Olympic Hockey Bracket: Men's Semi Final Matches, Start Times

The Oympic Hockey Bracket has been decided for Friday's Semi Final Matches.

The start time for the first semi final match featuring USA vs Finland is 12:00 pm PST.

The start time for the second semi final match featuring Canada vs Slovakia is at 6:30 pm PST.

Slovkia beat the 2006 Gold Medalists  Sweden  in a scrappy game, winning  4-3

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The road to the semi finals was not an easy one for any of the four semi finalists  as the Men's Olympic Hockey event is very competitive ,with a lot of strong teams, riddled with NHL Players. 

Canada some say have the toughest road after their loss to Team USA, the Canadians played an extra game, knocking off the Germans and then manhandled the powerful Russians. Finland beat the always tough Czech Republic

Most fans in North American are hoping for a Canada vs USA match for the finals which would be a repeat of the gold medal final game in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Games. Team Canada lost to the USA in a earlier round mainly because of the exceptional goaltending of Ryan Miller, the U.S. goalie. Of course Finland and Slovakia