Necas notched two assists in Tuesday's 5-2 loss to the Islanders.

On Friday, the Carolina Hurricanes made a blockbuster move, sending center Martin Nečas to the Colorado Avalanche. After details of the trade started leaking, a report from Rick Dhaliwal of "Donnie and Dhali" indicated that the Vancouver Canucks called the Hurricanes to see if a Nečas deal was possible.

Flipped to Colorado

Martin Necas is doing his best to make the Colorado Avalanche fanbase excited for the post-Mikko Rantanen future.

The #NYR have the distinction of allowing the first post-trade point to everyone in the Mikko Rantanen blockbuster. Rantanen and Taylor Hall each have assists tonight, their first points as Hurricanes. Jack Drury scored against NY on Sunday, and Martin Nečas had two assists.

Colorado Avalanche general manager Chris MacFarland said it was a "tough business decision" to trade star winger Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes

Artturi Lehkonen scored the game-winning goal with 14.7 seconds left in regulation as the Avalanche beat the New York Rangers 5-4 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Cale Makar scored twice, Martin Necas posted his first two points with the Avs and Nathan MacKinnon added a pair of assists.

After dropping their second straight game, the Rangers have little room for error at this point in the season.

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