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PyeongChang Olympic hockey schedule announced

The U.S. men’s hockey team will open Olympic play against Slovenia on Feb. 14 at 7:10 a.m. ET.

The U.S. women start up against Finland on Feb. 11, two days after the PyeongChang Winter Games Opening Ceremony.

The IIHF released the men’s and women’s Olympic hockey schedules Monday. The groups were previously announced.

The U.S. men — without NHL players for the first time since 1994 — are in the same group as in Sochi with Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Russia is seen as the favorite given it will pick its team from its domestic league, the KHL, widely viewed as the second-best league in the world behind the NHL.