The Colorado Avalanche and Martin Necas have agreed to an eight-year, $92 million contract extension, with an annual average value of $11.5 million.

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It is front-loaded with $60 million in signing bonuses. Necas is also getting a full no-movement clause for the first seven years of the deal. Not to mention, he is getting a nice bump from the $6.5 million he is currently making.

The Avalanche acquired Necas from the Carolina Hurricanes as part of the first trade involving Mikko Rantanen. Later, Rantanen would be traded to the Dallas Stars and would haunt the Avalanche in the playoffs. But President Joe Sakic and GM Chris MacFarland stood firm in their beliefs that they were not paying Rantanen more than Nathan MacKinnon‘s $12.6 million AAV.

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