The Avalanche have recalled Taylor Makar from the Colorado Eagles, the team announced Friday.
The surname will look familiar to Colorado fans, with Cale Makar anchoring the team's blue line.
Joe Sakic's front office made the call with injuries piling up among Colorado's forwards this week.
Nicolas Roy is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Small move, big headline. A familiar last name grabs attention, but the Avs need bodies up front right now, not storylines.
It's like a new hire who shares a name with the company's best employee. Everybody notices, but the work still has to speak for itself.
Zachary L'Heureux is out until at least Oct 28 with an upper-body injury.
Taylor Makar recalled by Avalanche with Nicolas Roy day-to-day and Zachary L'Heureux out
Colorado is 5-4-1 after back-to-back road losses in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
The Avalanche are 3-1-1 at home and host Tampa Bay tonight.
Nathan MacKinnon leads the team with 16 points, including 2 power-play goals.
Cale Makar has 11 points from the back end on a $9,000,000 cap hit.
Martin Necas also has 11 points, including 2 game-winners.
Brock Nelson has 8 points, and Gabriel Landeskog has 4 goals.
Landeskog also owns a game-winner, while Nelson has a power-play goal.
Mackenzie Blackwood sits at .889 in the Colorado crease this season.
The Avalanche score 4.1 goals a game, so the issue is depth, not firepower.
They've also allowed 31 goals in 10 games.
The Avalanche are just 2-3-0 on the road.
Roy has 4 points and a game-winner of his own in six games.
Jared Bednar will have to decide whether the newcomer draws into the lineup tonight.
Tampa Bay arrives at 7-2-0, so this won't be an easy night for anybody involved.
Can a call-up spark a team that has lost two in a row, or is a bigger move coming?
Colorado visits Nashville on Sunday and hosts New Jersey on Wednesday night.
The name will get the headlines. A shift or two of hard, simple hockey would earn him a longer stay.
Should the Avalanche give Taylor Makar a spot in tonight's lineup?
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