A crowd of 50,000 people in Latvia is roughly 3% of the country's population, which is nothing to scoff at. A small country with a huge heart for the sport.
Don't forget, there was a live feed on national television and through the radio that even more people were tuning n for. Allegedly, the massive crowd at the freedom monument overloaded the livefeed signal so just as the hockey team arrived, no one could see it except hear it on the radio.
@@09cutie0pie Actually, for some reason the national television DIDN'T document any of this. No news, no live feed of it. Social media compensated for that I guess.
@@SpruceX They tried on LTV1, but internet there was so overused that many of mobile network companies switched to 3g, so it was not so flawless. I'm not from Riga, but partly saw it on youtube where was a live stream from LTV1.
3% is huge. To put that into perspective, if 3% of USA went out like Latvians did, that would be roughly 11.8 million people. Latvia's population is roughly 1.8 million.
I am from Czechia and usually spend nearly whole World Championship with friends in pub. Latvia is for a long time our second favorite team and seeing them grab bronze in OT made us probably even happier than bronze for us last year. Needless to say, we got hammered right after and found out the score of final next day from the news. Congrats to Latvia, they played well and it's fully deserved medal
I was in Praha when you had the championship and the Latvian fans walking around daydrunk chanting Latvia Latvia all week was hillarious, made me root for them too.
@@whateverpbk exactly, also considering how poorly Canadian NHL teams have been doing in the past decades, not winning any cups after the 1993… You would think they’d care more about their national team’s succes.
As an American I was overjoyed when Latvia beat us. I really wanted them to beat Canada and perhaps Germany for gold, but I’m so happy they got their first medal and I want to see them keep developing
Honestly, I was absolutely selfish and greedy for the Americans to win it all. But I cannot say enough for the love the Latvians had for their medal winners. "It's just a bronze medal." Shut up. They earned it. Absolutely earned it. Well done, Latvia!
never been so happy for a team thats not my own. im a czechia fan but honestly seeing latvia win and also just how HAPPY they all were brought a tear to my eye, its so heartwarming
I always root for Latvia at every international tournament. Every time they come to Canada for the World Jrs they're everyone's 2nd favorite team. I don't know why but they're so likeable .
Hockey is Latvia, Latvia is Hockey. I cried for like half an hour when our boys scored that OT goal. And taking part in the parade was awesome, everyone was cheerful, singing, crying emotions were sky high.
@@ngarcia103 Latvia is the little underdog country that never did anyone any harm and was oppressed for decades via the USSR. Germany does not deserve the same "underdog" status.
I was waiting for you to make this video! For us Latvians it means a lot. Like, for me it was a childhood dream to play ice hockey, because I liked the sport and what it meant to us Latvians. I finally started to fulfill it last year, by joining a beer league team. Also during the holiday, many Latvian players were walking around the city and me and my buddies met the player that skates alone and held his head #13 Rihards Bukarts( 2:07), made a few photos with him and me holding the medal. Chugged a beer and he said this medal is not mine, it’s all of ours, all of the people, because of the support shown and all the efforts we’ve made as a nation togheter, to make this happen. This medal means even more to Latvians than you can actually comprehend, because it is a way of gaining our national unity and the confidence back as a nation after all the events that happened during and after WW2 with the Nazi and Soviet occupation of our country. Many people were crying with joy during this win. Also fun or not so fun fact, Latvians were the ones that taught Soviets about ice hockey(also one of the main reasons that Soviet Union existed, after WW1) as ironic as it may seem.
During this years tournament, I w as really amazed of the amount of support other countries showed to our little Latvia. Finland, Chechia, Slovakia,US, Canada, Slovenia, Sweden and Norway, our sisters and bros in Estonia and Lithuania, and countless others - thank you so so very much! Your support was amazing! There jas never been anything like that in any sport for us. We are hockey nation in heart, and it feels truly amazing to be united in such passion with the rest of the world! We celebrated for everyone who supported Team Latvia!!❤
I was in that crowd and let me tell you - it was just as electrifying as each goal our Latvian team scored during championship. It was such an uplifting and unexpected event our country truly needed! You can feel joy and proudness in the air! After welcoming our team back home, city got in to a celebration and I got a couple of messages from friends about team players popping up in different bars during that day! and lots of my friends got to take pics with those medals!
Proud of you all; no rioting, burning cars on fire, destroying businesses, assaulting people, etc. Seen it all in the US. Makes me want to visit. How is it over there?
@@GymnasticsCoach83 as another person who lives in latvia its very good if you visit i would absolutely recomend you go to the riga centre and definetly don't be afraid to leave Riga as there are other cities with alot of tourism for example Sigulda,Liepaja, and controversialy Ventspils. If you are in Sigulda another good place to go after would be aluksne and take the old train to Gulbene and tour the train museum there and also tour the train depo went there 2 times both times the tour gide was very fun liked to make jokes and overall a good experience.
had a friend playing hockey in the states and he had a latvian guy on the team and me and him ended up getting really close, low key was cheering for latvia in the semis but he is still absolutely over the moon with the bronze. He grew up playing at home so he knew a ton of the team and even got to facetime them for beers and cigars😂 got to see firsthand how much that meant to them and it’s so fucking cool
Germany also got its first medal in a looong time and it's our first silver 🥈. So pretty cool to see latvia and us having such a great world cup. And yeah, honor where its due . It's still canada's sport.
I thought you guys had the tourney wrapped up. Was not expecting anything from Canada and still don't know how we managed it When you lost to Germany i thought to myself, wouldn't be cool for Ge3rman Latvian final. You would probably kick us bad in the bronze game
I'm so proud of the German team. Here in Germany, Hockey is fairly small, but everyone I know who loves it just lost it when we made it to the finals. Congrats, Canada, you were the better team, but boy does that silver look good on the guys! Also, go Latvia!
DEL is a good league. German hockey is solid.and getting better all the time. my cousin played for Landshut and Munich and my friend played for Mannheim after they left the NHL.
@@DampfGecko Ya, the third period, Canada played very well. Still a good tournament for Germany. Nothing wrong with silver, in a tournament with that many good teams. Was expecting Sweden, Finland or U.S.A. to face Canada for gold. Congrats to Germany. :-)
You missed a point that Latvia nearly didn't qualify for quarter finals, having lost to Slovakia and being even on points with them meant that if Latvia doesn't gain a point against undefeated Switzerland they do not qualify. They played their hearts out that game against Swiss. That game was just as noteworthy as the win against Swedes.
2:46 - "There are countries like Latvia where hockey is the most popular sport" I recently learned that this is the case in three countries: Canada, Latvia and Finland.
Dude Kaspars Daugavinš used to play for the Bruins! He was a decent journeyman defenseman for the NHL. Kristers Gudlevskis (goalie) used to be third string for the Lightning. He also stopped like 53 shots vs team Canada one time.
Wish you have included their game vs Switzerland on last day of groupstage where they had to get atleast OT to make it to quaters over Slovakia and in the end they won it and got themselves 3rd over us (czechia) That game was incredible heroics from them.
If you had won the FIFA World cup I'm sure you would have had one :) even though Canada has way more professional soccer players than Latvia has pro hockey players...
Found your channel when I started watching NHL highlights regularly this season. So glad you covered this because this is a huge thing for us. I remember first seeing H. Vitolins as a kid when I first started watching the world championship. Now seeing him as a coach who finally brings our guys to medals is tremendous. Also as others have said considering that there are 80x to 100x times more hockey rinks and also registered players in USA than in Latvia it's not a small feat. But here's the thing that I think all these videos missed... If Golden Knights takes the cup then Teddy Blueger will become the second latvian to win the cup after Sandis Ozolins. So there will be another celebration. Cheers!
No parade for Canada? Well I guess when you win the tournament in 5 out of 8 years its not quite as special as getting your country's first ever medal. Latvia was always one of those under dog teams I cheered for. I'm so happy to see them get a medal this year, maybe their junior team will also get a medal in this years tournament.
i was at the welcoming and the trains going into riga were packed i wish i could find a video of what it was like. In the capital it was very crowded my moms colleages went with us so we were there about 30 of us. it was hard to stand in the sun so we in a peacefull rugby way got out of the crowd into shade and moved to a corner of the street where we could see the bus arive and wave at them but sadly they were in a standard public bus. we went to stand on a hill and we shouldve brought binoculars but we didnt and we couldnt see anyone on the stage but we definetly heard the crowd and the people talking in the microphone. Personaly i loved it even if i never met them or saw them. But the unity was there and the atmosfere was amazing with everyone united and happy which our country in the past years has been kind of lacking in public events.
Germany had a very good tournament and a good game against Canada in the gold medal game. Came close. Nothing wrong with winning silver in a tournament with that many good teams.
silovs is a beast. now having some context of how massive this was, no wonder silovs is ice cold. He had his entire country behind him; the Vancouver playoffs is nothing compared to the weight of that tournament for silovs tbh.
"first medal"? You mean in 1920? LOL They won the gold 28 times. Not to mention all the silver and bronzes. We would get a holiday almost every year, if that was the case.
Thank you for your videos @Eck, as they remind me, as someone who watches from a Canadian viewpoint, that there are countries like USA where hockey is popular ;)
Those celes remind me of Vancouver 2010 when the Men's and Women's teams both came up golden. Probably the proudest moments I've ever been as a Canadian.
As a Canadian I wish Latvia won the tournament cuz we don’t think of it as big deal but if they had 50,000 person celebration for a bronze medal imagine if they won
In europe the WC is pretty much like your stanley cup playoffs in NA. To europeans its the pinnacle of the hockey season, great event to end it all on. In Europe we actually plan our leagues to fit in with IIHF schedule, kinda wish NHL did that one day. would be crazy to see the line ups. ofc people follow alot of NHL, but its hard to really get invested into a team thats on a different continent, compared to your home country. if i had to quess why its not as popular in NA its probably because europeans generally can be just way more patriotic towards their own country. expecially us finns.
Well done Latvia 👏👏👏. Awesome to see the country get behind the hockey team like that. This tournament isn't what it could be , but it's still good hockey to watch. Germany has a good development team too, watch out for them on the international stage in a few years. Great seeing the game grow.
2 000 000 country win 350 000 000...this is amazing...Latvia is third on the WORLD...unbelievable Uz priekšu latvieši!🇱🇻 Par Mūsu LIELO, MĪĻO, STIPRO LATVIJU 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻 💕💪 🔥
Way to go Latvia! Great to see a team/country that hasn't won a medal fight so hard to get the bronze. Well p-layed, well won, well deserved. Will we see them back next year??? 🤞Maybe for a silver???🤔
With the NHL taking a massive break mid-playoffs, it's nice to see something good coming out of hockey. Happy for Canada, but honestly it's more exciting to see Latvia win their first medal and be so hyped about it. As for the playoffs... what is the NHL thinking? Many of us have already lost interest with the final teams not really being teams that many people follow (LVGK are somewhat an exception to this, growing a large fanbase fairly quickly), and they throw in extra days between the finals in a sport that by no means should be played this deep into June? Doesn't seem like a good move if they want to keep people engaged.
There is a game today. The last one was only five days ago. Had both semi-finals gone seven the break would have been shorter. Probably only three days, which is not that much.
I hope the tournament brings more attention to Michael Carcone, who absolutely deserves a shot at being on an NHL roster. He led the AHL in points, was good in his sparse NHL appearances including drastically reducing his penalties (the one major flaw in his AHL stats), and is a UFA this offseason. Not to mention the hunger he’ll undoubtedly have to prove himself at the NHL level. Unlikely he’ll ever see this, but if he somehow does… Mike, best of luck to you man, I’m rooting for you!
Unrelated but we need those ref cams in the NHL as well as having them do more camera shots from cameramen that go on the ice for cellys like they did for the juniors and this tournament.
Wow that is a great story. Just goes to show you Canadians are just used to winning. I'm not a stats guy buy honestly surprised this is latvias first ever medal. I thought they would've had a bronze at some point.
A crowd of 50,000 people in Latvia is roughly 3% of the country's population, which is nothing to scoff at. A small country with a huge heart for the sport.
to add to that for comparison, that crowd would make up the sixth, almost fifth largest city in Latvia
Don't forget, there was a live feed on national television and through the radio that even more people were tuning n for. Allegedly, the massive crowd at the freedom monument overloaded the livefeed signal so just as the hockey team arrived, no one could see it except hear it on the radio.
@@09cutie0pie Actually, for some reason the national television DIDN'T document any of this. No news, no live feed of it. Social media compensated for that I guess.
@@SpruceX They tried on LTV1, but internet there was so overused that many of mobile network companies switched to 3g, so it was not so flawless. I'm not from Riga, but partly saw it on youtube where was a live stream from LTV1.
3% is huge. To put that into perspective, if 3% of USA went out like Latvians did, that would be roughly 11.8 million people. Latvia's population is roughly 1.8 million.
I am from Czechia and usually spend nearly whole World Championship with friends in pub. Latvia is for a long time our second favorite team and seeing them grab bronze in OT made us probably even happier than bronze for us last year. Needless to say, we got hammered right after and found out the score of final next day from the news. Congrats to Latvia, they played well and it's fully deserved medal
I have a feeling the women's bronze was a major point of celebration for Czech fans last year (and now this year)!
I was in Praha when you had the championship and the Latvian fans walking around daydrunk chanting Latvia Latvia all week was hillarious, made me root for them too.
With how little us Canadians usually care about that tournament it's heartwarming seeing Latvia enjoy it so much
For real!
It's strange in a way that given how little the world cares about hockey, the world championships in hockey isn't cared about in Canada.
@@whateverpbk exactly, also considering how poorly Canadian NHL teams have been doing in the past decades, not winning any cups after the 1993… You would think they’d care more about their national team’s succes.
@@mikidof fr. But we need to remember that there are those canadians who watch the WC, but it could be far more popular...
@@bruhdude6712 I'm Canadian and I look forward to and watch this tournament every year. I wish it was more popular here.
As an American I was overjoyed when Latvia beat us. I really wanted them to beat Canada and perhaps Germany for gold, but I’m so happy they got their first medal and I want to see them keep developing
As a Canadian I was kinda half hoping they would beat us too. It was just so much fun watching the fans.
Latvia win brought tears to my eyes. I love things like this in hockey!
Honestly, I was absolutely selfish and greedy for the Americans to win it all.
But I cannot say enough for the love the Latvians had for their medal winners. "It's just a bronze medal." Shut up. They earned it. Absolutely earned it.
Well done, Latvia!
those people who say that don't realize that Latvia has a smaller population than most US state !!
@@tomblade State? Cities..
exctactly, Canada won gold but Latvia won championship
For us it's gold.
Thank you and much respect back :)
never been so happy for a team thats not my own. im a czechia fan but honestly seeing latvia win and also just how HAPPY they all were brought a tear to my eye, its so heartwarming
As a Latvian myself seeing these other Countries greeting Latvia is truly heartwarming, goosebumps just never ending.🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻❤️
I always root for Latvia at every international tournament. Every time they come to Canada for the World Jrs they're everyone's 2nd favorite team. I don't know why but they're so likeable .
Hockey is Latvia, Latvia is Hockey. I cried for like half an hour when our boys scored that OT goal. And taking part in the parade was awesome, everyone was cheerful, singing, crying emotions were sky high.
I’m from Canada and I’m more happy that Latvia got there first medal the Canada winning again.
Same here. For similar reasons, I wouldn't have been all that upset if Latvia beat us, or if Germany beat us for gold.
@@ngarcia103 Latvia is the little underdog country that never did anyone any harm and was oppressed for decades via the USSR.
Germany does not deserve the same "underdog" status.
They beat us before a few years qgo
Fr!!
@@bogeybichon7000 why not? We won our last medal 70 years ago
I don't care about Canada's performance in this, but it was amazing to see Germany and Latvia play so well and medal
I was waiting for you to make this video! For us Latvians it means a lot. Like, for me it was a childhood dream to play ice hockey, because I liked the sport and what it meant to us Latvians. I finally started to fulfill it last year, by joining a beer league team. Also during the holiday, many Latvian players were walking around the city and me and my buddies met the player that skates alone and held his head #13 Rihards Bukarts( 2:07), made a few photos with him and me holding the medal. Chugged a beer and he said this medal is not mine, it’s all of ours, all of the people, because of the support shown and all the efforts we’ve made as a nation togheter, to make this happen. This medal means even more to Latvians than you can actually comprehend, because it is a way of gaining our national unity and the confidence back as a nation after all the events that happened during and after WW2 with the Nazi and Soviet occupation of our country. Many people were crying with joy during this win. Also fun or not so fun fact, Latvians were the ones that taught Soviets about ice hockey(also one of the main reasons that Soviet Union existed, after WW1) as ironic as it may seem.
I love it. I'm so happy for Latvia. I wish them more success in the future
During this years tournament, I w as really amazed of the amount of support other countries showed to our little Latvia. Finland, Chechia, Slovakia,US, Canada, Slovenia, Sweden and Norway, our sisters and bros in Estonia and Lithuania, and countless others - thank you so so very much! Your support was amazing! There jas never been anything like that in any sport for us. We are hockey nation in heart, and it feels truly amazing to be united in such passion with the rest of the world! We celebrated for everyone who supported Team Latvia!!❤
I was in that crowd and let me tell you - it was just as electrifying as each goal our Latvian team scored during championship. It was such an uplifting and unexpected event our country truly needed! You can feel joy and proudness in the air! After welcoming our team back home, city got in to a celebration and I got a couple of messages from friends about team players popping up in different bars during that day! and lots of my friends got to take pics with those medals!
Proud of you all; no rioting, burning cars on fire, destroying businesses, assaulting people, etc. Seen it all in the US.
Makes me want to visit. How is it over there?
@@GymnasticsCoach83 as another person who lives in latvia its very good if you visit i would absolutely recomend you go to the riga centre and definetly don't be afraid to leave Riga as there are other cities with alot of tourism for example Sigulda,Liepaja, and controversialy Ventspils. If you are in Sigulda another good place to go after would be aluksne and take the old train to Gulbene and tour the train museum there and also tour the train depo went there 2 times both times the tour gide was very fun liked to make jokes and overall a good experience.
had a friend playing hockey in the states and he had a latvian guy on the team and me and him ended up getting really close, low key was cheering for latvia in the semis but he is still absolutely over the moon with the bronze. He grew up playing at home so he knew a ton of the team and even got to facetime them for beers and cigars😂 got to see firsthand how much that meant to them and it’s so fucking cool
I loved seeing how happy these guys were man what a moment
Finally my fav hockey channel does a video on this! So proud to be Latvian! ♥️🤍♥️
Germany also got its first medal in a looong time and it's our first silver 🥈. So pretty cool to see latvia and us having such a great world cup. And yeah, honor where its due . It's still canada's sport.
Hate to see the US lose, but the pure joy from Latvia is awesome. Love your content, and your continuous highlighting the whole hockey landscape.
I thought you guys had the tourney wrapped up. Was not expecting anything from Canada and still don't know how we managed it When you lost to Germany i thought to myself, wouldn't be cool for Ge3rman Latvian final. You would probably kick us bad in the bronze game
I'm so proud of the German team. Here in Germany, Hockey is fairly small, but everyone I know who loves it just lost it when we made it to the finals. Congrats, Canada, you were the better team, but boy does that silver look good on the guys! Also, go Latvia!
They were at the same level for long enough so that the win would be fair earned for both teams!
DEL is a good league. German hockey is solid.and getting better all the time. my cousin played for Landshut and Munich and my friend played for Mannheim after they left the NHL.
Germany played a good game against Canada in the gold medal game. Had me a bit worried for awhile. 😂
@@my3dviews Hell yeah. First two thirds were a nailbiter. Final third- monster effort by Canada. Just hats off.
@@DampfGecko Ya, the third period, Canada played very well.
Still a good tournament for Germany. Nothing wrong with silver, in a tournament with that many good teams. Was expecting Sweden, Finland or U.S.A. to face Canada for gold. Congrats to Germany. :-)
This was incredible! It was like a dream. I'm so proud for Latvia! They are our heroes! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻
You missed a point that Latvia nearly didn't qualify for quarter finals, having lost to Slovakia and being even on points with them meant that if Latvia doesn't gain a point against undefeated Switzerland they do not qualify. They played their hearts out that game against Swiss. That game was just as noteworthy as the win against Swedes.
It is really nice to see that excitement from the Latvian team and fans! Congratulations on the medal!
i've rewatched the moment of latvia beating usa in ot so many times, yet i still tear up from how proud i am of my country every time ;DD
The title is honestly incredible
Incredible
@@lagoonproductionhouse4237 honestly
This comment is honestly incredible
@@otmgi3865 this reply to a comment is honestly incredible
2:46 - "There are countries like Latvia where hockey is the most popular sport"
I recently learned that this is the case in three countries: Canada, Latvia and Finland.
It’s also most popular sport in Czechia, Slovakia and Belarus
@@zikky6I think they prefer soccer.
Dude Kaspars Daugavinš used to play for the Bruins! He was a decent journeyman defenseman for the NHL. Kristers Gudlevskis (goalie) used to be third string for the Lightning. He also stopped like 53 shots vs team Canada one time.
Daugaviņš defenseman???!
@@Dominators777 my bad! Meant forward
This is the greatest latvia bronze metal celebration of All Time
So cool for Latvia. Must have been so electric to there in person. These are some of the best stories in sports
To be fair, the Latvians keep calling the bronze medal "our little gold"
You love to see it. This is so awesome. GG, Latvia!
Wish you have included their game vs Switzerland on last day of groupstage where they had to get atleast OT to make it to quaters over Slovakia and in the end they won it and got themselves 3rd over us (czechia) That game was incredible heroics from them.
As a Canadian I wish we would've gotten a Holiday.
If you had won the FIFA World cup I'm sure you would have had one :) even though Canada has way more professional soccer players than Latvia has pro hockey players...
@@tomblade Absolutely 0 chance we get a day off if we win at soccer 😂
LETS GOOOO LATVIA!!!
Im from Latvia and yes everyone went nuts after that OT goal. 😃
Found your channel when I started watching NHL highlights regularly this season. So glad you covered this because this is a huge thing for us. I remember first seeing H. Vitolins as a kid when I first started watching the world championship. Now seeing him as a coach who finally brings our guys to medals is tremendous. Also as others have said considering that there are 80x to 100x times more hockey rinks and also registered players in USA than in Latvia it's not a small feat. But here's the thing that I think all these videos missed... If Golden Knights takes the cup then Teddy Blueger will become the second latvian to win the cup after Sandis Ozolins. So there will be another celebration. Cheers!
I was waiting for you to talk about this ☺️☺️
As a Latvian this was remarkable!!!!
Big congrats to Latvia 👍
No parade for Canada? Well I guess when you win the tournament in 5 out of 8 years its not quite as special as getting your country's first ever medal. Latvia was always one of those under dog teams I cheered for. I'm so happy to see them get a medal this year, maybe their junior team will also get a medal in this years tournament.
It's because this tournament unfortunately isn't as popular here. I wish it was, though.
They only won four out of eight years, not five.
i wanted latvia to win the gold
we all did but Canada was better at being dirty diver.
We are still celebrating
I am proud of the German team. the first medal in this competition in 70 years.
GG to Latvia. You deserve it, enjoy that medal.
-An American
i was at the welcoming and the trains going into riga were packed i wish i could find a video of what it was like. In the capital it was very crowded my moms colleages went with us so we were there about 30 of us. it was hard to stand in the sun so we in a peacefull rugby way got out of the crowd into shade and moved to a corner of the street where we could see the bus arive and wave at them but sadly they were in a standard public bus. we went to stand on a hill and we shouldve brought binoculars but we didnt and we couldnt see anyone on the stage but we definetly heard the crowd and the people talking in the microphone. Personaly i loved it even if i never met them or saw them. But the unity was there and the atmosfere was amazing with everyone united and happy which our country in the past years has been kind of lacking in public events.
sorry for the long text😅
In short it was a very cool atmosfere where everyone was united and I personaly liked it.
Wow a day off! I wish Canada had won bronze!
you just need to win a bronze at the FIFA world cup and you'll have one :D
I‘m always a bit sad to see that the German success is almost never mentioned because they lost their last game :(
I'm from Latvia but live in Germany now, so I'm happy for both teams. A great achievement for both of them. But I wish it was gold for Germany :)
It's the curse of the silver medal
Germany had a very good tournament and a good game against Canada in the gold medal game. Came close. Nothing wrong with winning silver in a tournament with that many good teams.
There were so many people squished in one place that the entire city centre lost communications. No internet, no phone calls or messages.
Way to go Latvia!!!!!!!
silovs is a beast. now having some context of how massive this was, no wonder silovs is ice cold. He had his entire country behind him; the Vancouver playoffs is nothing compared to the weight of that tournament for silovs tbh.
I want a holiday😭😭😭 after the Canadiens got there first medal, we didn't get a holiday. Congrats too latvia tho
"first medal"? You mean in 1920? LOL
They won the gold 28 times. Not to mention all the silver and bronzes. We would get a holiday almost every year, if that was the case.
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Hey eck i hope you and the team are having an amazing day today. Love u guys
Fantastic to see, and great for the development of the sport
As A die hard Canadian Hockey fan, Im so happy for LAtvia and Germany finishing 2 and 3, I hope Hockey grows more and more to these countries.
Thank you for your videos @Eck, as they remind me, as someone who watches from a Canadian viewpoint, that there are countries like USA where hockey is popular ;)
Had no idea you also did hockey content. Amazing stuff. Proud of my country Latvia :D
That’s sweet I wish we got a day off of work when our team wins a medal
As a Canadian/Swede, I'm kinda sad but kinda happy
As a Canadian, I definitely jumped on the Latvia bandwagon... except for when they played Canada lol
Im a Latvian. We are small, but bound. We love emotions. Our hearts are open. Sometimes this is not good, but this is life :)
Those celes remind me of Vancouver 2010 when the Men's and Women's teams both came up golden. Probably the proudest moments I've ever been as a Canadian.
Latvia have always been there but were never good enough to make a splash. Well, they delivered big time in this one.
Crazy. Latvia rocks 💪 Very competitive games.
As a Canadian I wish Latvia won the tournament cuz we don’t think of it as big deal but if they had 50,000 person celebration for a bronze medal imagine if they won
I'd probably cry, laugh, drink, and lose my mind for a week. We love our country.
I hope our Parliament would give us a whole week off 😂
In europe the WC is pretty much like your stanley cup playoffs in NA. To europeans its the pinnacle of the hockey season, great event to end it all on. In Europe we actually plan our leagues to fit in with IIHF schedule, kinda wish NHL did that one day. would be crazy to see the line ups. ofc people follow alot of NHL, but its hard to really get invested into a team thats on a different continent, compared to your home country. if i had to quess why its not as popular in NA its probably because europeans generally can be just way more patriotic towards their own country. expecially us finns.
Well done Latvia 👏👏👏.
Awesome to see the country get behind the hockey team like that. This tournament isn't what it could be , but it's still good hockey to watch. Germany has a good development team too, watch out for them on the international stage in a few years.
Great seeing the game grow.
2 000 000 country win 350 000 000...this is amazing...Latvia is third on the WORLD...unbelievable
Uz priekšu latvieši!🇱🇻
Par Mūsu LIELO, MĪĻO, STIPRO LATVIJU 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻 💕💪 🔥
Latvia, amazing
Way to go Latvia! Great to see a team/country that hasn't won a medal fight so hard to get the bronze. Well p-layed, well won, well deserved. Will we see them back next year??? 🤞Maybe for a silver???🤔
The break is actually till Saturday not Sunday 😊
that scared me lol i was worried i got the dates wrong and almost had to cancel plans 😂
@@automaticwriting6972 lol you're welcome
I triple checked myself 🤔
I had alot of fun with random Latvians in Tampere, we toured clubs until the morning :D
With the NHL taking a massive break mid-playoffs, it's nice to see something good coming out of hockey. Happy for Canada, but honestly it's more exciting to see Latvia win their first medal and be so hyped about it. As for the playoffs... what is the NHL thinking? Many of us have already lost interest with the final teams not really being teams that many people follow (LVGK are somewhat an exception to this, growing a large fanbase fairly quickly), and they throw in extra days between the finals in a sport that by no means should be played this deep into June? Doesn't seem like a good move if they want to keep people engaged.
There is a game today. The last one was only five days ago. Had both semi-finals gone seven the break would have been shorter. Probably only three days, which is not that much.
Best ever 🇱🇻🇱🇻
The is inspirational the was an amazing upset the is amazing
I hope the tournament brings more attention to Michael Carcone, who absolutely deserves a shot at being on an NHL roster. He led the AHL in points, was good in his sparse NHL appearances including drastically reducing his penalties (the one major flaw in his AHL stats), and is a UFA this offseason. Not to mention the hunger he’ll undoubtedly have to prove himself at the NHL level. Unlikely he’ll ever see this, but if he somehow does… Mike, best of luck to you man, I’m rooting for you!
god tier title
You love to see it
Sandis Ozolinsh I think is the best Latvian player
Daugavins Iserlohn legend
I wish there were more nhl players competing but i understand that they probably want a break/dont want to risk injury
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“Playoffs are back saturday” dont miss it boyz
Unrelated but we need those ref cams in the NHL as well as having them do more camera shots from cameramen that go on the ice for cellys like they did for the juniors and this tournament.
i love me some good underdog story!
sorry but you said the nhl playoffs were on break until sunday...is game 1 not tonight??
Wow that is a great story. Just goes to show you Canadians are just used to winning. I'm not a stats guy buy honestly surprised this is latvias first ever medal. I thought they would've had a bronze at some point.
reminder latvia has a population of 1.8 million , toronto has more people than the entire country of latvia
Latvia on top. #nopoidiumforcanada
“The”?
11 months later, the two goalies in the Latvia vs US game are Canuck teammates hoping to win a series.
Shutout baby!
The?
oh my god no way
cup final starts Saturday
Looks more than 50k
the game is saturday not sunday
Great game, good for Latvia, and good for international hockey.
i dont think im a band wagon cause im latvian lol i was there with the 50000 people
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Silos was elected new Minister of Defence😂