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The movies revolve around a Twin Cities hockey team, composed of young players that stick together throughout various challenges. Despite its predictable plot and negative reviews by movie critics, the trilogy's commercial success paved the way for the creation of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL team, as well as an unrelated animated series, also called The Mighty Ducks. Twin cities are two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other and may seem to form a single unit, often referred to collectively. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, commonly referred to as the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California. ... The modernized NHL shield logo debuted in 2005, replacing the orange and black shield, which had been used since the leagues inception. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... The Mighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC in the fall of 1996. ...

Basil McRae, Mike Modano, Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille, Chris Chelios, Cam Neely and Paul Kariya have made cameo appearances in the three movies. Basil McRae Basil McRae (born January 5, 1961 in Beaverton, Ontario) played his major junior hockey with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). ... Mike Modano featured on a sports card Michael Thomas Modano, Jr. ... Wayne Gretzky. ... Luc Robitaille playing for the Los Angeles Kings on December 21, 2005 Lucky Luc Robitaille (born February 17, 1966 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey player. ... Christos K. Chelios (born January 25, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. He has earned many awards during his long career, and is considered one of the best Americans to ever play in the NHL. With the retirement of Mark... Cam Neely Cameron Cam Michael Neely (born June 6, 1965, in Comox, British Columbia) played right wing in the National Hockey League from 1983 to 1996. ... Paul Kariya Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (born October 16, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the Nashville Predators. ...

Plot Synopses

A True story

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The Mighty Ducks

After being charged with drunk driving, a lawyer named Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey, a sport he claimed to hate. There, he meets the District 5 peewee hockey team, a team of perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year, and are shut out at every game by at least five goals. The players learn that Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after he failed a shot in the shootout that cost the Hawks a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, the players learn the fundamentals of the game. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the Ducks, after Bombay's employer, Mr. Ducksworth) start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, eventually reaching the finals. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly (Lane Smith), the same coach Bombay played for. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's own protege, Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson). And yes we are real! Emilio Estevez in Repo Man Emilio Estévez (born May 12, 1962 in New York, New York) is an American actor and director. ... Lane Smith, full name Walter Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 - June 13, 2005) was a U.S. character actor. ... Joshua Carter Jackson (born June 11, 1978) is an actor in American television and movies. ...

D2: The Mighty Ducks

Inspired by his own players, Bombay decides to try out in the minor leagues. After a career-ending injury to the knee, he is offered a chance to coach a team representing the United States in the Junior Goodwill Games. For this, he reunites his Ducks and introduces them to five new players from across the country to form Team USA. However, the lure of celebrity becomes a distraction to both Bombay and the players, and reality kicks in when they lose against Team Iceland in an embarrassing defeat. Frustrated, Bombay drives his players even harder, yet Team USA continues to suffer, until they come across a street hockey team who teaches them how to play like "the real Team USA." (Here, a new player emerges, Russ Tyler (Kenan Thompson), who earlier mocked Team USA during its matches). Bombay realizes that the most important thing is to have fun. After a change in attitude, the Ducks redeem themselves by working up the playoffs ladder to once again meet Team Iceland in the finals. This time Team USA proves to be a match for Iceland, but the game ends in a tie, resulting in a shootout, which the Ducks win. The Goodwill Games were an international athletics competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympics of the 1980s. ... Kenan Thompson on Kenan & Kel Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor who starred on Nickelodeons All That from 1995 to 1999. ...

D3: The Mighty Ducks

The movie shifts focus from Bombay to his protége, Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson). Charlie and his teammates are awarded scholarships to Eden Hall Academy (a fictious name from crossing Southwestern suburb Eden Prairie, Cretin-Derham Hall, and the numerous "Academies" in the area), a prestigious Minnesota prep school that Bombay attended. Their arrival is met with hostility from the varsity team (mainly consisting of white players who are members of rich families, whose younger siblings were not accepted to the academy to make room for the Ducks), as well as Bombay's hand-picked successor, coach Ted Orion (Jeffrey Nordling), whose emphasis on defensive two-way hockey irks Charlie. Not wanting to be on a team led by Orion, who he believes to be a washed-up former professional player, Charlie leaves the team, but rejoins as he learns the truth about Orion from Bombay: Orion was once a player for the Minnesota North Stars, but stayed in Minnesota when the North Stars moved to Dallas in order to take care of his paraplegic daughter. Charlie and Orion quickly bonded in time for the JV-Varsity Showdown, and thanks in large part to the work of Charlie, the Ducks win on a shorthanded goal in the dying seconds of the game from unlikely goal scorer Greg Goldberg (who had converted from goalie to defenseman). Joshua Carter Jackson (born June 11, 1978) is an actor in American television and movies. ... Location Location in Hennepin County Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Minnesota Hennepin County founded incorporated 1858 1960s Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens Geographical characteristics Area     City 91. ... Cretin-Derham Hall High School (or CDH, as it is commonly known) is a private, co-educational Catholic high school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ... The Minnesota North Stars were a team in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1993. ... Paraplegia is a condition where the lower half of a patients body is paralyzed and cannot move. ...

Common threads

All three films cast an opposing hockey team that represents the various obstacles to the team. This team mainly consists of large players of a single ethnic or social background, of which the Ducks, a team with smaller players of different races and genders, must overcome. In the end to each movie, the Ducks prevail over them by a single goal.

Many of the goals that the Ducks score are artistic or gimmicky in nature. This is also known as Duck "trickery." One of their gimmicks is the Flying V, which involves all five skaters skating down the ice in much the same manner as a flock of ducks, and the puck being under the control of the player at the head of the V.

Duck Trickery Moves

• Charlie Conway - Triple Deke
• Fulton Reed - Shotgun Slap Shot
• Russ Tyler - knuckle puck

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The Mighty Ducks 4?

Mighty Ducks 4 was announced in 2004. It will supposedly document Charlie Conway as an adult as he coaches a minor hockey team with appearances by Gordon Bombay. The film was originally scheduled for release in 2005, but IMDb no longer lists the project which suggests it's now in development hell. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ... Development hell is media-industry jargon for a movie, television screenplay or computer game (or sometimes just a concept or idea) getting stuck in development and never going into production. ...

Roster

The following is a roster of all the players for the Ducks, along with their jersey numbers, playing positions, and appearances in the three films (marked by XX). Seven of the players appear in all three films (Germaine, Averman, Moreau, Goldberg, Reed, Conway, and Banks). Their coaches are Gordon Bombay (Estevez, D1 and D2) and Ted Orion (Nordling, D3).

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Movie Trivia

• Banks's number was 9 while he was on the Hawks in the first movie as was Bombay's when he played for The Hawks when he was younger.
• Actor Jack White was featured in all three movies, but in two different roles: in the first two movies, he played a referee in the final game featured in each film; in D3, he played the coach of the varsity team.
• Scott Whyte was featured in the latter two movies, also in two different roles: in D2, he played Iceland star Gunner Stahl; in D3, he played the varsity squad's starting goalie.
• Bob Miller, who played himself as the play-by-play announcer for TBS at Junior Goodwill Games in D2, and the announcer for the district championship game in the first film, works as the voice of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings in real life, where he called Wayne Gretzky's breakings of both the all-time NHL goals scored record, and the all-time NHL points record. On November 13, 2000, Miller was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The press box at the Staples Center is named for him.
• In an episode of Dawson's Creek entitled 'Detention', the unfortunate fates of once-famous actors languishing in television obscurity are discussed by the main characters, and Emilio Estevez is mentioned by name. One of the characters, Pacey Witter enthusiastically protests in Estevez's defence by saying: "No way, Emilio Estevez was in those Duck movies, remember?" This remark is largely self-referential since the character Pacey Witter was played by Joshua Jackson -- the very same child actor who starred in The Mighty Ducks trilogy some 5 years previously.
• Kenan Thompson plays Russ Tyler, a child that has an unstoppable 'knucklepuck' in D2. It is so unstoppable that the ducks have to disguise him in goalie gear to get him the puck in the finals of the Jr Goodwill Games. However, the Ducks decide to leave him out of the 5 shooters in the shootout and insert Crocket instead.
• In D3, it is mentioned that Charlie Conway "has been captain of this team since the Pee-wee days." However, Charlie was never the captain. The only mention of this is by Gunner Stahl at the end of D2 when he calls Charlie, "Captain Duck."
• In D3, Charlie is one of the best players on the team. In the first two movies, Charlie is one of the worst players.
• Charlie seems to be the main character in all 3 of the trilogy's movies, yet does not appear on the artwork/poster for any of the movies.
• In D2, the uniforms Team USA comes out wearing in the 3rd period of the championship game were in reality the very uniforms of the professional Anaheim Mighty Ducks. In the summer of 2006, however, the franchise debuted a new logo and set of jerseys.

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External links

• The Mighty Ducks at the Internet Movie Database
• D2: The Mighty Ducks at the Internet Movie Database
• D3: The Mighty Ducks at the Internet Movie Database