{"id":382277,"date":"2026-07-01T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:38:07","slug":"sabres-sign-newly-acquired-defenceman-olen-zellweger-to-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382277\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres sign newly acquired defenceman Olen Zellweger to three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olen Zellweger signed a three-year, $9.3-million contract extension with the team, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2072340886835408991\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Zellweger had been set to hit restricted free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres acquired\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/olen-zellweger\/4cb15016-7cc5-4f43-86e0-70a01a851970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zellweger<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>\u00a0in exchange for centre prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/anton-wahlberg\/65ee87f1-723a-47a6-ad1f-9d695eba31b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Wahlberg<\/a>\u00a0and the 45th overall pick in the draft, which Anaheim used on defenceman Jayden Kurtz,\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<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>In Buffalo, he&#8217;ll be expected to soak up some of the minutes and production vacated by Bowen Byram, who was dealt to the Chicago Blackhawks earlier this off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olen Zellweger signed a three-year, $9.3-million contract extension with the team, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported on Wednesday. Zellweger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-382277","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\/382277","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=382277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}