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Olen Zellweger
Buffalo Sabres Defense #51
5-10, and the 83rd percentile in shot attempts on a bad team.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ANA | 26 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 5.9 | 19:17 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 62 | 7 | 13 | 20 | +1 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 5.4 | 18:58 |
| 2025-26 | ANA | 76 | 7 | 15 | 22 | +4 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 119 | 5.9 | 16:59 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 164 | 16 | 35 | 51 | -1 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 283 | 5.7 | 18:06 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
7 goals and 15 assists in 76 games, plus-4, at 16:59 a night. His 5-on-5 work was done in Anaheim, where he was on for 53.3 per cent of the shot attempts — 83rd percentile — on a club that finished 29th in expected goals against.
The Finesse Game
The skating is the whole thing and it is very good. The edges let him escape a forechecker in a space that should not be big enough, and the first pass out is quick and usually the right one. He walks the line on a power play like a forward.
The shot is the underdeveloped part. 191 attempts from a median of 41 feet produced 7 goals, and only 12 per cent came from inside 20. He gets the puck through, and that is all it does.
The Physical Game
The cost, and it is the familiar one. 5-10 and 193 pounds. He cannot clear a crease and he loses wall battles to grown wingers. 34 penalty minutes suggests he does not shy away from them, which is admirable and does not change who wins.
He survives by ending plays with his feet and stick before contact becomes available.
The Intangibles
He is 23, a second-round pick, and 164 games in. The possession numbers are genuinely good and were earned in poor circumstances, which is the strongest argument for him: he tilted the ice on a team that had it tilted against them all year.
The honest uncertainty is the one every defenceman his size carries. Nobody knows what happens in a series against a team that decides to run him, and the answer will decide whether he is a second-pair defenceman or a top-four one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,141 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.1%
- 64th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.3%
- 83rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 55 for, 51 against. Expected: 53.1 and 50.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 26 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.24 a game
- Distance
- 2.71 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.0 mph
- 47th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 10 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with ANA · 1141 minutes at five-on-five
- Ian Moore17%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 0.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,141 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Trouba | 47.3% | 53.5% | 50.8% |
| Radko Gudas | 55.1% | 49.1% | 46.6% |
| Beckett Sennecke | 53.8% | 49.8% | 50.3% |
47.3% together, 53.5% for him apart and 50.8% for Trouba apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
191 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 12% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 51% from beyond forty.