Slovakia claimed a 3-2 shoot-out victory over the United States on Wednesday to reach the Olympic men’s ice hockey semi-finals at the Beijing Games. Captain Marek Hrivik got the 2-2 equalizer with 44 seconds left in the third period, there were no goals in overtime, and Peter Cehlarik had the winner in the shoot-out. It was the second straight Olympic quarter-final exit in a shoot-out for the US team which like the others were without NHL players. In 2018 they lost against the Czech Republic. The other quarter-finals later Wednesday are Russian Olympic Committee v Denmark, Finland v Switzerlan…