National Hockey League players it was U.S. will again be playing for their countries when the men's hockey competition hits the ice on February 16.

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Team USA Associate general manager Dave Poile says only five of the players considered for the team had Olympic experience, and only seven of them were even alive when Team USA won its last hockey gold 1980 in Lake Placid,New York.

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