The Nashville Predators have tried to make the best of an awkward situation — a bit of a PR mess, honestly — by going with the flow after a Saturday Night Live skit poked fun at their team name.
In the skit, three hockey players did charity commercials, one from the Los Angeles Kings, one from the New York Rangers and one from the Predators. Unfortunately, the play on words with the Predators’ name made the hockey player – played by Myles Teller – extremely uncomfortable.
once a predator, always a predator pic.twitter.com/tEbSNJiw3O
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 2, 2025
The Predators have responded after the skit and gotten some mainstream attention: “Wait, is this f-game about us?” trying to make the most of the sketch and taking the opportunity to share their own charity link. “While you’re here, learn more and donate to help the… @PredsFoundation work in Nashville and Middle Tennessee!,” they wrote.
One fan wrote: “There’s no such thing as bad PR…” (really? :). The reaction was due to the sketch focusing on how the player kept being asked to say lines that made him look like a child predator. One player said, “I may be a king on the ice, but I’m also a king in the community.” The other player said, “And I’m a Ranger in my community.” When it reached the Preds player, his line read: “And I am a predator in my community.” Reluctantly, he added, “When you see this face, you just know there’s a predator in the community.”
Other lines included him going to Thailand where he volunteered at hospitals to make sick kids feel touched, and his name was actually “Chase Kid, Right Predator.”
At one point he asked if he should say the lines he was given, noting, “You hear what it sounds like, right?” The directors didn’t see the connection, which led them to suggest he was a diva. At one point, the directors added a child to the scene, and his lines were, “This is the predator that changed the course of my life forever.”
Fans are reacting to the sketch
Some fans, while in bad taste, understood that this was a joke. Others were bothered by the connection, knowing it wasn’t a great look for the franchise. It could be one of the reasons why the organization, when actually putting pressure on community initiatives, doesn’t use the word “predators.”
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