Olympic gold medal winners from the U.S. males’s and ladies’s hockey groups crashed Connor Storrie‘s SNL monologue on Saturday, with the two on the women’s group taking a shot at Donald Trump for his dismissive comment about them.
Storrie, who stars within the hockey-themed Canadian tv sequence Heated Rivalry, was speaking about studying about how to a minimum of seem like he may play the game.
“I am just so thankful for everything this job gives me the chance to do. Like, in two weeks I had the chance to learn how to speak Russian and look like I knew how to play hockey,” Storrie, 26, mentioned. “And then I’m watching the Olympics, and I see these amazing players, and I’m like, ‘I don’t think I pulled it off.’”
Storrie was then joined on stage by Quinn and Jack Hughes. After some allusions by Storrie about how the present, through which two male gamers on rival groups are in a relationship, is “kinda” about hockey, he mentioned he hoped a minimum of some professional gamers have seen it.
Megan Keller and Hilary Knight, every of whom additionally gained gold within the 2018 video games, then entered, and mentioned that they’d.
Knight then commented on the group’s gathering: “It was going to be just us, but we thought we’d invite the guys, too.”
That was a reference to how Trump, in a phone call inviting the boys’s group to the White House after their win, mentioned that “we’re going to have to bring the women’s team.”
Knight later told SportsCenter that Trump’s “distasteful joke” was “overshadowing a lot of the success, the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats.”
Players on the boys’s group had varying reactions.
The U.S. ladies’s group has since declined Trump’s White House invitation.
