{"id":250698,"date":"2025-10-30T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:20:10","slug":"necas-signs-8-year-contract-with-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250698\/","title":{"rendered":"Necas signs 8-year contract with Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Necas<\/a> signed an eight-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

“Super excited and happy to get this done,” Necas said after practice on Thursday. “I\u2019m excited for the times ahead now. Now I can just focus on playing hockey, winning hockey games, and do whatever it takes to bring a Cup back here to Colorado.”<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old forward could have been an unrestricted free agent after this season. He began his first full season for the Avalanche with an eight-game point streak (six goals, six assists) and has 13 points (seven goals, six assists) in 11 games this season. He got his 40th point in his 38th game since joining the Avalanche, the fastest since the franchise relocated to Denver from Quebec to begin the 1995-96 season.<\/p>\n

“I feel like coming into this season, having the whole camp, being with the guys, feel like a real player on the Colorado Avalanche,” he said. “I\u2019ve seen the things we can do on the ice, and I was like, \u2018Sign me up.\u2019 The core group here is amazing. I\u2019ve been on a great team in Carolina, and being here, seeing how good the guys are here and how special this group is, it was a big part of why I signed here.”<\/p>\n

Necas was acquired by the Avalanche on Jan. 24, 2025, in a three-team trade involving the Carolina Hurricanes and Chicago Blackhawks that sent Mikko Rantanen<\/a> and Taylor Hall<\/a> to Carolina. He was among the first six players named to Team Czechia’s preliminary roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s going to be nice to finally settle in somewhere and have a long-term contract and just focus on winning and nothing else,” Necas said. “I\u2019m super excited, happy I can call this place home now.”<\/p>\n

The No. 12 pick by Carolina in the 2017 NHL Draft, Necas has 339 points (131 goals, 208 assists) in 452 regular-season games with the Hurricanes and Avalanche and 35 points (12 goals, 23 assists) in 66 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n

“I think he\u2019s an electric top-line winger at 26, turning 27 years old (in January),” Avalanche general manager Chris McFarland said. “They\u2019re hard to find. They\u2019re hard to acquire. You\u2019ve got to draft them, or it\u2019s a steep price to get [one], whether it\u2019s in free agency or trade. But I think the fit has been really good. And his speed, his skill, his talent blends in really well here, but it would blend in anywhere, to be honest. He\u2019s a very good hockey player, and we\u2019re lucky to have him.”<\/p>\n

The Avalanche visit the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Friday (4 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, ALT, SN1).<\/p>\n

NHL.com columnist Nicholas J. Cotsonika contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Necas signed an eight-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-250698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}