The great ones lead the scouting report. Cale Makar makes you rip the stupid thing up and start over from scratch.
“I remember having (coach) meetings (where they asked), ‘How do we defend this guy? If he goes down to here, where do we go?’” Rick Tocchet, the former Avs assistant coach and Turner Sports hockey analyst, said recently when asked about Makar, the Front Range’s generational defenseman. “You almost have to reinvent your system, right?
“Sometimes for Makar, he does stuff that a lot of defensemen have never done in the past, (such as) where he ends up (on a play). So it kind of screws up your system … (that’s) what MVP guys do: They put a wrinkle in your system.”
