Avalanche sign star Cale Makar to largest contract in NHL history at $163.2 million
Makar just became the NHL's first $20 million player
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Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: Sportsnet · Aug 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM ET
- Coverage span: 41 min
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 1h 0m
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All-time coverage
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2 publications are covering this story.
How coverage developed
First report from Sportsnet
Reported by CBS Sports
Story updateHeadline updated
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Story updateCBS Sports joined coverage
Story updateCoverage went from 1 to 3 sources
Story updateCoverage went from 3 to 2 sources
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 72.8 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 31.9 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 8.5 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 3.5 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 5 of 5
Strongest signal: story prominence, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.
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