Martin Necas

Born Jan 15, 1999 in Nove Mesto na Morave, CZE (age 27) · 6'3", 195 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 12th overall in 2017 by CAR (round 1)

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Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Cap hit
2017-18	CAR	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	$925K
2018-19	CAR	7	1	1	2	0	2	6	3	0.29	$894K
2019-20	CAR	64	16	20	36	-6	20	88	65	0.56	$863K
2020-21	CAR	53	14	27	41	25	10	114	45	0.77	$863K
2021-22	CAR	78	14	26	40	5	32	159	55	0.51	$863K
2022-23	CAR	82	28	43	71	5	32	240	57	0.87	$3M
2023-24	CAR	77	24	29	53	-9	42	231	77	0.69	$3M
2024-25	CAR	49	16	39	55	4	10	113	40	1.12	$6.5M
2024-25	COL	30	11	17	28	1	6	81	22	0.93
2025-26	COL	78	38	62	100	47	30	206	85	1.28	$6.5M
2026-27	COL	5	2	3	5	1	0	15	5	1.00	$11.5M
10 seasons	Career	524	164	267	431	73	184	1253	454	0.82

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP
2019-20	CAR	8	1	3	4	0	0	8	14	0.50
2020-21	CAR	11	2	3	5	-1	0	26	12	0.45
2021-22	CAR	14	0	5	5	0	0	22	15	0.36
2022-23	CAR	15	4	3	7	-2	2	42	18	0.47
2023-24	CAR	11	4	5	9	0	0	24	13	0.82
2024-25	COL	7	1	4	5	2	0	15	16	0.71
2025-26	COL	13	1	12	13	6	6	32	21	1.00
7 seasons	Playoffs	79	13	35	48	5	8	169	109	0.61

2017-18 season totals

GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Shooting %	Avg TOI
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	6:54

Contract

$925KCap hitends in 2022, then RFA

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show.

The contract

Signed by the Carolina Hurricanes on Jul 14, 2017, as an entry-level contract: 3 years and $4.388M, beginning in 2019-20. This season is not one of its years: an entry-level contract slides back a year when a player signed at 18 or 19 plays fewer than 10 NHL games. It runs through 2021-22, with 4 seasons left after this one, and he is then a restricted free agent.

Season	Cap hit	Base salary	Signing bonus	Performance bonuses	Paid in all
2019-20	$863K	$833K	$93K	$538K	$925K
2020-21	$863K	$833K	$0	$538K	$833K
2021-22	$863K	$833K	$0	$538K	$833K

Each season of the contract, with this one marked. The cap hit is the same every year; what he is paid is not. The pay is as written when the contract was recorded in October 2024, so a later change, such as the rise in the lowest salary for 2026-27, is not shown.

Contracts he has signed

Signed	Signed by	Kind	Seasons	Years	In all	Cap hit
Oct 30, 2025	Colorado Avalanche	Extension	2026-27 to 2033-34	8	$92M	$11.5M
Jul 29, 2024	Carolina Hurricanes	New contract	2024-25 to 2025-26	2	$13M	$6.5M
Aug 9, 2022	Carolina Hurricanes	New contract	2022-23 to 2023-24	2	$6M	$3M
Jul 14, 2017	Carolina Hurricanes	Entry-level	2019-20 to 2021-22 signed for 2017-18, slid	3	$4.388M	$863K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2017-18 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2017-18 analytics

Rating

-0.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win

0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six

-0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

43.8Corsi for %7 attempts for, 9 against

+8.2CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

23.7Expected goals for %0.2 expected for, 0.7 against

-8.0xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

38.5Fenwick for %unblocked attempts

0.0Goals for %0 for, 0 against

100.0PDO0.0% shooting + 100.0% saves

0Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward line	GP	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Elias Lindholm · Sebastian Aho · Martin Necas	1	4:01	50.0	12.7	0-0
Jeff Skinner · Derek Ryan · Martin Necas	1	1:00	50.0	82.7	0-0
Joakim Nordstrom · Josh Jooris · Martin Necas	1	0:39	0.0	0.0	0-0
Jeff Skinner · Teuvo Teravainen · Martin Necas	1	0:38	0.0	0.0	0-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date	Opponent	Result	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	TOI
Oct 17, 2017	@ EDM	W 5-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	06:54