Can I skip Prime Pinball, Hunters, and Federation Force?

I'm nearing the end of Metroid 2 (i think at least), and after having doubts of where Super and Fusion were placed in the franchise, I saw I skipped through the whole Prime trilogy.

This wasn't gonna be a problem since I wanted to play the 2d games first and the 3d games after, but I didn't want to miss parts of the story, even if the Prime games aren't mentioned in the 2D games

I have this question because, even if the asterisk in the timeline says they're not a core part of the story, it also says they're canon to the story, so I'm afraid I might miss something if I don't play them