{"id":628821,"date":"2026-03-03T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:55:17","slug":"hughes-brothers-join-hilary-knight-on-tonight-show-to-talk-olympics-stressful-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628821\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes brothers join Hilary Knight on \u2018Tonight Show\u2019 to talk Olympics, stressful proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Amidst a star-studded lineup that included Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, \u201cBridgerton\u201d actor Luke Thompson and celebrity chef Mario Carbone cooking meatballs and sending a studio audience of 227 people home with jars of tomato sauce, three gold medal-winning hockey players drew lots of laughs and many \u201cawws\u201d on another late-night appearance Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Two nights after taking part in the monologue on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d at 30 Rock\u2019s famous Studio 8H, Jack and Quinn Hughes and Hilary Knight were two floors down in Studio 6B to appear on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\u201d The three athletes, fresh off being part of U.S. teams winning men\u2019s and women\u2019s gold medals, dropped perfectly timed one-liners and touched the crowd with some personal anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>When Fallon asked Knight, a five-time Olympian who forced overtime with the tying goal late in regulation in the gold-medal game, what was more nerve-wracking between playing Olympic hockey or appearing on \u201cSNL,\u201d Knight immediately responded, \u201cUh, SNL,\u201d drawing a huge laugh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NUP_210055_03985-scaled-e1772511810149.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7082758 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NUP_210055_03985-scaled-e1772511810149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1241\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Jack Hughes, Hilary Knight and Quinn Hughes won gold with the U.S. men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams in Milan. (Photo courtesy of Todd Owyoung \/ NBC)<\/p>\n<p>Jack Hughes, a New Jersey Devils forward, had the audience howling when he described the dorm room setup at the Olympics, where he roomed with his older brother, Quinn, a Minnesota Wild defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walked in and the beds were like this far apart from each other,\u201d Jack said, holding his hands a couple feet apart. \u201cAnd then the first thing we did, we were like, \u2018We\u2019ve got to move these beds.\u2019 So we started shifting things around. I didn\u2019t want to roll over and be like this far from Quinn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quinn said, \u201cThere\u2019s a couple nights where I\u2019m rolling around and he\u2019s like, \u2018Dude, you\u2019ve got to stop rolling around.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, he added, they loved it: \u201cI felt like I was a freshman at Michigan again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Hugheses talked about the \u201cmayhem\u201d of the room and how messy Quinn\u2019s side became by the end of the Olympics, Fallon turned his attention to Jack\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7064324\/2026\/02\/22\/jack-hughes-teeth-usa-olympics-hockey-gold-medal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing front teeth<\/a>. He lost them toward the end of regulation in the gold-medal game, then scored the gold medal-clinching goal in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon, a hockey fan who attends many New York Rangers games and has had Henrik Lundqvist on his show three times since 2022, said, \u201cThat is the most hockey thing I could ever think of happening in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack said Quinn came up to him during the final TV timeout and told him, \u201cIt\u2019s not that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fallon said he noticed that Jack hasn\u2019t gotten his teeth repaired yet and maybe he shouldn\u2019t: \u201cI feel like this might be your thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can promise you this won\u2019t be my thing,\u201d Jack said.<\/p>\n<p>In the audience was Knight\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Olympic speedskater Brittany Beau, to whom Knight proposed the morning before the gold-medal game. Fallon showed a picture of Knight proposing and pointed out how gutsy it was for her to pull out the ring over a storm grate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like high-pressure situations, I guess,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think about the grate before hovering over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quinn talked about how cool it was for him and his brother to watch Knight and her teammates win gold, pointing out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7023503\/2026\/02\/07\/olympics-ellen-hughes-usa-womens-hockey-nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">their mother, Ellen, has worked with the team since 2023<\/a>. When Fallon asked where he watched the game, Quinn said it was in a suite at the arena with his brother and fellow Michigan alum Tom Brady. It was the first time they had met him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it was crazy. I don\u2019t know how we got up there,\u201d Quinn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the most pumped out of all of us,\u201d Jack said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a nail-biter, but I think they were the better team and I was happy for them, and no one was happier than Tom,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cHe was jumping up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fallon pointed out that Knight told her mom at age 5 that she would be an Olympian, even though women\u2019s hockey wasn\u2019t an event at the time: \u201cI\u2019m just dialed in like that,\u201d she quipped.<\/p>\n<p>And Fallon read a letter that Jack wrote to himself before he was drafted in 2019, which read in part, \u201cYour brothers made you who you are on and off the ice. I hope that they\u2019ll be able to say you did the same for them, that they had great NHL careers too. Maybe you even suited up with them a couple of times. Maybe we all represented the United States in the Olympics. Maybe we won a gold medal or gold medals together. What an honor that would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of that, New Jersey Devils defenseman Luke Hughes \u2014 the youngest of the three NHL-playing brothers \u2014 was in the audience next to his mom and dad, Jim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s 6-2, so he looks older,\u201d Quinn said.<\/p>\n<p>When Fallon asked Luke if he plans to join Quinn and Jack on the 2030 U.S. Olympic team, he said, \u201cHope so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knight reiterated that this was indeed her final Olympics even though she joked that the French Alps in 2030 are appealing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is definitely my last,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, storybook ending, amazing team to go out with, just an incredible win, double golds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou crushed it,\u201d Fallon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouldn\u2019t have written it better,\u201d Knight agreed.<\/p>\n<p>After the segment ended, Fallon admired Knight\u2019s gold medal during the commercial break as some audience members yelled, \u201cGo USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NUP_210055_03265-scaled-e1772508870374.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7082689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NUP_210055_03265-scaled-e1772508870374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1504\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Jimmy Fallon holds Hilary Knight\u2019s gold medal on Monday. (Photo courtesy of Todd\u00a0Owyoung \/ NBC)<\/p>\n<p>Knight and the Hughes brothers clearly had a blast throughout the process, including meeting Kidman before the show. She boasted during her interview that she got to hold the gold medal and was \u201cso thrilled for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original interview was 11 minutes long. It was trimmed for TV, but the extended version will go up online after the show airs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s obviously a great show, and we\u2019re going to be ourselves on it and just have fun with it,\u201d Jack told The Athletic an hour before the taping. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty cool experience. I know a lot of our family members watch that show, and we\u2019re happy to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Amidst a star-studded lineup that included Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, \u201cBridgerton\u201d actor Luke Thompson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":628822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,246556,3112,2994,293,3777,225024,173,67,132,68,247705],"class_list":{"0":"post-628821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mens-olympic-ice-hockey","10":"tag-minnesota-wild","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-olympics","14":"tag-seattle-torrent","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-womens-olympic-ice-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116164410012329768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}