes Gilbertson: Calgary's Cale Makar becomes highest drafted player from AJHL. calgaryherald.com, June 23, 2017, accessed April 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Avalanche Signs Cale Makar to Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, April 14, 2019, accessed April 16, 2019 .
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Squad of the Colorado Avalanche in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Makar, Cale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makar, Cale Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada