Quartet of Team USA hockey stars crash 'Heated Rivalry' actor's SNL monologue, joke about Trump invite

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• What league is that?
• The NHL?Storrie: The HBO. It has been less than a week since the end of the Olympics, in which the men's team beat Canada for their first gold medal since the Miracle on Ice in 1980 and the women's team also beat Canada for their second gold medal in three olympiads.
• It is the first double hockey gold in U. S.
• history. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSuch periods are usually spent basking in patriotic glory — which has definitely still happened — though the two teams have also found themselves facing some tension after the men laughed at a joke from President Donald Trump about being impeached if he didn't invite the women to the White House. Both of the Hughes brothers expressed their respect for the women's team in a subsequent interview Monday, while Knight called the joke "distasteful" but said she just wanted to move on. The two sides responded to that saga via their own joke, with Knight quipping “It was gonna be just us, but we thought we’d invite the guys, too.”“Yeah, we thought we’d give them a little moment to shine,” Keller said in response. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAll four players had to fit the show into a busy schedule, as both the NHL and PWHL quickly resumed play this week.
• Both Keller and Jack Hughes actually played games earlier Saturday — Keller in Ottawa and Hughes in St.