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Why Cale Makar isn't playing tonight for Avalanche with injury news

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Colorado gets a big disadvantage from this.

Why Cale Makar isn't playing tonight for Avalanche with injury news originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Colorado Avalanche are a high-powered Stanley Cup contender.

They'll be quite a bit depleted for as long as superstar defenseman Cale Makar isn't playing. He won't be part of Game 1 against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday night, and it's not yet determined how long he'll be out . All that's known for sure is he's missing in action on Wednesday.

Jack Ahcan will dress with Makar out. MORE: Sabres' story of this season is about all the chapters along the way Why isn't Cale Makar playing tonight? Makar was ruled out earlier Wednesday due to injury.

At the moment, Colorado has termed Makar to be "day-to-day. " As usual, the details here are being kept pretty well under wraps. That's how it works in the hockey world.