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Cale Makar can sense when the Colorado Avalanche are clicking offensively. Those moments when they're swarming the attacking zone, zipping passes to one another and a goal feels inevitable.

But as a defenseman, Makar also understands what it's like to endure that kind of pressure during an opponent's offensive onslaught.

"When we get buzzing on our team and can get some good pressure, [defenders] just start getting tired and then you just start exposing different seams and stuff like that," he said. "And when you're put on the press and you're in your own zone, it definitely isn't fun. You're kind of just trying to stay alive out there and live for another second."

In a sense, that makes Makar…