Cale Makar is 23 years old, but if the highlight-reel Avalanche defenseman can play until he’s 40, his career might end as heralded as Ray Bourque’s.
Bourque, who helped Colorado win the Stanley Cup in 2001, has an NHL-record 410 goals for a defenseman. He averaged 0.25 goals per game over his sensational 1,612-game career.
Makar entered Saturday averaging 0.54 goals this season and 0.27 goals in his young career.
Just sayin’.
That’s not to say Makar — who scored “the goal of the year” in overtime on Tuesday in Chicago — is destined to break Bourque’s record of 410 goals.