Cale Makar News & Stories

I'm in Thinking-of-Guys mode.

JFresh ranks the 20 best defencemen going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

Love when teams get creative.

The presumptive No. 1 pick in this week's draft tore college hockey apart this season. EP Rinkside spoke with coaches who took him on, and the one who coached him, to see what made him so hard to handle.

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche's second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The New York Rangers dispatched the Washington Capitals in four games, and now there are only 15 teams remaining.

The Florida Panthers took a 2-0 series lead in the battle of Florida. Sean Shapiro has the full scope of the action from last night across the league.

It might seem so simple to take the best defensemen you can in the playoff pool. But Michael Clifford explains why strategy is key.

The tale of the tape for the Colorado Avalanche and Winnipeg Jets first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

What goes into a vote for the NHL awards? Read on to find out.

What makes Cale Makar and Devon Toews so effective? It's all in the consistency.

Sean Shapiro checks in with one of the Norris Trophy favourites.

College hockey used to be dominated by players aged 22-24. Seems like that's no longer the case.

Sean Shapiro bring his weekly look around the NHL, starting with the job rookie GM Daniel Brière has done thus far in Philadelphia.

Who needs bold predictions? Sean Shapiro brings you the boring ones that will actually happen this season.

JFresh continues his look at the NHL's top players by looking at the defenceman.

So many teams are facing elimination or facing facing-elimination. The first round ends this weekend, at the latest.

The defenceman hit Jared McCann in first period of Game 4.

JFresh previews the Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken's first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

It's all about the championship.

In the second part of a conversation with Corey Sznajder, JFresh discusses how the data should be used when breaking down a game.

JFresh goes in-depth with hockey's most prolific stat tracker about analytics, skillsets, playoff hockey, and more in part one of a two-part series.

It's a Friday and as we move into crunch time for both the real and fantasy seasons, Cam Robinson has got you covered.

J.D. Burke summoned a roundtable to vote on the NHL awards at the halfway point in the 2022-23 NHL season.

A look at the players that drew the most page views across the globe on Elite Prospects.

The reigning cup champions are looking like, well, reigning cup champions.

Now Cale Makar is a known commodity, but Mitch Brown looks back at how the Norris Trophy winner put it all together.

NHL hockey is back, and that means it's time for Take Town to make its triumphant return to EP Rinkside.

JFresh analyzes the top 20 defencemen in the NHL entering the 2022-23 NHL season.

Dimitri Filipovic uses tracking data from this year's playoffs to look at which defencemen transition the puck out of their own zone most effectively, and why it's such an important skill in today's game.

The Stanley Cup-champion Colorado Avalanche have a tough offseason in front of them, but as long as they can keep this hockey operations department intact, they should be able to weather the storm.

Abbey Mastracco looks at the key factors in the Colorado Avalanche's 2022 Stanley Cup championship win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Ondrej Palat's 12th Stanley Cup Playoff game-winner helped the Tampa Bay Lightning stave off elimination against the Colorado Avalanche. Abbey Mastracco with details in Denver on his career ascent.

JFresh breaks down the clash of the titans in the Stanley Cup Final using stats gathered by TopDownHockey and AllThreeZones.

Filip Chytil has seven goals in the postseason after only scoring six in the regular season, Cale Makar is heating up but the goalies have gone cold. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert has this week's 3 Stars.

It hurts Ryan Lambert to stand up for a PDO team — and the Rangers' PDO is 102.7 — but he must. The Western Conference Final is underway, the Eastern Conference Final begins Wednesday night and Take Town has all of the intriguing storylines and more.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Avalanche finally got over the hump in round two by beating the Blues, and how the Rangers came back once again to beat the Hurricanes in seven.

EP Rinkside analytics columnist JFresh previews the Western Conference Final matchup between the Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers.

JFresh looks at the underlying numbers and the key matchups in the second-round Stanley Cup Playoff series between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Avalanche made quick work of the Predators, and how the Blues were able to overpower the Wild in round one.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at this year's three finalists for the Norris Trophy, the tremendous seasons they had respectively, and whether the voters got it right.

This Colorado-Nashville series has been nearly everything we predicted it would be before it started, and the Avs are on the verge of one of the most dominant sweeps of the salary cap era.

Playoff hockey is... good? EP Rinskside senior columnist Ryan Lambert has his highlights from the first week of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the Colorado Avalanche and Nashville Predators Western Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

Most defencemen don't matter much in fantasy hockey. They're a dime a dozen. But a young, elite-level producing defender? That's another matter. EP Rinkside fantasy analyst Cam Robinson identifies some of the best options on the market.

People are starting to get that end-of-the-season feeling even if there's still plenty of hockey to go.

You're in Take Town, a regular feature on EP Rinkside in which senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at a handful of leading storylines from around the league, offering his take on each one.

EP Rinkside's resident Fantasy Hockey expert Cam Robinson is looking way into the future, ranking the 50 best players for the 2026-27 season. This is a must-read resource for anyone in a keeper league.

JFresh ranks the top 30 defencemen going into the 2021-22 NHL season.

As we enter into another NHL season, we must remember that there is more at stake than simply Stanley Cup aspirations for the 32 clubs. There is fantasy hockey glory...

Ryan Lambert looks at five candidates for the James Norris trophy in the 2021-22 NHL season, awarded to the league's best defenceman.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how effectively defencemen transitioned the puck out of their own zone this past postseason.

Training camps are just a few weeks away, but there is still plenty that is not yet resolved around the NHL. Whether it’s players potentially looking for a trade, depth charts that aren’t quite clear or pending free agents who are already at the center of contract speculation, we have plenty to go over.

EP Rinkside recaps all of major trades and transactions from the second day of the 2021 NHL Draft, plus commentary and quick-hitting analysis.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Vegas Golden Knights came back to beat the Colorado Avalanche in four consecutive games and win the West in the process.

The Colorado Avalanche lost in the second round for the second straight year, this time to the Vegas Golden Knights. Now they face a new challenge this off-season as they try to retain their top talents for another run next year.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. This time we'll take a look at the Norris Trophy nominees.

It feels like we've been waiting years for this series. The Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights are meeting up in a clash of the titans style second-round showdown, and JFresh sets the stage for that match with this preview.

With round one matchups starting to get wrapped up, we're going to be taking a closer look at how the teams that won their series did so. First up, the Colorado Avalanche and Boston Bruins.

JFresh breaks down and visualizing the West Division first round matchups.