This part still cracks Gary Makar up. He and son Cale, the Avalanche’s wunderkind defenseman, found themselves hanging at Bill Hay’s house in Alberta last summer, not long after the younger Makar found himself jumping straight from college to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Gary’s known Hay, the former Chicago Blackhawks center and ex-Calgary Flames president, for a while now, through various business dealings and mutual friends. Hay was the linchpin of the Blackhawks’ celebrated “Million-Dollar Line” in the early ‘60s, flanked by Bobby Hull on the left and Murray Balfour on the right.