The victory was particularly sweet coming less than 48 hours after a 1:7 drubbing against Finland. This time however, Latvia played with determination and discipline.
Haralds Egle opened the scoring for Latvia after 8 minutes, and it wasn't until the second period that the USA levelled the scores through Matthew Tkachuk.
Latvia reclaimed the lead in the third period thanks to Denis Smirnovs and then set about defending their lead resolutely. It proved to be the rig...