{"id":589978,"date":"2026-02-14T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/589978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:28:11","slug":"olympics-bruins-prospect-has-breakout-game-as-latvia-stuns-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/589978\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: Bruins prospect has breakout game as Latvia stuns Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol id=\"articleLabel__list\" class=\"articleLabel__list\">\n<li id=\"articleLabel__listItem\" class=\"articleLabel__listItem\"><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/\" title=\"Navigate to Bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"dateline\">\n<li class=\"dateline__published\">Published: Feb. 14, 2026, 9:13 a.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Milan Cortina Olympics Ice Hockey\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FUQTUWLGAND2JLUHVWRF27IPK4.jpg\"  \/>Latvia&#8217;s Dans Locmelis (11) celebrates after scoring a goal against Germany during the first period of a men&#8217;s ice hockey preliminary round match at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E54ONB5UBFF6RJ2CGFJ6R7SKZA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2026\/01\/bruins-rising-prospect-named-to-latvias-olympic-roster.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2026\/01\/bruins-rising-prospect-named-to-latvias-olympic-roster.html\">Dans Locmelis\u2019<\/a> breakout day helped give Latvia a huge win in its second game of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GSDBBOQCSJCXRJGQRGX4RUFVZU\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/\">Bruins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/09\/fast-rising-bruins-prospect-could-make-himself-hard-to-cut-in-camp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/09\/fast-rising-bruins-prospect-could-make-himself-hard-to-cut-in-camp.html\">prospect<\/a>, who starred at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/04\/bruins-sign-draft-pick-from-umass.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/04\/bruins-sign-draft-pick-from-umass.html\">UMass<\/a> before turning pro, had two goals as Latvia surprised Germany, 4-3, on Saturday in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LTRW5CTVVZBJ7BXVOCGBBBRYQ4\">Locmelis scored two goals on the power play against a German team that features NHL stars Leon Draisaitl and Tim Stultzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7EOGCW6KTNDUVCNHBS4MOS27MA\">Locmelis, 21, who is in his first full professional season, had 12 goals and nine assists for 21 points in 30 games for the Providence Bruins before the Olympics <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B5DUXRVEC5EAPHVJDKGACG6US4\">The fourth round pick has been a regular for Latvia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/05\/bruins-rising-prospect-was-confused-by-praise-from-nhl-legend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/05\/bruins-rising-prospect-was-confused-by-praise-from-nhl-legend.html\">in the World Championships<\/a> in 2023, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Vautour has covered sports professionally in Massachusetts since 1996 and has been a columnist at MassLive since 2018.<br \/>\nCovered: Super Bowl, World Series, NBA and Stanley Cup finals.<br \/>\nLoves: the Elam&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruins Published: Feb. 14, 2026, 9:13 a.m. Latvia&#8217;s Dans Locmelis (11) celebrates after scoring a goal against Germany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":589979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[224667,255162,2879,228653,255163,293,44831,3777,255164,62,67,132,68,255165,75618,247509,255166],"class_list":["post-589978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-events","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2026","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-winter-games","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-xxv-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116070403624376269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}