Cale Makar suddenly ruled out after scary second-period sequence

Gino Hard just reported that Cale Makar is done for the Colorado Avalanche game in Ottawa after a play in the second period.

Colorado and Ottawa are in overtime tonight, with 4:25 left on the clock, and the Colorado Avalanche are playing it without their best defenseman.

Hard noted that Makar is also done for the game after the play in the second period.

The word "also" suggests Makar isn't the only Colorado Avalanche player finished for the night. Who else went down, and what exactly happened on the play, hasn't been reported.

Makar had no injury listed in the latest injury report before tonight, so there is nothing to compare this against. No diagnosis and no timeline have come out.

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Makar has 23 points in 18 games this season, five of them goals. He is the engine of the Colorado blue line and of the power play, where he has 1 goal and 6 assists.

How much does Colorado's blue line depend on Makar?

Completely, and the timing makes it worse. On Monday the Colorado Avalanche placed Josh Manson on long-term injured reserve and recalled Alex Gagne from the Eagles, as we covered in Josh Manson's long-term injured reserve move.

No defense corps is built to lose its best player and a regular in the same week. If Makar misses real time, Jared Bednar will be asking a lot of the depth defensemen, and that is a problem even for a team with a 7-1-2 home record.

The Colorado Avalanche came in at 11-6-2 and winners of two straight, after a 6-3 win in Toronto on Tuesday. They have been solid on the road lately, but only 4-5-0 away from home, and the next road game is already on the schedule: Saturday, November 14, in Montreal.

Whether Makar is on the ice for it is now the question hanging over Colorado. Any update from the team after the final buzzer will be added here.

More to come.

This article was written with the help of artificial intelligence, based on public reports and official sources.

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