BREAKING NEWS : NEWS announce Avalanche Sign Taylor Makar To One-Year Entry Level Contract and he’s happy to stay…. Read more

Another Makar is heading to Colorado.

Taylor Makar, the younger brother of Cale, signed a one-year entry-level contract with the Avalanche on Monday following the end of his NCAA season with the University of Maine. The deal is for the 2025-26 season.

Makar, 24, had 18 goals and 30 points in 38 games.

He was tied for first on the team in goals and was second in points. Makar also led the team with six game-winning goals.

Drafted in the seventh round in 2021, Makar will report to the Colorado Eagles on an amateur tryout for the remainder of the 2024-25 season.

The forward is 6’4 and 210 lbs. He was a pleasant surprise this past year and could get a good opportunity to continue his development in the AHL

On Sunday night, Vegas Golden Knights forward Tomáš Hertl was injured in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped Hertl on a breakaway, and as Hertl went for the rebound, Lightning defenseman Emil Lilleberg sent him flying into the boards. Hertl got up, favoring his right arm, and went down the tunnel. He did not return to the game.

“[Hertl] has the breakaway there towards the end of the third period on Sunday night,” said Kyle Bukauskas on Monday’s episode of the 32 Thoughts Podcast. “First chance, save by Vasilevskiy, he’s going for the rebound, and Lilleberg on the backcheck, hands into the lower back of Hertl, and [he’s] tumbling into the boards.