Spare the wreaths. Hold the psalms. You come to bury Cale Makar, you better come correct. Lordy, the yapping. The peanut gallery on X tapped out 150-character obits, a troll at a time. ESPN spent much of Avalanche-Stars Game 5 speaking of Makar as if he’d retired at age 25. For several hours, the greatest defenseman of his generation — of several, now that you mention it — was getting his mugshot cropped for the 2024 NHL Awards show’s “In Memoriam” segment. Here lies CALE MAKAR’S CAREER, 2018-2024, RIP.