The Buffalo Sabres acquired defenseman Olen Zellweger from the Anaheim Ducks for the 45th overall selection in Friday’s draft and forward prospect Anton Wahlberg, the teams announced. <\/p>\n
Zellweger is a restricted free agent this summer. He posted a career-high 22 points in 76 contests this past season while averaging nearly 17 minutes per game. <\/p>\n
The Ducks drafted Zellweger 34th overall in 2021. <\/p>\n
Wahlberg was a second-round choice of the Sabres in 2023. He is yet to make his NHL debut and notched 38 points in 68 games for the AHL’s Rochester Americans in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
The Sabres have traded Michael Kesselring, Bowen Byram, and Alex Tuch so far this offseason while also signing Zach Benson to a long-term extension. Buffalo has approximately $13.8 million in cap space to keep pursuing roster improvements, per PuckPedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ducks now own two second-round picks in this year’s draft. Anaheim has been quiet so far this offseason but is rumored to be open to moving forward Mason McTavish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres acquired defenseman Olen Zellweger from the Anaheim Ducks for the 45th overall selection in Friday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-376613","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\/376613","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=376613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}