Colorado Avalanche Getting Ready to Watch Cale Makar Succeed

The Colorado Avalanche will benefit from defenseman Cale Makar’s return to — and projected dominance of — collegiate hockey this season.

The Colorado Avalanche — and seeming all of hockey — are getting ready to watch defensive prospect Cale Makar dominate at the collegiate hockey level.

The Avalanche selected Makar with the fourth-overall pick in 2017 after the dreadful Why Us 48-point season when they also lost the Draft Lottery. Cale was our consolation prize, and he’s turning into quite the prize indeed.

Makar had already committed to playing for the University of Massachussets, and he stuck by that commitment. He did very well in his freshman year with the Minutemen, earning 21 points (5…