The impossible was made possible, Latvia defeated Canada at the world juniors. The outlook for the rest of the group stage for both Latvia and Canada is now drastically altered going forward.

Eriks Mateiko scored the only goal of the shootout Friday as Latvia stunned an alarmingly uninspired Canada 3-2 in the powerhouse nation's backyard at the world junior hockey championship.

Canada was shocked Friday night by Latvia, losing 3-2 in a shootout in round-robin play of the 2025 World Juniors. The night started off dreadful for Canada following the injury of one of their ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Eriks Mateiko scored the lone goal of a shootout in the eighth round to give Latvia a 3-2 victory over Canada on Friday night in the preliminary round of the world junior ...

Those are all good questions, and as I tend to do for almost every World Junior tournament, I had predicted this team would ...

Canada and Latvia are headed to overtime tied 2-2 in their Group A matchup at the World Junior Championship. Canada held a 1-0 lead for much of the second and third periods before Eriks Mateiko ...

Great moments are born from great opportunity, and with the chance to pull off perhaps the greatest upset in the history of the world junior hockey championships, Latvia did the unthinkable, besting ...

If nothing else, coach Dave Cameron and his Team Canada players showed they can take a punch in the mouth at the world junior hockey championship Friday night. There were no stunned looks or words ...

In fact, this was just Latvia’s third-ever win at the World Junior Championships. In their previous matchups with Canada, they’d been outscored 41-4. This was never supposed to be a close game.

The impossible was made possible, Latvia defeated Canada at the world juniors. The outlook for the rest of the group stage for both Latvia and Canada is now drastically altered going forward. Latvia ...