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Avalanche Sign Josh Manson To Two-Year Extension

July 10, 2025 at 4:06 pm CDT | by Josh Erickson 2 Comments

The Avalanche have signed defenseman Josh Manson to a two-year extension, the team announced in a press release. The contract carries a $3.95MM cap hit for a total value of $7.9MM, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports (via X).

The deal goes into effect next season and will keep him in Colorado through the 2027-28 campaign. He was entering 2025-26 on the final year of the four-year, $18MM extension he signed to remain with the Avs following their Stanley Cup win in 2022, so he still counts $4.5MM against their cap for this year before his impact reduces by $550K in 2026-27.

Manson has a lengthy but injury-plagued NHL resume. He began his career with Anaheim in the 2014-15 season and grew into a reliable top-four piece over eight seasons there before Colorado acquired him at the 2022 deadline in advance of their championship win. He’s seen his minutes reduced somewhat in Denver but has still spent much of his time there as the No. 2 righty on their depth chart behind superstar Cale Makar.

On multiple occasions, injuries have taken more than half of Manson’s regular-season availability. He only played 27 games in the first year of his extension due to a recurring lower-body injury, and varying issues limited him to 48 appearances last season. He has only played in 61% of the Avs’ regular-season games since his acquisition and has missed roughly one in four games due to injury in his career, a trend positively skewed by four straight seasons with 70-plus appearances early on.

That makes any multi-year extension a risky bet, particularly for a player who will be 34 in October and saw his possession impacts nosedive in 2024-25. The physical stay-at-home defender has largely held up his end of the bargain in helping his team boast the majority of shot attempts while he’s on the ice despite his defensively-minded usage at even strength, but that wasn’t the case last season. Colorado still controlled 51.4% of shot attempts with Manson on the ice, but clicked at 56.2% without him. That difference of -4.8% was the worst in his career outside of his injury-plagued 2020-21 season with the Ducks.

With one year left on his deal, some considered Manson to be trade bait as the Avs looked to create salary cap flexibility. They opted to subtract from their forward group instead, sending Charlie Coyle and Miles Wood to the Blue Jackets and augmenting their defensive depth by picking up veteran Brent Burns in free agency. The extension all but ensures he’ll remain in Colorado for the foreseeable future, perhaps for the remainder of his career, given his recent trajectory.

Image courtesy of Robert Edwards-Imagn Images.

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  1. bigdaddyt

    2 months ago

    Imagine the backend Anaheim could have going into this year if they had kept all their decent D men instead of getting rid of them for peanuts

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    • FearTheWilson

      2 months ago

      Theodore, Fowler, Manson, Lindholm, Benoit, Kulikov. Ouch. Did I forget any?

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