Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk made an interesting comment hinting at who he considers the best defenseman in the NHL, ...

Be it English, Gaelic or any of the other countless languages spoken in the country today, Peter Mackay tells Susan Mansfield ...

Cale Makar (8) of the Colorado Avalanche looks on during a break in the action of the first period of a game against the St. Louis Blues at Ball Arena in Denver on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 ...

Cale Makar carried the depth-deprived Avs with eight 30-minute games in the first 40. Then the NHL's ice time leader got a relative break.

But Makar held his own, including posting seven points in 20 playoff games. “Outside of being way smaller than everyone else, he was doing things that a lot of guys probably didn’t have the ...

Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche celebrates with his teammates after scoring a goal in the first period against the Calgary Flames in his NHL debut -- Game 3 of the Western Conference First Round.

Cale Makar (8) of the Colorado Avalanche handles the puck against the Florida Panthers during the third period of Florida’s 5-4 win at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.

Makar was a freshman at UMass in October of 2017. He was at TD Garden’s Legends Club for Hockey East Media Day and had yet to play a game above the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He and fellow ...

But Makar's dad and the rest of his relatives are big, and Carvel figured Cale would keep growing. Sure enough, he did all through high school, reaching 5'11" and 187 pounds.

Makar saw him periodically freshman year and also took his abnormal psychology class. He never came late, Halgin remembers, and Chau was always impressed by the amount of notes he took.

Jimmy Makar was one of Joe Gibbs' first hires at Joe Gibbs racing. Today, 30 years and 358 Cup and Xfinity victories after Makar signed on, he's JGR's longest-tenured employee.