{"id":382337,"date":"2026-07-01T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:35:10","slug":"sabres-sign-defenseman-olen-zellweger-to-3-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382337\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres sign defenseman Olen Zellweger to 3-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/06\/26\/sabres-acquire-defenseman-olen-zellweger-from-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently acquired<\/a> defenseman Olen Zellweger to a three-year contract with an AAV of $3.1 million, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres traded for Zellweger from the Anaheim Ducks for the 45th pick in the 2026 NHL draft and forward prospect Anton Wahlberg.<\/p>\n<p>Zellweger, who turns 23 in September, replenishes depth for the Sabres after they <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sabres-blackhawks-trade-byram-836ddca53c6730a269d93020aa92cf26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded Bowen Byram<\/a> to Chicago earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>He played a career-high 76 games with Anaheim last season and had 22 points (7+15).<\/p>\n<p>Zellweger was a second-round draft pick by the Ducks in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres have signed recently acquired defenseman Olen Zellweger to a three-year contract with an AAV of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,65547,2064,100,1608,2998,127],"class_list":["post-382337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-news","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382337","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=382337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}