Welcome to Day 3 of the 2025 World Juniors in Ottawa. But first, what happened last night? The story of Day 2 was undoubtedly Latvia’s 3-2 shootout win over a lacklustre Canadian team.

We’ve reached the fourth day of the 2025 World Juniors with a full slate of games ... the first time since their stunning upset loss to Latvia on Friday. They’ll be without defenseman Matthew ...

There were only two games on the fifth day of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship, but they were both bangers. We’ll go in reverse order and talk first about what happened between Team Latvia and ...

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.

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.

Team Latvia’s journey at the 2025 World Junior ... Last week’s upset resurfaced memories of Girgensons’ own World Juniors experience in 2012. He smiled from the Lightning locker room on ...

Getting the call to replace the irreplaceable Matthew Schaefer — who suffered what’s being reported as a broken collarbone in Friday’s shocking loss to Latvia ... re in a world championship ...

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 ...

Sweden is moving on to the semi’s after a 3-2 defeat over Latvia The first period was ... Mateiko currently lead the World Juniors in goals with five, and that doesn’t include the shootout ...

It’s nice. It doesn’t always happen,” Capitals General Manager Chris Patrick said of the attention on Washington’s prospects.

In nine years of playing in the tournament's top division, Latvia has never sniffed a medal. It started 0-27 at the highest level of the world juniors, securing its first round-robin win in 2022.

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 ...