Latvia plays its first game of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship against one of the best teams in the world in Canada.
The 2025 IIHF World Junior Championships heads into day two of action in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with four games on the ice. This game features Latvia playing in its first game of the tournament taking on Canada, who is playing on back-to-back days to kick things off. The tournament overall showcases 10 teams broken up into two groups of five. Canada and Latvia are members of Group A along with Finland, Germany and the United States to form a gauntlet for each team. Latvia has never made the medal round in the IIHF World Junior Championship. Canada missed the medal table last year, but won back-to-back championships here and have 20 overall Gold Medals in this event.
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Game Date: Friday, Dec. 27, 2024
Game Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
TV: NHL Network
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Last season Latvia finished with just one win in group play and three losses. They scored just six goals and allowed 22 to opponents, the second most of any team in the tournament overall.
In Latvia’s match to Canada it was raced off the ice from the puck drop. They gave up 10 goals and were blanked in the loss. The 10 goals allowed were the second most in a group play match and the margin of victory was by far the largest.
For Canada, it is looking to make another run at the medal table after a disappointing run last year. Canada scored the second most goals and allowed the second fewest in group play. Then, in the shock of the tournament, Canada was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Czechia 3-2 after falling behind 2-0 in the first period and watching the deciding goal cross the net with just 70 seconds left in regulation.
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