Cale Makar First Career Hat Trick

[Spirits]

Got it vs hated Detroit. Discuss.

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[mack74]

Couldn’t have been against a more deserving opponent!

 

[McMetal]

Watched it from the stands! What a night!

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Watched it from the stands! What a night!

We've still got a period to play and Georgiev in net. Caution would be the prudent move.

 

[Spirits]

We've still got a period to play and Georgiev in net. Caution would be the prudent move.

No chance. We got this.

 

[The Merchant]

 

[MaKarter]

 

[Snow Arc]

Where were you when Cale got his first hat trick?

 

[wayninja]

I can't believe I went to my son's graduation instead of watching the game

 

[GeoRox89]

I can't believe I went to my son's graduation instead of watching the game

Where are your priorities? You can always have more kids and most of them would graduate. Cale Makar can’t get more first career hat tricks

(March is an odd time for a graduation)

 

[The Moops]

I guess he just needed to shed some dead weight and then he'd take off

 

[Chelis Chili]

MAKAR SCORES FIRST CAREER HAT TRICK IN HIGH-SCORING WIN
Cale Makar (3-1—4), Nathan MacKinnon (1-3—4) and Mikko Rantanen (0-4—4) all skated to four-point outings, highlighted by Makar’s first career hat trick and MacKinnon once again moving up the NHL record book for longest home point streak. Colorado (39-20-5, 83 points), which currently occupies third place in the Central, is now within two points of Dallas (38-17-8, 85 points) for the division’s top spot.

* Makar joined Calgary’s MacKenzie Weegar (3-0—0 on Feb. 10, 2024) as the second defenseman this season to add to the Hockey Fights Cancer Fund of the V Foundation – AstraZeneca is donating $5,000 up to $500,000 to the cause for each hat trick.

* Makar became the fourth defenseman in Avalanche/Nordiques history to score a hat trick following Sandis Ozolinsh (Dec. 6, 1999), Uwe Krupp (March 1, 1995) and Bryan Fogarty (Dec. 1, 1990). It also marked his ninth career multi-goal game, which passed Ozolinsh (8) for the most by a blueliner in franchise history.

* Makar also tied Ozolinsh on another franchise list – the most four-point games by defensemen in Avalanche/Nordiques history (both w/ 4). Since Makar entered the League in 2019-20, only three blueliners have as many: Erik Karlsson, Roman Josi and Victor Hedman (all w/ 5).

* MacKinnon, who reached the 40-goal mark for the third time in his career, extended his home point streak to 31 games and tied Bryan Trottier (31 GP in 1981-82) and Mario Lemieux (31 GP in 1995-96) for the fourth longest in NHL history. He trails Wayne Gretzky (40 GP in 1988-89 & 33 GP in 1985-86) and Guy Lafleur (32 GP in 1978-79).

sauce: https://media.nhl.com/public/news/17798

 

[UnkleKraker]

I feel blessed as a hockey fan. I got to watch prime Peter Forsberg who was a supernatural player. Now I have gotten to watch prime Makar who is such a sublime talent with hockey sense off of the charts. I am not worthy.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I'll bump this Makar thread. The guy is top 5 in defenseman scoring in the playoffs since the lockout.

And there's almost no talk about it since we're not impressed unless he's competing with records from guys like Orr or Coffey.

Being ahead of Doughty and Burns but behind Carlson is like a negative achievement.

We are spoiled.

 

[McMetal]

At last, Cale Makar has reached his ultimate potential of becoming as elite as Nikita Zadorov.