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Team USA will face Finland on Saturday, Feb. 7, at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena in Milano. Team USA's second preliminary game of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games is scheduled to start at 10:40 a.m. ET and will be televised on USA Network.
The U.S. kept its foot on the gas in the middle stanza, with Joy Dunne and Hayley Scamuura scoring just over a minute apart to widen the gap. There was an instance where it looked like Czechia was going to fight back, as Barbora Jurickova scored on a breakaway after serving a penalty to make it 3-1. However, that was as close as the game got.
Ice hockey will run the entire length of the Olympics, and feature some of the world's best players.
Women's Olympic ice hockey kicked off its preliminary matches on Thursday. Friday, we've got two more. Here's when the matches will happen.
Along with Canada, Team USA is one of just two countries that have won gold in women's ice hockey since the event was added to the Olympics in 1998. The Americans won that inaugural year in Nagano, then endured four straight Canadian victories until 2018, when Team USA struck back with a dramatic overtime win to capture gold in Pyeongchang.
Who are the favorites and underdogs heading into the men's and women's 2026 Olympic ice hockey tournaments?
A women's ice hockey match between defending Olympic champions Canada and bronze medalists Finland was postponed on Thursday, a day after four Finnish players were isolated with stomach flu at the Milan Cortina Games,
With Canada's game versus Finland postponed due to a norovirus outbreak, the U.S. and Czechia opened the Olympic women's hockey tournament.
MILAN (AP) — What do golf carts have to do with hockey at the Milan Cortina Olympics? Turns out, they are essential equipment. The trip from the locker rooms to the ice at the main hockey arena is so long that the heavily padded goaltenders get to ride in style in golf carts while their teammates make the mildly awkward walk in skates.
Team Canada will begin its chase for a gold medal against Team Switzerland in the Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Saturday, February 7.