{"id":470144,"date":"2025-06-11T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=470144"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:45:16","slug":"colorado-avalanche-defenceman-cale-makar-wins-norris-trophy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/11\/colorado-avalanche-defenceman-cale-makar-wins-norris-trophy-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Defenceman Cale Makar Wins Norris Trophy Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big day for one <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/10\/nhl-rumours-colorado-avalanche-salary-cap-crunch\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> defenceman. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/cale-makar-wins-norris-trophy-for-2024-25-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News emerged<\/a> on Wednesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a> has won the second Norris Trophy in his career. Makar was surprised with the honour at a golf outing in his hometown of Calgary, Alberta.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:zazcjahlcb3jfrhcriq7xpn7\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lrdqbotoqk2e\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigkujgbuoqazt2itfnxitju2z42advvvoepqafez3s42reb6mi334\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Cale Makar has won his second career Norris Trophy!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:zazcjahlcb3jfrhcriq7xpn7?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TSN (@tsnofficial.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:zazcjahlcb3jfrhcriq7xpn7\/post\/3lrdqbotoqk2e?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-06-11T15:35:16.439Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Cale Makar Wins Second Norris Trophy<\/h2>\n<p>Makar put together another great season with the Avalanche. The 26-year-old blueliner registered 30 goals and 62 assists for 92 points in 80 games this season. He became the ninth NHL defenceman to score 30 goals in a single season. Makar is the first defender to achieve the feat since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=greenmi03,greenmi02&amp;search=Mike+Green&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Green<\/a> did it with the Washington Capitals in 2008-09. Green racked up 31 goals in that campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Makar averaged ice time of 25 minutes, 43 seconds per game. He collected career-highs in power-play goals (12), shorthanded goals (two) and shots on goal (246) this season. Colorado placed third in the Central Division, but fell in the the first round of the post-season to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/06\/dallas-stars-make-head-coaching-change\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that the former University of Massachusetts product has won the Norris Trophy. Makar won the award in 2021-22 season and has been one in the top of the voting for a number of seasons. He also won the Hobey Baker Award for college hockey&#8217;s top player in 2019 and won a gold medal at the 2018 IIHF World Juniors for his native Canada.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>Makar beat out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hughequ01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Hughes<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/03\/vancouver-canucks-re-sign-reliable-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/werenza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Werenski<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/05\/columbus-blue-jackets-signing-of-forward-shows-organizational-message\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> for the Norris. The other two finalists also put together great seasons, but Makar was the clear-cut winner. Colorado&#8217;s standout blueliner totaled 176 first-place votes while Werenski got 13. Hughes was the only other defender to get first-place votes with two. The Avalanche<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/04\/dallas-stars-vs-colorado-avalanche-stanley-cup-playoff-series-has-wild-finish\/\" target=\"_self\"> may have fallen short of expectations<\/a>, but Makar did his part in getting his team to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Makar is one of the top players in the world and this award solidifies that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big day for one Colorado Avalanche defenceman. News emerged on Wednesday that Cale Makar has won the second Norris Trophy in his career. Makar was surprised with the honour at a golf outing in his hometown of Calgary, Alberta. Cale Makar has won his second career Norris Trophy! &mdash; TSN (@tsnofficial.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T15:35:16.439Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":447273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1515,5781,1146,1140],"class_list":["post-470144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-cale-makar","tag-colorado-avalanche-news","tag-nhl-awards","tag-norris-trophy"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470167,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470144\/revisions\/470167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}