Colorado Avalanche: Cale Makar Shines at NHL Media Day

Ahead of his first full season with the Colorado Avalanche, Cale Makar represented the team at NHL Media Day.

Cale Makar clearly isn’t the sort of person to ease himself into situations gradually. Last season he signed a contract with the Colorado Avalanche during the team’s playoff run and jumped straight in, joining the them for the third game of the first round and scoring a goal in his first game.

Now, ahead of his first full season with the team, Makar was selected to represent the Avalanche at the NHL media day. This was an opportunity to allow his personality to shine, and give fans a small taste of what sort of person he is off the ice.

First up it was time for some photos. Makar wore his best suit, which is the same one he wore during the playoff games of the previous season.

After Gabriel Landeskog had to teach Mikko Rantanen how to tie a tie a couple of years back, Landeskog may need to work his magic on Makar too. Luckily he wasn’t needed this time.

Possibly one of the standout moments of Makar’s time at Media Day was his answer to this question. Obviously he hasn’t gone wild with his first NHL salary, which I think says a lot about him as a person.

The Avalanche social media team introduced us to Cale Cam. I suspect this isn’t the last we’ll be seeing of this feature.

Makar is clearly a quick learner. It’s running joke on Avs social media features that Gabriel Landeskog’s hair is magnificent and must be talked about regularly.

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The Avalanche already have one singing defenseman with Sam Girard. Another one can be added to the list now. I suspect we will see this in context around the holidays. Makar clearly has no qualms about performing for the camera which I think is going to provide us with some excellent social media during the hockey season.

He’s clearly got a good sense of humor too.

Editor’s note: I would pay cash money to hear him and Sam Girard do a duet.

Paul Bissonette (BizNasty) is a bit of a character and has a reputation for his wild adventures and stories. Luckily Cale appears to have made it out of this interview unscathed.

The word pure is being used to describe Makar a lot. Partially due to his age compared to the other representatives for the various NHL teams, and partially because he just exudes fresh-faced innocence.

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Sometimes no context is needed.

It’s really fun seeing behind the scenes of features being recorded. I’m sure it will look cooler later…

https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1170022076826161152

Getting some early practice for his goal celebrations, of which I’m sure there will be many.

Makar rolled with pretty much everything that was thrown at him during media day, but he looks genuinely confused here and it’s kind of adorable.

And, of course, no media day would be complete without a pun on his name.

And, with that, media day was over. Welcome to the NHL, Cale.

You can see Cale Makar on the ice during Colorado Avalanches training camp which begins on Sept 13 at 8:15am MT.