Valter Skarsgård’s shock after the Börje Salming series – the unexpected meetings with Nicklas Lidström and Mats Sundin: “Completely unexpected”

Valter Skarsgård plays the icon Börje Salming.
Then he also met several other hockey legends.
– It’s been great fun, says Skarsgård to Sportbibeln.

The acclaimed TV series about Börje Salming, “Börje – The Journey of a Legend”, rolls on and continues to be talked about. The series goes into Börje’s journey from Kiruna to the top of the world in Toronto and the road to one of the best hockey defenders ever.

Paying tribute to McKenny

There are several different hockey profiles, in addition to Börje then, who appear in the series. In working with the program, the director, the production and the actors have met several of them. The former hockey players and coaches have had to give their contribution to the creation of “The Journey of a Legend” in order to give the viewers as good a picture as possible.
– I have spoken to a bunch of these NHL stars from the 70s, says the screenwriter Martin Bengtsson for the Sports Bible.

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Is there anyone who has been a little extra fun to meet and work with during the creation of the series?
– A character that there were so many stories about, from Börje and others, that was it Jim McKenneywho became a close friend of Börje and whose wife Christine also became a close friend of Margaret (Wendy, Börje’s first wife). He was special and fun to meet. Jim is very, very outspoken, very humorous, and a man who has been through his own share of recovering from addiction. He has very exciting, interesting and straightforward perspectives on that time in Toronto, the NHL during those years, and interesting and straightforward perspectives on who Börje was in it. So Jim McKenny I would say was a very fun meeting, says Martin Bengtsson.