The opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy is on Friday, but events start Wednesday. Here are the schedules for Team USA's men's and women's hockey teams. All games to be shown on USA Network, unless otherwise noted, and available on streaming on NBC's Peacock platform and NBCOlympics.com. All times listed are Eastern.

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