SAN JOSE — Taylor Makar landed in Palm Springs and was preparing for a weekend on the road in the American Hockey League, but that all changed with one phone call.

Gary and Laura Makar were at home in Calgary, watching Cale and the Colorado Avalanche play in Las Vegas and preparing for a long weekend of consuming sports on the couch, but all that changed with one phone call.

When the younger Makar brother got off the plane in Southern California, he learned it was dream-come-true time … up the road in San Jose.

“(Cale’s and Taylor’s agent) Brian (Bartlett) called and asked what I was doing,” Gary told The Denver Post. “I said, ‘Just watching the Avs game.’ He said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ Then he goes, ‘Taylor doesn’t know yet, but he’s getting called up and he’s playing tomorrow.’ And

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