Returning regular · 2025-26
Taylor Makar
Colorado Avalanche · LW · L shot · age 25 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- COL
- Lane
- LW
- Age
- 25
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
4 LW regulars in COL
The all-team median is 4. COL’s farm system ranks #32 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
Tonight
COL do not play today
League schedule for 2026-09-29; next league date 2026-09-30.
Nothing listed against him.
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Taylor Makar is among the most talked-about (90th percentile); attention this week is 7.5× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: 15 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 50 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · COL
$0.88M cap hit
2026–27 through 2027–28. Reported
Career arc · era-adjusted points per 82 games
Taylor Makar, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (80% band), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: quantile regression (10th/50th/90th) of qualifying seasons on an age spline, weighted for players who drop out.
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
At the draft the model expected 0 NHL hours through his age-25 season (80% band 0 to 26). He logged 1 hours, between the median and the 90th percentile. The model was applied to his draft class without being fitted or tested on it.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 24 | 12 | 0.0 | 7.5 to 77.0 |
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-09-29
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 22 to 25
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far: age 14 HCAA U15 0.96 → age 15 AMBHL 0.62 → age 16 AEHL U16 1.00 → age 17 AMHL 0.38 → age 18 AJHL 0.40 → age 19 AJHL 0.57 → age 20 AJHL 1.19 → age 21 NCAA 0.06 → age 22 NCAA 0.38 → age 23 NCAA 0.25 → age 24 NCAA 0.79 → age 25 NHL 0.00
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon TanevL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.08 | age 26 NHL 0.29 → age 27 NHL 0.36 → age 28 NHL 0.37 → age 29 NHL 0.50 → age 30 NHL 0.50 |
| Bokondji ImamaL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.08 | age 26 AHL 0.14 → age 27 AHL 0.09 → age 28 NHL 0.06 → age 29 AHL 0.08 |
| Jack StudnickaC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.08 | age 26 AHL 0.28 → age 27 NHL 0.00 |
| Hayden HodgsonR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.09 | age 26 AHL 0.31 → age 27 AHL 0.08 → age 28 AHL 0.15 → age 29 AHL 0.12 → age 30 NHL 0.00 |
| Scott SabourinR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.09 | age 26 AHL 0.09 → age 27 NHL 0.17 → age 29 AHL 0.19 → age 30 AHL 0.29 → age 31 AHL 0.21 |
| Mathieu OlivierR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.09 | age 26 NHL 0.23 → age 27 NHL 0.22 → age 28 NHL 0.39 → age 29 NHL 0.43 |
| Cameron LundC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.10 | age 26 ECHL 0.24 → age 27 Poland 0.35 → age 28 ECHL 0.21 → age 30 ACH 0.32 → age 31 ACH 0.14 |
| Jagger JoshuaL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.10 | age 26 AHL 0.10 → age 27 AHL 0.17 |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.