Despite Canada's loss and elimination on Thursday, a few New Brunswick players had a chance to shine at the world junior ...

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Ukraine honors Stepan Bandera, a nationalist responsible for the slaughter of Jews and Poles. Latvia has a remembrance day for members of the Latvia Legion, an arm of the Nazi German Waffen-SS.

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 ...

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 championship, Latvia did the unthinkable ...

One country that claims to be the home of the world's first Christmas tree is Latvia. Several sources, including the National Christmas Tree Association, note that the first written record of a ...

Timma primarily played in Latvia before he was selected in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies in 2013. He also played in Russia, Greece, Puerto Rico, Turkey and Spain.

Later Monday, Latvia secured a quarterfinal berth with a 4-3 overtime win over Germany. Eriks Mateiko had two goals for Latvia, including the winner at 3:23 of overtime. Bruno Osmanis and Olivers ...