Mastodon
Search for:
@Ottawa Senators

Latvia WINS BRONZE MEDAL! – Latvia Beats USA In INSANE Overtime To Win First Medal! | NHL News



Kirk Day and Noah Byrne react to Latvia beating the USA to win win the bronze medal and get their first professional hockey medal. Kristians Rubins get the overtime goal for Latvia and is the hero in this game along side Arturs Silovs who played an incredible tournament beating the USA and Sweden.

Join Our Discord: https://discord.gg/xKsxTmM3mJ

35 Comments

  2. My Name

    1:05 Rubins wasn't available for the begining of the tournament, because he was bussy with AHL Play Offs

  5. Pamela Kilponen

    And today is a national holiday in Latvia. As an American living in Finland, I am so happy Latvia got the bronze. Latvians also happy about how they were treated in Tampere!

  6. Egils Brencis

    And the greatest captain Kaspars Daugavins/Daugaviņš… mighty be interesting – his surname is derive from "Daugava", the largest river in Latvia and by diminutive "-iņš" could be translated as "small Daugava".

  8. Geoff York

    Cannot commend the city of Riga or the people of Latvia highly enough. Watched 3 preliminary games out there and it was great place to go, amazing atmosphere, good food / beer and fantastic weather. Enjoy this!!!! Lat – vi – ja!!!

  10. The Mauwie

    Very nice to hear this from you guys. ✊ One really important thing for me is that Arturs Irbe got a medal too.

  11. Lil Ernecgs

    3:40 Latvia has had some other really amazing goaltenders. Matīss Kivlenieks got Latvia's first ever win and a shutout against Canada just 2 years ago (and, unfortunately, he passed away the same year), Artūrs Irbe, an absolute hockey legend of late 1990s and early 2000s who was also the goalie coach for Latvia this year, Edgars Masaļskis and Elvis Merzļikins as well, whose performance recently has been pretty bad but he has to deal with being the primary goalie for the blue jackets.

  12. valts777

    Latviešu komanda šogad lieliski spēlēja! Prieks, ka orku smaka no mūsu komandas ir prom pilnībā! Lūk, arī rezultāts lielisks!

  13. neceto

    It's literally a national holiday in Latvia you cant imagine how long we fought for this. So much blood, sweat and tears. Our men are legendary and true heroes for achieving this even though circumstances we're against them.

  14. Ray Hoodoo

    I really hope Silovs gets put into NHL, he deserves it! Amazing performance, and well deserved tournament MVP.

  15. Jānis Grīnvalds

    An interesting fact is that the whole team with coaches are professional hockey experience, and they are completely Latvians by their attitude. In the year 1996, when they played first time in the highest level championship, there were about 50/50 ethnic Russians, from the Soviet past, some of them being even really pro-kremlin, like colonizers mentality Russian…like Znaroks. Now these are totally mentally motivated patriots of Latvia… without those "I've born here" therefore I am legit. You are Latvian when You feel like it, not mentally in Russia, but living in here for your career.

  18. lkrnpk

    Gudlevskis was the 2nd goalie for this game, didn't get to play of course

  24. Mad Wolf

    Been waiting for this moment for over 30+ years….finally it happened!!! Couldn’t be more prouder 💪🥳

  27. BIOSHOCKFOXX

    Talking about goalie/goaltender, you have to remember Arturs Irbe (Artūrs Irbe), nicknamed The Wall, he was playing in NHL as well and later became coach, then he coached back for our club for one season back in 2015-2016, and now he was the goalie coach for this championship. Arturs Shilovs (Artūrs Šilovs) is walking in his footsteps, he might be the legacy, the next Wall. His future is bright, so expect him to be seen at NHL games in later part of his career.

  30. Steven Cooke

    And as you say, it wasn't a case of the US having a terrible game, or a goalie standing on his proverbial head. This was a full team effort.

    One of the most rewarding things in sports is to see an underdog pull together and all play at their absolute best when it matters most.

    Congrats, Latvia!!!

  32. Haralds Sakne

    Rubins is our best defender 😉 He did make the starting line up, he joined when his playoff run ended with the wranglers in the ahl 🙂

  33. jerkkub

    I'm not from Latvia but i'm so happy for them and this is very good for ice hockey seeing new countries rise! Ps. Seeing you guys so happy for Latvia made me smile a lot.

Write A Comment