{"id":511583,"date":"2026-03-03T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511583\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:24:07","slug":"u-s-hockey-players-knight-hughes-brothers-appear-on-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511583\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. hockey players Knight, Hughes brothers appear on ‘Tonight Show’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Jimmy Fallon made fun of Jack Hughes<\/a> for getting a tooth knocked out before scoring his Olympic-final overtime goal and praised Hilary Knight for winning at her fifth Games as the U.S. gold medal-winning hockey players made another late-night television appearance after returning from Milan.<\/p>\n

Knight, Jack Hughes and brother Quinn Hughes<\/a> shared the stage on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d on Monday night, 48 hours after their memorable cameo alongside women\u2019s golden goal scorer Megan Keller on \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what was more nerve-wracking, playing in the Olympics or going on \u201cSNL,\u201d Knight responded without hesitation: \u201cSNL.\u201d Fallon brought up how Knight told her mother at age 5 she wanted to take part in Olympic hockey one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just dialed like that,\u201d Knight said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even have women\u2019s hockey in the Olympics at the time. I just must have seen it on TV and was like: \u2018That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing. I want to play hockey.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Fallon read a letter Jack Hughes wrote to himself before being selected with the first pick in the 2019 NHL draft that included the lines: \u201cMaybe we all represented the United States at the Olympics. Maybe we won a gold medal or gold medals together. What an honor that would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three players then fist-bumped as the studio audience, including youngest brother Luke Hughes, applauded.<\/p>\n

The Hughes brothers joked about being roommates in the athletes’ village \u2014 and their interaction after Jack got high-sticked in the mouth by Canada’s Sam Bennett in the third period of the gold-medal game.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuinn, he was the first guy closest to me, and I remember him coming up to me at the TV timeout, and he was like: \u2018It\u2019s not that bad. it\u2019s only chipped,’\u201d Jack Hughes said. \u201cThat was like four minutes left in the game, like when we were serious trying to win this thing and he came up and said that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Hughes promised Fallon the gap-toothed smile \u201cwon\u2019t be my thing,\u201d even after the hockey storybook finish of losing a tooth and scoring an Olympic-winning goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the most hockey thing I could even think of ever happening in the world,\u201d Fallon said.<\/p>\n

Fallon also brought up Knight’s storybook time in Milan that included getting engaged to U.S. speedskater Brittany Bowe, who was in attendance. He wondered aloud why she chose to propose on a grate instead of the nearby grass and asked Knight if she worried about dropping the ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost,\u201d Knight said. \u201cI like high-pressure situations, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knight won her second Olympic gold medal at age 36 in what she has said will be her final time on the biggest international stage in sports. She did so playing with a torn medial collateral ligament in one of her knees, something she revealed earlier Monday on \u201cCBS Mornings.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not walking around the best, and I\u2019m missing a few games for the (PWHL\u2019s) Seattle Torrent,\u201d Knight said on CBS. \u201cTo be able to play through injury was definitely a mental sort of gymnastic challenge for myself and also physical, but we\u2019ve got some amazing support staff that did their best to get me out there and perform at my best \u2014 as best as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knight tied the final against Canada with just over two minutes left in regulation. Knight, teammate Kendall Coye Schofield and Canada\u2019s Erin Ambrose were all put on long-term injured reserve by their respective PWHL teams upon returning for the resumption of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Jimmy Fallon made fun of Jack Hughes for getting a tooth knocked out before scoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-511583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}