{"id":906071,"date":"2026-09-23T02:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:42:13","slug":"sabres-zellweger-samuelsson-suffer-pre-season-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906071\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres’ Zellweger, Samuelsson suffer pre-season injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incident happened late in the second period when Zellweger was on the receiving end of a bruising hit from Blue Jackets defenceman Carson Soucy. Zellweger remained on the ice, appearing to be in pain, before he was helped to the Sabres dressing room. <\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Calgary native was acquired by the Sabres from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for a second-round pick ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n

In 164 NHL games, Zellweger has 16 goals and 51 points, including career-highs in assists (15), points (22) and games played (76) last season. <\/p>\n

The Sabres also went down another defenceman as Mattias Samuelsson<\/a> exited early after blocking a shot. <\/p>\n

Ruff had no immediate update on Samuelsson, but said the 26-year-old will undergo further evaluation. <\/p>\n

The Philadelphia native had 13 goals and 41 points in 78 games for Buffalo last season, adding seven points in 13 playoff games. <\/p>\n

The Sabres will have the opportunity to exact regular-season revenge as they open their season against the Blue Jackets on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened late in the second period when Zellweger was on the receiving end of a bruising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-906071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}