Cale Makar (UMass) jumped to the NHL with a definite bang.
Less than 48 hours after the University of Massachusetts fell, 3-0, to defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth in the 2019 NCAA championship game in Buffalo, Makar signed a three-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche, who drafted him fourth overall in the 2017 NHL Draft. Two days before, he had been awarded the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the top player in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey.
On Monday night in Denver, with his parents in attendance, Calgary native Makar took a back pass, fought off a defender, and then whipped a shot between the pads of Calgary goaltender Mike
Smith for the Avalanche's third goal in a 6-2 rout of the Flames in Game Three of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoff first-round series. Colorado now leads the series, two games to one.
Makar, who played just over 14 minutes in all on Monday night, finished his two-year college career at UMass with 21 goals and 49 assists for 70 points. He was also named the 2019 Hockey East Player of the Year, and was a 2019 First Team East CCM Hockey All-America selection, as he led the Minutemen to a school-record 30 victories, an NCAA Northeast Regional title, and their first-ever Hockey East regular-season championship. He was also a member of Canada's gold-medal winning team at the 2018 World Junior Championship in Buffalo.
No comments:
Post a Comment