{"id":376150,"date":"2026-06-26T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376150\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:46:09","slug":"ducks-acquire-wahlberg-and-2026-second-round-draft-pick-45th-overall-for-zellweger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376150\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Acquire Wahlberg and 2026 Second-Round Draft Pick (45th Overall) for Zellweger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks\u00a0acquired center Anton Wahlberg and a second-round selection (45th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft for defenseman Olen Zellweger. Anaheim now has seven selections in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/fans\/ducks-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026\u00a0NHL Draft<\/a>, including two in the top 50:<\/p>\n<p>2nd round \u2013 45th overall<br \/>\n2nd round \u2013 50th overall<br \/>\n3rd round \u2013 82nd overall<br \/>\n4th round \u2013 117th overall<br \/>\n5th round \u2013 146th overall<br \/>\n6th round \u2013 178th overall<br \/>\n7th round \u2013 210th overall<\/p>\n<p>Wahlberg, 20 (7\/4\/05), has scored 21-50=71 points with a +9 rating in 140 American Hockey League (AHL) games the past three seasons. The 6-4, 205-pound forward recorded 9-28=37 points with a +5 rating and 20 penalty minutes (PIM) in 68 AHL games with Rochester in 2025-26, ranking third in assists and tied for fourth among team leaders in scoring. He also earned three assists in three 2026 Calder Cup Playoff contests. Wahlberg scored 11-19=30 points in 63 AHL games as a rookie with Rochester in 2024-25 as a 19-year-old. He has also collected 1-3=4 points in 14 career AHL postseason games in his three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Buffalo in the second round (39th overall) of the 2023 NHL Draft, Wahlberg earned 7-7=14 points with a +5 rating in 61 career Swedish Hockey League (SHL) contests with Malmo from 2022-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Malmo, Sweden native represented his country at the back-to-back World Junior Championships, earning silver in 2024 (1-2=3 points in seven games) while he scored 4-4=8 points with a +7 rating in seven games in 2025 to co-lead the club in points and rank tied for third in points. He also earned 3-3=6 points with a +4 rating at the 2023 U-18 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Zellweger, 22 (9\/10\/03), recorded 16-35=51 points with 58 PIM in 164 NHL games with Anaheim from 2023-26. He scored 7-15=22 points with a +4 rating in 76 games with the Ducks in 2025-26. The 5-10, 193-pound defensemen also made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut in 2026, recording 1-1=2 points in three postseason contests.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Anaheim in the second round (34th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft, Zellweger recorded 8-17=25 points in 34 American Hockey League (AHL) games with San Diego in 2023-24. He was named the Canadian Hockey League Defenseman of the Year in 2022-23, the top defenseman among players in the OHL, QMJHL and WHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u00a0acquired center Anton Wahlberg and a second-round selection (45th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft for defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-376150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}