The true story of the Mighty Ducks is like a movie plot. Fade in. The time is this date in 1992. The Mighty Ducks is released in theaters. Emilio Estevez stars as a trial attorney sentenced to community service and must coach a clumsy team of pee-wee hockey players. The attorney brings the team to a championship and realizes that coaching hockey might be his true calling. Dissolve to the following year, a real-life hockey team, based on the smash-hit movie, is formed by The Walt Disney Company and becomes an expansion team in the National Hockey League, playing at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California. While the non-fictional team continues to score, we cut to 1994 when D2: The Mighty Ducks is released in theaters. Two years fly by and yet another genre of mighty ducks hatches. An animated version of Mighty Ducks premieres on ABC, about a group of superheroes who are also a hockey team and play at the Anaheim Pond. Cut to the following month. D3: The Mighty Ducks is released in theaters. Just as audiences may think the Ducks saga is ending, the puck doesn’t stop there. The Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off animated tale is released direct to video. Slow fade out, then fade in to 2005, when Disney sells the Mighty Ducks hockey team. Fade out, roll end credits.
