Cale Douglas Makar was born on October 30,1998 and is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League.
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32 Facts About Cale Makar
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Cale Makar was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Avalanche in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
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Cale Makar won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the 2022 playoffs.
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Cale Makar has been widely cited as one of the best defencemen and best players in the modern NHL.
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Internationally, Cale Makar has played for Team Canada, winning gold at the 2018 World Junior Championships.
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Cale Makar played bantam with the Calgary Flames before moving to minor midget with the NWCAA Stampeders.
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In helping the Bandits reach the finals, Cale Makar was third among defenceman in scoring with 7 points in 20 games.
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Cale Makar scored 14 points in 13 games to help the Bandits claim the AJHL championship.
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Cale Makar had 16 points in 13 playoff games to help Brooks to a second straight AJHL championship and six points in five games to help the Bandits to a second-place finish in the Royal Bank Cup.
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Cale Makar was chosen as the RBC Cup Top Defenceman and Most Valuable Player, the first player to ever be named RBC Cup MVP in back-to-back seasons.
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Cale Makar received the CJHL Most Valuable Player Award and won the prestigious RBC National Junior A Player of the Year Award.
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Cale Makar was described as a dynamic skater that creates offence whenever he is on the ice.
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Cale Makar was ultimately selected fourth overall by the Colorado Avalanche, the second defenceman selected in the draft, after third overall selection Miro Heiskanen.
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Cale Makar became the highest drafted player to come straight from the AJHL, and just the second in the first round since Joe Colborne in 2008.
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Cale Makar finished fifth on the team in scoring, second amongst defenceman, with 5 goals and 16 assists for 21 points in 34 games.
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Cale Makar was selected with co-Rookie of the Year honors by the New England Hockey Writers Association and by finishing ninth in defenceman scoring in the Hockey East, he was selected to the conference's All-Rookie and Third All-Star Teams.
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That season, Cale Makar became the first Minutemen honored as Hockey East Player of the Year after he led the league in scoring and finished second in the conference.
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Cale Makar was selected for the Hockey East First All-Star Team and named a Hobey Baker Award finalist.
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Cale Makar scored his first career NHL goal with his first shot in the league in his debut a day later, during Game 3 of the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Calgary Flames.
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On January 18,2020, Cale Makar set a new Avalanche franchise record with his 11th goal of the season, besting John-Michael Liles record for most goals by a rookie defenceman.
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On July 24,2021, Cale Makar signed a six-year $54 million extension with the Avalanche.
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Cale Makar was named a James Norris Memorial Trophy finalist for the second consecutive season.
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Cale Makar won the Norris Trophy, the first Avalanche defenceman to do so, and finished eighth in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy, awarded by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association to the league's most valuable player.
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Cale Makar scored 10 points in a four-game sweep of the Predators, setting a record for points by a defenceman in the first four games of a postseason.
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Cale Makar finished the playoffs with a team-leading 29 points, the fourth-most for a defenceman in a single postseason in league history.
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Cale Makar was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the postseason, and became only the third defenceman to win the Norris and Conn Smythe Trophies in the same season, after Bobby Orr and Niklas Lidstrom.
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Cale Makar was first selected by Hockey Canada to compete for Team Canada West at the World Junior A Challenge in 2015 and 2016.
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Cale Makar was selected to the Tournament All-Star Team in both years and helped Canada West to a gold medal in 2015.
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Unable to defend the gold medal, Cale Makar followed up by setting a tournament single-game record for points by a defenceman in 2016.
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Cale Makar was selected to Canada's under-20 team for the 2018 World Junior Championships in Buffalo, New York, winning gold.
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Cale Makar finished the tournament leading all defenceman with three goals and eight points in seven games, and was the only Canadian named to the All-Tournament Team.
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