will return from last year’s team. Ozols returned to the Latvian Optibet Hokeja Liga this season after a stint with the Charlottetown Islanders of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League ...

Girgensons has watched Latvian hockey grow firsthand ... “Having the World Junior team now where the talent level is kind of aging in one little group, it’s pretty impressive to be in the ...

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.

Several NHL teams ... juniors quarterfinal preview of USA versus Latvia, Sweden versus Switzerland, Canada versus Czechia and Slovakia versus Finland. Ian Kennedy discusses the World Para Ice ...

Team USA, the tournament's defending champion, defeated upstart Latvia 5-1 on Saturday in the world junior hockey ...

The captain of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Saint John Sea ... Like Osmanis, Serkins was on Latvia’s U18 team last season and performed at an even higher level, recording ...

Team Latvia forward Davis Livsics (7) loses possession of the puck after being pressured by Team Sweden defenceman Theo Lindstein (9), forward Felix Nilsson (17) and defenceman Tom Willander (24) and ...

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 world junior hockey championship.

What could’ve possibly been the biggest upset in World Juniors history was Latvia beating Canada in a shootout on Dec. 27.

Western Michigan's Hampton Slukynsky made 25 saves and the defending champion United States defeated Latvia 5-1 on Saturday in the world junior hockey championship. The U.S. improved to 2-0 in ...