Börje - The Journey of a Legend (Season 1)

Börje – The Journey of a Legend (2023) is a Swedish biographical drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Walter Skarsgård plays Börje Salming, who left the mining town of Kiruna and became the first European-born player to achieve true NHL stardom — over 700 games in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey and a number 21 that Toronto retired in his name.

Director Amir Chamdin focuses on everything the highlights reel skips: the culture shock of arriving in North America in 1973, the hostile press, the personal losses that ran alongside the wins. Hedda Stiernstedt and Jason Priestley co-star. Skarsgård brings a quiet stubbornness to Salming that earns the sports-legend framing rather than just assuming it. Stream Börje online on iFILM.