Happy Valentine’s Day from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games …

The U.S. had a morning skate today at 9:45 a.m. at Kwangdong Hockey Centre in preparation for its first game of the Olympic tournament tonight against Slovenia, which has an unusually late start time of 9:10 p.m. Today’s practice and tonight’s game is the only time the team will play or practice at Kwangdong, which is largely home for the women’s ice hockey tournament.

After the morning skate, the team spent the day resting and fueling at the Athlete’s Village. For the preliminary round, Team USA is in Group B with Slovakia, Slovenia and the Olympic Athletes from Russia.

The U.S. arrived at the rink at 6:20 p.m. and at faceoff more than 100 family and friends were on hand to cheer on Team USA, along with many other U.S. fans. Unfortunately for Team USA, Slovenia came out a 3-2 winner in overtime.

The team bus arrived back at the Athlete’s Village at 12:35 a.m. and the players had a late-night/early morning dinner before retiring. 

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