It’s a testament to how comfortable Cale Makar looked Monday night in his NHL debut that CBC play-by-play commentator Rick Ball mistook him for Erik Johnson on the 3-0 goal. But ask anyone who’s watched Makar play for the UMass Minutemen this season, and they’ll probably tell you that the game he had wasn’t all that surprising. If anything, Makar becoming the first defenseman in NHL history to score his first NHL goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs is proof of just how special a player he is — and a sign of things to come for the Colorado Avalanche.
A closer look at Cale Makar’s debut and first NHL goal
