US women's hockey players crack jokes about men's team on Saturday Night Live after Trump controversy

Players from the men's and women's Olympic gold-medal winning hockey teams appeared unneurotic connected "Saturday Night Live" amid caller governmental controversy. 

The men's and women's players had been publically pitted against each different aft President Donald Trump called the men's squad pursuing their golden medal triumph against Canada to invitation them to the State of The Union, and joked that helium would person to invitation the women excessively oregon he'd beryllium impeached. The gag prompted backlash against the men's squad aft the players laughed successful response, chiefly from American and Canadian liberals. 

Women's players Hilary Knight and Megan Keller were joined by men's players Jack and Quinn Hughes connected SNL, and made airy of the caller controversy. 

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Knight appeared to notation Trump's joke.

"It was going to beryllium conscionable us, but we thought we’d invitation the guys, too," Knight said. 

Knight delivered different punchline aft Quinn Hughes said the past clip the men won golden was 46 years agone astatine the 1980 Lake Placid Games.

Knight followed by saying the women's squad past won golden 2 Olympics ago, astatine the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games.

 Jack Hughes responded, saying, "Nice burn. These golden medals aren’t conscionable for us, they’re for each hockey fans."

"Heated Rivalry" histrion Connor Storrie hosted the episode. 

Several mainstream media outlets penned op-eds condemning the men's squad for laughing astatine the gag and past visiting the White House to observe and be Trump's State of the Union address. 

During an interrogation connected ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" Friday, Hughes opened up astir his respect for the women's squad aft McAfee appeared to notation the contention by joking that Hughes and his teammates "hate" the women players.

"We are hanging retired with them truthful much, the women's team. We were supporting them. Like, we were astatine their games, they were astatine our games," Hughes said. 

Hughes past appeared to code the caller disapproval of his squad for its effect to Trump's joke.

"Like each these radical talking, however galore of them watched their golden medal game? Me and Quinn Hughes were astatine the game. We were astatine the crippled until, like, overtime ended connected the glass, and we were jumping up and down truthful excited for these girls, truthful excited they won," Hughes said.

"And however galore of these radical watched the golden medal game, watched their semifinals game? Like 10 of the 10 of our players went to their crippled successful the round-robin. Like, we supported them truthful much, and we're truthful arrogant of them. We're truthful blessed that they won, and they brought a golden medal backmost and that, you know, I said it, the men's and women's squad some brought golden medals back. So, conscionable unbelievable for USA hockey."

Jack Hughes, who scored the game-winning overtime extremity against Canada to triumph gold, reflected connected his enactment with the subordinate connected the U.S. women's squad who did the aforesaid successful Keller.

"Me and her had a large infinitesimal successful the cafeteria aft her golden medal game. We played Slovakia the adjacent night, and it was similar a precocious game. And we were successful the pasta enactment — maine and Megan. They were conscionable getting acceptable to spell retired again, and I conscionable gave her a monolithic hug, and I said, 'I'm truthful blessed for you. I'm truthful arrogant of you,'" Hughes said.

"A mates nights later, saw her again successful the [cafeteria], and we took a large representation and, uh, she conscionable gave maine a large hug and was truthful pumped for maine arsenic well." 

U.S. women's hockey skipper Hilary Knight said connected Wednesday's variation of ESPN's "SportsCenter" that Trump's "distasteful joke" has "overshadow[ed]" the women's success.

"I thought it was benignant of a distasteful joke, and, unfortunately, that is overshadowing a batch of the success, the occurrence of conscionable women astatine the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having astonishing golden medal feats," Knight said.

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"We're conscionable focusing connected celebrating the women successful our room, the bonzer efforts, and proceed to observe 3 golden medals successful programme past arsenic good arsenic the treble golden for some men's and women's astatine the aforesaid time. And truly not detract from that with a distasteful joke."

Hughes’ parent Ellen, a erstwhile Team USA subordinate and existent subordinate improvement unit member, said the players lone cared astir "bring[ing] truthful overmuch unity to a radical and to a country."

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