Julius Bergman of the swedish Division 1 (the tier below Allsvenskan) team Karlskrona HK scored his first goal in his second game two days ago. He's 15 years old and he's playing regularly on Karlskrona's senoir squad, which, incidentally, is one of Swedens best Division 1 teams and is expected to move up a division this season. So he's pretty good. And huge.
My hometown team. The biggest talent we´ve ever had. And as you mention, that can be taken literally if you want. Already at 184 cm (6.04) and weighing in at 85 kg (187 ibs). Right shooting kid that has excellent offensive instincts and doesn´t look out of place among men.
To put it into context: He´s the only -95 born playing Division 1-hockey this far (one -96 born, Arlanda forward Daniel Muzito-Bagenda) and there´s not many -94 born. And that´s on a top three team in what´s considered the best Division 1 (F). In Division F only seven juniors (ten teams…) have been given playingtime, all besides Bergman -92 or -93 born. Also quite unusual for a young defender to earn that kind of trust in Swedish hockey (although Karlskrona-coach Tomas Kempe did give playingtime to both Anton Strålman and Oliver Ekman-Larsson at young age, however not this young...).
Signed through next season, despite big hockey school throwing offers.
After having a real crappy juniorhockeyprogram for decades it´s starting to come together for small Karlskrona. The Westerholm-twins, Simon Karlsson, Bobbo Petersson could all be on their way to becoming Elitserien-players...
Karlskrona has a live feed of most of their games (all of their homegames…), so if you want to see him play a game you can watch him through khk.se . However it costs 99 kronors/game (about 15 dollars…) so might wanna pick your game
And be prepared to be frustrated by a high number of plays…