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    More than just childhood nostalgia

    Mighty Ducks story slide 1: the Disney movie that became a team - in the 90s Disney made a hockey film for kids, then bought an actual NHL franchise and named it after the movie. — photo 1 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 2: 1992, the movie makes $50 million - but the real number was the kids, a whole generation walking out of the theater with a stick in their hands. — photo 2 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 3: three months later the NHL sells Disney a team for the same $50 million - Eisner called the movie his market research. — photo 3 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 4: eggplant, jade and a goalie mask with a duck's face - nothing in the league had ever looked like this, and that mask was about to become an icon. — photo 4 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 5: opening night October 8 1993 - Disney showed up with a guitar-playing human mascot called The Iceman; the crowd hated him and he never came back. — photo 5 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 6: Paul Kariya, the kid they drafted first - fourth overall in 1993, five-foot-ten in a league full of giants, 989 points in 989 games. — photo 6 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 7: then Teemu came, February 1996 - Kariya, Selanne and Rucchin on one line, and in 1997 the Mighty Ducks made the playoffs for the first time. — photo 7 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 8: spring 2003, the run nobody saw coming - Giguere stopped 63 of 64 in Game 1 and the Mighty Ducks reached the Stanley Cup Final. — photo 8 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 9: they lost Game 7 - twelve days later they drafted Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, the teenagers who would carry everything that came next. — photo 9 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 10: 2005, Disney sells the team - Mighty goes away but the Ducks stay. Selanne said it best: Mighty was Disney's word, Ducks belonged to the fans. — photo 10 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 11: 2007 Anaheim Ducks Stanley Cup - the first ever for a California team, fourteen years after the league laughed at a duck on a jersey. — photo 11 of 12
    Mighty Ducks story slide 12: finally in 2024 the mask comes back - thirty-one years later Anaheim put the duck mask back on the front of the jersey. — photo 12 of 12