{"id":283271,"date":"2026-05-25T03:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:14:24","slug":"worlds-check-in-vilmanis-helps-lift-latvia-to-win-over-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283271\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Check-In: Vilmanis helps lift Latvia to win over USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helping keep Tkachuk and the United States at bay, Kristers Gudlevskis amassed 45 saves for Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>After recording five points (3G, 2A) in 19 games with the Panthers this season,\u00a0Vilmanis has brought that strong play from his NHL debut to the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Producing at better than a point-per-game clip, the 22-year-old forward is tied for first on Latvia with six points (2G, 4A) at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Latvia jumped ahead of the United States in the standings and now sits fourth in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>USA, which trails Latvia by one point, has two games left in the group stage against Hungary and Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia, meanwhile, has two games remaining against Great Britain and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Only the top four teams from Groups A and B will advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and a full schedule of the World Championship, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#ed8599999d9ed7c2c29a9a9ac3838581c38e8280c29d8c839985889f9ec284838b82c29a829f81898e858c809d8482839e85849d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helping keep Tkachuk and the United States at bay, Kristers Gudlevskis amassed 45 saves for Latvia. After recording&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-283271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}