As a rookie for Dynamo Riga in his native Latvia in the late 1980s, he helped his squad make a surprise run to the Soviet League final. In the 1994 NHL playoffs, Irbe’s San Jose Sharks ...

Goalies: Irbe played parts of six seasons with the ... 908 save percentage. The Latvian won 92 games during his time with the Hurricanes, the second-highest total since 2000 on the team behind ...

Seeing six seasons with the Hurricanes from 1998 to 2004, Irbe sits second to only Ward in games played (309) and wins (130) with the franchise. The Latvian-born netminder was dominant during the ...

Arguably the best Latvian hockey player of all-time (is it really an argument?), Arturs Irbe was still a stud towards the end of his NHL career. That was highlighted by the 77 games he played for ...

A ship carrying parts of a mechanised infantry battalion arrived early on Saturday in the port of Riga, the Latvian capital, escorted by the Swedish air force and units from the Swedish and ...

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Deutsche Lufthansa AG will buy a 10% stake in Latvian flag carrier AirBaltic AS as the German carrier group continues its consolidation push in Europe. Lufthansa’s €14 million investment will ...

Nacionālā hokeja līga (NHL) sākusi godināt čempionāta klubu labākos spēlētājus aizvadītajos 25 gados, un latvietis Artūrs Irbe iekļauts Karolīnas "Hurricanes" otrajā simboliskajā izlasē. NHL veido ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...