{"id":376183,"date":"2026-06-26T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376183\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:10:12","slug":"sabres-acquire-defenceman-olen-zellweger-in-swap-with-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376183\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres acquire defenceman Olen Zellweger in swap with Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zellweger, a second-round pick (34th overall) of the Ducks in 2021, made his NHL debut in January 2024. The 22-year-old put up 22 points with 15 assists and added a goal and an assist in three playoff games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Wahlberg was taken 39th overall in the 2023 draft by the Sabres. In 68 games with AHL Rochester last season, he had 29 assists and 38 points. The 20-year-old has yet to make his NHL debut.<\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition of the 45th pick, the Ducks now own seven selections in the 2026 NHL Draft, including two second-rounders but no first-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres have two first-round picks (Nos. 4 and 20) in Friday&#8217;s first round on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ at 6:30 p.m. ET \/ 3:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mckenna-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watch the 2026 NHL Draft on Sportsnet\"\/>Watch the 2026 NHL Draft on Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs hold the No. 1 pick as the next group of NHL stars gets set to enter the league. Live NHL Draft coverage begins with the first round on Friday followed by Rounds 2-7 on Saturday. Catch it all on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zellweger, a second-round pick (34th overall) of the Ducks in 2021, made his NHL debut in January 2024.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-376183","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\/376183","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=376183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}