The United States, which went undefeated in winning last year's world junior hockey championship, will look to improve to 2-0 Saturday at this year's tournament in Ottawa. But standing in the way is a Latvia team that pulled off a massive upset against host Canada on Friday.

The United States improved to 2-0 on the tournament after beating an inspired Latvian team 5-1 on Saturday. USA will look to stay hot with a meeting against the 1-1 Finnish team on Sunday, while Latvia will take on the Germans on Monday.

Team USA is ready to hit the ice for the 49th annual World Junior Championships (WJC), kicking off their journey on Dec. 26 against Germany in Group A action.

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2025 World Juniors in Ottawa. But first, what happened last night? The story of Day 2 was undoubtedly Latvia’s 3-2 shootout win over a lacklustre Canadian team. The Athletic’s Corey Pronman has you covered on Canada’s causes for concern regarding the biggest upset in tournament history.

Day two of the 2025 World Juniors saw plenty of WHLers stepping up for their countries. Four games were on the schedule, with Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and Latvia all skating away with victories. Here is a look at how WHL players faired on Friday.

Eriks Mateiko scored the only goal of the shootout as Latvia stunned an alarmingly uninspired Canada 3-2 at the world junior hockey championship Friday. The forward moved in on his country's eighth effort before firing home a goal to register one of the biggest upsets in tournament history.