He later played in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year at the age of 31.He was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Centennial All-Star Team in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries.For the 1995–96 season Makarov was dropped from the Sharks' roster and did not play and became an assistant coach for the Russian national team during the 1996 World Cup.[citation needed] In 2001, Makarov was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame during the Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany.[5] On 27 June 2016, it was announced that he would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on 14 November 2016 along with Eric Lindros, Rogie Vachon and Pat Quinn (posthumously).