{"id":250562,"date":"2025-10-30T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250562\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:53:08","slug":"colorado-avalanche-sign-forward-martin-necas-to-eight-year-92-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250562\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche sign forward Martin Necas to eight-year, $92 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> have signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/martin-necas\/8480039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/martin-necas\/8480039\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Necas<\/a> to an eight-year, $92 million contract extension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an AAV of $11.5 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports that the deal includes $60.4 million in signing bonuses. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martin Necas has agreed to an 8-year deal with the Avalanche, 8 x $11.5M AAV.<br \/>There&#8217;s $60.4 million in signing bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1983941905948832220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Necas, 26, has seven goals and 13 points in 11 games this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 12th overall by Carolina in 2017, Necas was traded to Colorado on Jan. 24 along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jack-drury\/8480835\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jack-drury\/8480835\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Drury<\/a> and two draft picks in the deal that sent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mikko-rantanen\/8478420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mikko-rantanen\/8478420\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> to the Hurricanes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is in the second season of a two-year, $13 million contract and was set to be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Internationally, Necas helped Czechia win gold at the 2024 IIHF World Championships. He also was a part of the Czechia roster that won the then-named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-hlinka\/8447868\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-hlinka\/8447868\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Hlinka<\/a> Memorial Tournament in 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the AHL, he helped Carolina\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, to a Calder Cup title in 2019. He also won a Czech Extraliga championship in 2016 with Kometa Brno. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Nove Mesto na Morave, Czechia native has 131 goals and 339 points in 452 career NHL games, split between the Hurricanes and Avalanche. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche have signed forward Martin Necas to an eight-year, $92 million contract extension. 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