Welcome to Day 3 of the 2025 World Juniors in Ottawa. But first, what happened last night? The story of Day 2 was undoubtedly ...
Team Latvia’s journey at the 2025 World Junior Championship ended on Thursday with a 3-2 loss to Sweden in the quarterfinals.
Defenseman Matthew Schaefer, the current favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, was injured early in the first ...
The goalie behind Latvia’s unexpected run at the World Juniors will be remembered for his saves and his smile.
Those are all good questions, and as I tend to do for almost every World Junior tournament, I had predicted this team would ...
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.
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.
Through the first two days of the 2025 World Junior Championship there have been plenty of standouts from different countries ...
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 ...
Finland handed the defending champion United States its first loss at the 2025 world junior hockey championship ... Dec. 28: United States 5, Latvia 1. Danny Nelson scored two goals, including ...
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.