Staff USA hockey stars Hilary Knight and Megan Keller reunited with males’s staff members Jack and Quinn Hughes on Saturday Night time Stay to poke enjoyable at the ladies’s feud with President Donald Trump.
“It was going to be simply (me and Megan) however we thought we’d invite the fellows too,” Knight advised SNL visitor host and Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie on Saturday, February 28, to loud applause.
Storrie — who performs Russian hockey star Ilya Rozanov on Heated Rivalry — was first joined on stage by the Hughes brothers after praising the “superb gamers’ from Staff USA hockey in the course of the Milan and Cortina Winter Olympic Video games.
“I don’t assume I pulled it off,” he mentioned of his portrayal of a hockey star.
President Donald Trump made reference to the U.S. girls’s hockey staff throughout his 2026 State of the Union deal with after they declined the White Home’s invitation. Whereas Trump, 79, was discussing how a lot the US has been “successful” throughout his Tuesday, February 24, speech, he introduced out the Staff USA’s males’s hockey staff out (…)
Quinn and Jack — the latter of whom was nonetheless sporting a toothless grin after an harm within the gold medal sport — interrupted Storrie, 26, to guarantee him he did a “nice” job on Heated Rivalry.
“We’ve been so busy enjoying that we haven’t had time to see your present but,” Jack, 24, admitted, with Quinn, 26, chiming in: “It’s about hockey, proper?”
Storrie waited a beat earlier than answering: “Form of.”
The Heated Rivalry actor joked that his character Ilya could have “metaphorically” had his enamel knocked out like Jack, although seemingly for various causes. Knight, 36, and Keller, 29, then confirmed as much as guarantee Storrie that they’d “seen your present.”
Knight obtained her joke in about President Trump’s snub earlier than Keller quipped that she wished to provide the boys “a little bit second to shine” by popping out first on SNL.
“It’s essential,” Storrie agreed. “My present speaks to people who find themselves not at all times represented in hockey so that is nice to have precise hockey legends right here tonight.”
Staff USA hockey stars be part of Connor Storrie on “Saturday Night time Stay”
Courtesy SNL/XJack identified that it had been 46 years for the reason that USA Hockey males’s staff received a gold medal on the Winter Olympics.
“And the final time we did that was two complete Olympics in the past,” Knight added to an enormous cheer from the studio viewers.
“Good burn,” Jack admitted. “These gold medals aren’t only for us. They’re for all hockey followers.”
It has been an eventful week for the women and men of USA Hockey. On Sunday, February 22, the Hughes brothers took house a gold medal after an additional time victory in opposition to Staff Canada on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.
The staff’s win was nearly instantly shrouded in controversy when FBI director Kash Patel joined the boys of their locker room to rejoice the medal win. President Trump known as to congratulate the boys and made a crack in regards to the Staff USA girls’s hockey gamers, who additionally received a gold medal in Milan and Cortina.
After inviting the boys to go to the White Home and attend his State of the Union speech, Trump quipped, “We have now medals for you guys. I have to inform you, we‘re going to need to convey the ladies’s staff. (If I don’t invite them) I do imagine I in all probability can be impeached.”
A number of of the boys’s gamers have been seen laughing at Trump’s joke. Quinn later denied that there was any stress between the women and men’s groups.
Quinn Hughes, Connor Storrie and Jack Hughes on “Saturday Night time Stay”
Courtesy NBC/X“I’m glad you talked about the ladies’s staff once more,” Quinn advised Good Morning America on Tuesday. “We’re extraordinarily completely satisfied for them. There’s loads occurring on social media proper now surrounding our staff and (the ladies’s staff).”
He went on, “Within the final couple summers, we did numerous coaching with them and obtained to know (them) rather well.”
His brother Jack reiterated his and Quinn’s assist for the ladies’s staff throughout a press convention on Wednesday, February 25.
“We have now a lot respect for the ladies’s staff,” Jack mentioned. “They’ve a lot respect for us. We’re all simply proud Individuals. We’re completely satisfied that we each swept the Olympics.”
Jack and Quinn’s mom Ellen Hughes — who’s a advisor for USA Hockey — subsequently downplayed the political significance of the boys’s staff partying with Patel and attending the State of the Union speech
“I feel on the finish of the day, it’s simply in regards to the nation and the second that these gamers, each the women and men, can convey a lot unity to a bunch and to a rustic,” Ellen, 56, advised Immediately on Tuesday. “Those that cheered on that don’t watch hockey, people who have politics on one aspect or on the opposite aspect. And that’s all each the boys’s staff and the ladies’s staff care about.”
Ellen argued that there’s a camaraderie between the women and men’s hockey groups that transcends any potential political divide.
“For those who might see what we see from the within and the women and men sharing, , dorm rooms and halls and flex flooring and the camaraderie and the synergy, and the way in which the ladies cheered on the boys and the way in which the boys cheered on the ladies,” she insisted. “That’s what it’s all about.”
She added, “The opposite issues, they can not management. They care about humanity. They care about unity and so they care in regards to the nation. I hope all people simply understands what we did within the second, each the women and men to convey this nation collectively and let all people cheer in the identical route.”
Because the Staff USA males’s hockey staff stays embroiled in controversy, one apparently disgruntled fan has left a defaced Quinn Hughes jersey on the Hockey Corridor of Fame. The jersey, whose picture is making the rounds through X, was from Hughes’ days with the Vancouver Canucks. It’s ripped down the center with vulgar phrases written (…)
Jack and Quinn have been among the many Staff USA males’s hockey gamers to go to the White Home and attend Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Throughout his remarks, Trump introduced out the boys’s staff and credited them for making “all the nation proud.” (Trump additionally talked about the ladies’s gold medal victory and mentioned they might “quickly be coming to the White Home.”)
The following day, Knight tackled the controversy over Trump’s preliminary snub throughout a press convention, calling his joke “distasteful and unlucky.”
“I feel, simply the way in which girls are represented, it’s a fantastic educating level to essentially shine mild on how girls must be championed for his or her superb feats,” she advised reporters. “And now I form of have to sit down, or anyone has to sit down in entrance of you and clarify another person’s conduct. It’s not my duty.”
Saturday Night time Stay continues on NBC March 7 at 11.30 p.m. ET with host Ryan Gosling and musical friends Gorillaz.