The Colorado Avalanche have signed forward Martin Necas to an eight-year contract extension worth $92 million. The deal, with an $11.5 million AAV, runs through the 2033-34 season and begins in 2026-27. Necas, acquired in a trade last January, has started the 2025-26 season with 13 points in 11 games.
Martin Necas, the 26-year-old Czech forward, secured his long-term future with the Colorado Avalanche by signing an eight-year extension on Thursday. The contract carries a $92 million total value and an annual average value of $11.5 million, including a full no-move clause for the first seven years. It kicks in starting the 2026-27 NHL season, making Necas a key piece through 2033-34.
Necas was acquired by the Avalanche on Jan. 24, 2025, in a three-team trade involving the Carolina Hurricanes and Chicago Blackhawks. The deal sent Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall to Carolina, with Rantanen later moving to the Dallas Stars on a $96 million, eight-year pact. In his first full season with Colorado during 2025-26, Necas has tallied 13 points (seven goals, six assists) in 11 games, ranking third on the team behind Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar. He opened the year with an eight-game point streak (six goals, six assists) and reached his 40th point in his 38th game with the Avalanche on Oct. 23, 2025—the fastest such pace since the franchise moved to Denver in 1995-96.
"Super excited and happy to get this done," Necas said after practice. "I’m 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." He joins a core group including MacKinnon and Makar, who led the Avalanche to the 2022 Stanley Cup, and shares the locker room with captain Gabriel Landeskog.
Avalanche general manager Chris MacFarland praised the fit: "He’s an electric top-line winger at 26, turning 27 years old. They’re hard to find... His speed, his skill, his talent blends in really well here." Necas, the No. 12 pick by Carolina in 2017, has 339 points (131 goals, 208 assists) in 452 career regular-season games across Carolina and Colorado, plus 35 playoff points in 66 games. He was named to Czechia's preliminary roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.