Day 2 of the 2025 World Juniors was another busy four-game slate, but it was all overshadowed by Canada’s lackluster, lifeless showing against Latvia in a shootout loss that will go down as the ...

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Eriks Mateiko scored the lone goal of a shootout in the eighth round to give Latvia a stunning 3-2 victory over host Canada on Friday night in the world junior hockey championship.

EDMONTON -- Nobody saw that coming. Latvia defeated Canada at the World Junior Championship yesterday in a stunning turn of events. Canada didn't get blown out of the water, but the team they lost ...

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 ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...

Latvia’s move to tighten rules on selling tobacco products and substitutes is seeing businesses in the Baltic country scrambling to find loopholes to circumvent the law. Starting in January 2025 ...

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. "They battled," said Cameron, the Canadian head ...

Feldbergs, a player for the Sherbrooke Phoenix in the QMJHL, was key to Latvia’s win. He stopped 54 of 56 shots in regulation and the shootout. In overtime, he blocked all eight Canadian attempts.

Canada was embarrassed on home soil 3-2 by Latvia — a country it had thumped by a combined 41-4 score across four previous meetings — in a shocking shootout Friday. Coming off a disastrous ...

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 — is Sawyer Mynio ...

Latvia 4, Germany 3 (OT) --Eriks Mateiko (Washington Capitals) scored with 1:37 left in overtime at Canadian Tire Centre to send Latvia into the quarterfinal round. Mateiko skated down left wing ...

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. “They battled,” said Cameron, the ...