{"id":75638,"date":"2025-07-19T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75638\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:00:25","slug":"swedish-goalie-15-visits-gophers-amid-action-in-minnesotas-da-beauty-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75638\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish goalie, 15, visits Gophers amid action in Minnesota&#8217;s Da Beauty League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_z2q998ew5\">Top-rated goalie prospect Vilmer Sal\u00e9n Forsberg has reportedly taken a visit to the University of Minnesota campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_46nupnsir\">Forsberg, 15, is considered one of the best goaltenders for selection in the 2027 NHL Draft. From S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden, Forsberg has played for the Swedish U-16 team, posting a .921 save percentage in four games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2009 born Swedish goaltender Vilmer Salen Forsberg visited the University of Minnesota campus yesterday. 15 years old. Was drafted by Muskegon Lumberjacks in the 7th round of the phase 1 USHL draft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c79fUkxLem\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/c79fUkxLem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan Loucks (@DylanLoucks4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanLoucks4\/status\/1946221110556590317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_6key07hw6\">The Swede was taken with the first pick of the seventh round of the USHL Draft by the Muskegon Lumberjacks. He also recently appeared in the Minnesota-based Da Beauty League, making him the youngest player ever to appear in the summer league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5ltambs90\">Da Beauty League features players from the NHL and college hockey in a 4-on-4 tournament, held annually since 2015 at Bremer Arena in Edina. In his debut Wednesday night, Forsberg recorded 38 saves in a scoreless tie. Forsberg plays for Team Tria, who are next in action next Wednesday, with puck drop set for 5 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-rated goalie prospect Vilmer Sal\u00e9n Forsberg has reportedly taken a visit to the University of Minnesota campus. Forsberg,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-75638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114880500432602249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}