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Colorado Avalanche

Taylor Makar

#16Left Wing6'3"190 lb

-0.1 in 3 days
2025-26 regular season
12
GP
0
G
0
A
0
P
7
SOG
0.0% SH
6:13
TOI/GP

LW · COL · NHL id 8482953

Taylor Makar has played 12 games for the Colorado Avalanche in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 7 shots while averaging 6:13 a night. At 5v5 he has skated 54% of his 5v5 minutes with Zakhar Bardakov and 52% with Gavin Brindley over the last 10 games, and the Avalanche have controlled 51% of shot attempts with Makar on the ice (1-1 in goals, 70% offensive-zone starts). In the Avalanche's most recent game against SJS he was on L4 with Zakhar Bardakov and Gavin Brindley and off the power play. He is shooting 0.0% this season.

Right now

From the Feb 4 game vs SJS, detected from shift data

Line
L4
Zakhar BardakovGavin Brindley
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 5: L3 · L4 · L4 · L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 9 games, 6:26 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 2 line changes.

PPLine44443▲4▼4440m3m7m10mDec 23Dec 29Jan 3Jan 6Jan 10Jan 16Jan 21Jan 25Jan 29Feb 2
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
9 games shown, 6:26 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 12 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed70th7022.6 mph
Bursts 20+ mph26th2622
Hardest shot6th671.5 mph
Offensive-zone time13th1339.1%
Distance skated15th1512.8 mi
High-danger SOG17th173
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 15 attempts, 7 on goal, 0 goals

Shot map, OPP at COL: 15 attempts, 7 on goal, 0 goals, 0.51 expected goals; best chance Taylor Makar at 0.16 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Luck

2025-26 · 12 GP · 0 points vs 1.3 expected

Luck Meter →
Hold

Last 20 games: -48. Positive means running hot (sell), negative running cold (buy).

0.0%
100.4
0.0%
G vs xG
0 / 0.5
Goals against expected goals
00.20.40.60.811.2-0.5goals below expected-0.7σ11/12/4
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

Player analytics

Compare with another player →

2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among forwards. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)

Transition, turnovers & faceoffs

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Luck & trend

NHL EDGE tracking

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2025-26 regular season · 11 of 12 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
+0.005
Season net
+0.01xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.00
Attempts
0
0.000

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.41G
Per 60
−0.328
Drawn / taken
0 / 2minors

MethodLeaders
42.2%
38.7%
42.6%
Transition CF/60
3.2
Turnovers won/60
20.9
Turnovers lost/60
19.3

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Makar

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Makar apartCF% mate apart
Zakhar BardakovC1045:0761%54.7%100% (1-0)50.0% 13:5841.2% 18:12
Gavin BrindleyC631:5443%48.2%0% (0-1)40.0% 7:5857.1% 18:29
Brent BurnsD1231:2642%48.4%— (0-0)52.4% 43:0556.5% 162:00
Parker KellyC629:4140%53.1%100% (1-0)83.3% 4:5850.0% 21:50
Josh MansonD1229:2539%50.9%— (0-0)50.5% 45:0657.3% 163:52
Samuel GirardD927:5037%44.9%0% (0-1)51.7% 33:4856.4% 124:30
Jack DruryC419:3426%43.3%0% (0-1)47.4% 10:2165.3% 31:30
Sam MalinskiD917:4924%75.0%100% (1-0)38.8% 41:5561.0% 138:21
Cale MakarD611:2315%63.3%— (0-0)42.6% 30:0762.1% 98:57
Jack AhcanD38:3712%18.8%0% (0-1)56.7% 15:4863.6% 26:09
Ilya SolovyovD26:559%42.9%100% (1-0)76.9% 4:4161.1% 15:04
Keaton MiddletonD25:337%80.0%— (0-0)53.8% 7:5830.8% 13:05
Devon ToewsD23:485%27.3%— (0-0)63.6% 5:2155.2% 33:14
Joel KivirantaLW12:133%100.0%— (0-0)36.4% 5:0378.9% 7:23

Game log

12 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Feb 4vs SJSW 4-200000000—3:253:25——
Feb 2vs DETL 0-200000210—5:445:44——
Jan 31@ DETW 5-0000000200%8:018:01——
Jan 28@ OTTL 2-5000002100%5:305:30——
Jan 25@ TORW 4-100001010—9:569:56——
Jan 23vs PHIL 3-7000-11030—7:167:16——
Jan 21vs ANAOTL 1-200001020—7:137:13——
Jan 6@ TBLL 2-4000+11001—5:295:29——
Jan 3@ CARW 5-300000010—5:185:18——
Nov 16vs NYIW 4-100000020—3:213:21——
Nov 13vs BUFW 6-300003030—7:117:11——
Nov 1@ SJSOTL 2-300000010—6:076:07——

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations1274:316:13747250.7%48.0%29331150%2.12.870%
Even strength1274:316:13747250.7%48.0%29331150%2.12.870%
5v51274:316:13747250.7%48.0%29331150%2.12.870%

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26COL120000470.0%1716:13

Taylor Makar news

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On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.