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Defence · #8

Cale Makar

Colorado Avalanche
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Calgary, CAN
Draft
2017, round 1, #4 (COL)

Career · 2019–20 to 2026–27

Games
472
Goals
137
Points
510
TOI per game
24:46
xGF% (5v5)
56.9%
Goals above expected
+38.2

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2019–20COL57123850+1221:011219.9%188.954.2%
2020–21COL4483644+1724:191047.7%225.960.2%
2021–22COL77285886+4825:4024011.7%3413.757.4%
2022–23COL60174966+1626:231769.7%3012.056.7%
2023–24COL77216990+1524:462319.1%3916.955.0%
2024–25COL80306292+2825:4324612.2%3523.757.6%
2025–26COL75205979+3224:5119910.1%2917.357.0%
2026–27COL2123+119:09425.0%10.473.1%
Total1 team472137373510+16924:461,32110.4%20898.856.9%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.511.52100200300400
18m20m22m24m26m28m30m100200300400Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2019–20 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

100th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.70100th pct
  • Assists /601.9199th pct
  • ixG /600.51100th pct
  • Shots /606.7898th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)56.9%99th pct
  • CF% (5v5)55.6%97th pct
  • Relative xGF%+4.596th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2491st pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game24:4698th pct
  • PP time share71.8%99th pct
  • PK time share36.2%66th pct
  • Quality of competition25.2%98th pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Evan BouchardEDM0.96
  2. Victor HedmanTBL0.95
  3. Roman JosiNSH0.95
  4. John CarlsonWSH0.94
  5. Zach WerenskiCBJ0.94
  6. Thomas HarleyDAL0.94

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+38.2 goals above expected

050100150100200300400Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−20−100+10+20+30+40

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed34.0 km/h76th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph376th pct
  • Hardest shot146.3 km/h89th pct
  • Distance skated9 km23rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.4%81st pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

38.1 km/h98th pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2024–25

323436384021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.2 km/h, 99th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 37.7 km/h, 98th percentile (60 games)2023–24: 37.5 km/h, 96th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 38.0 km/h, 97th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 38.1 km/h, 98th percentile (75 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.299th pct

▲ +1.2 since 2024–25

0246821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.8, 100th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 5.8, 99th percentile (60 games)2023–24: 6.1, 99th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 6.0, 99th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 7.2, 99th percentile (75 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.1 km81st pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.7 km, 52nd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 13.2 km, 29th percentile (60 games)2023–24: 13.8 km, 66th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 14.3 km, 84th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 14.1 km, 81st percentile (75 games)

Hardest shot

158.1 km/h88th pct

▼ −0.3 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 160.0 km/h, 90th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 162.1 km/h, 96th percentile (60 games)2023–24: 154.8 km/h, 72nd percentile (77 games)2024–25: 158.4 km/h, 92nd percentile (80 games)2025–26: 158.1 km/h, 88th percentile (75 games)

Offensive-zone time

45.3%92nd pct

▼ −0.2 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.7%, 89th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 45.1%, 89th percentile (60 games)2023–24: 44.1%, 81st percentile (77 games)2024–25: 45.5%, 93rd percentile (80 games)2025–26: 45.3%, 92nd percentile (75 games)