“When I am older I want to be an Engineer because it involves: creativity, drawing, science and math. I like all of these, but mostly I like science and being creative. In order to prepare myself to be an engineer I will have to get good grades in school work because engineers are really smart and know a lot. My real dream is to be a hockey player in the NHL and I am working very hard on my skills to make it happen. Whether I become an engineer or an NHL hockey player, I know I will be doing something I love.”



These are the musings of a 10-year-old Cale Makar. He wrote this paragraph and many more for a class assignment. The name of the project was called “Cale’s Amazing Life: Autobiography of Cale Makar” and it was dated Nov. 4, 2008. He authored this work nine years before the Colorado Avalanche selected him with the fourth pick at the NHL Entry Draft.



It was before he went to the University of Massachusetts and turned a once-troubled...