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Hughes and his brother Quinn Hughes<\/a>, a defenseman for the Minnesota Wild, appeared with U.S. women’s team captain Hillary Knight when they were on with Fallon, and the three were joined on SNL by Megan Keller, who scored the gold-medal winning goal in overtime, also against Canada. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it’s been great,” Hughes said. “Me and Quinn have done some pretty cool things and got to share it with Hillary, Megan and obviously me and Aerin do this now. So, just pretty cool. Both teams getting recognized and some really cool things. And special opportunities we’ve had and I’m sure there’s a bunch of other things coming through the pipeline down the years.”<\/p>\n

Hughes said he played baseball growing up, and also practiced his first pitch last week when the Devils were in Dallas to play the Stars. His brother Luke Hughes<\/a>, a\u00a0defenseman for the Devils, and his father Jim, were also on hand Friday.<\/p>\n

Hughes said on Friday he got to talk with Yankees superstar Aaron Judge, who was the captain of Team USA for the World Baseball Classic. He also said he’s a Yankees fan and goes to games in the offseason.<\/p>\n

Frankel said she got to catch up with Yankees starting pitcher Cam Schlittler, who is a fellow alum of Northeastern University.<\/p>\n

“It was just fun being in the locker room,” Hughes said. “We’re in the dugout, and then we go under, and my buddies are throwing me batting practice. Just fun. I could hang in the clubhouse all day. Those guys are good guys, so that was fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hughes and his brother Quinn Hughes, a defenseman for the Minnesota Wild, appeared with U.S. women’s team captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342902291984378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}