ESPN documentary recalls the transition from movie to punch line to the Stanley Cup Final.
“There’s a line – I think it was in the third movie – that they snuck in there where Joshua Jackson said, ”You know, they named a real-life NHL team after us,’ ” said documentary co-producer/director Scott Cikowski in a phone conversation this week.
The documentary includes footage of the introductory press conference in March of 1993, at which Eisner, newly-installed NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and then-Kings’ owner Bruce McNall blew duck calls on stage. Eisner then confirmed that the team name would indeed be the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, shrugging as he said, “It’s Disney. What can I do?”
Ah, but even with the horror at the time from the hockey establishment directed at the, uh, goofy name and the scowling duck logo, by Christmas of 1993 the Anaheim club had sold an estimated 80 percent of all NHL-licensed merchandise throughout North America, helped no doubt by said merch being available in Disney stores and theme parks as well as more traditional outlets.
On Jan. 8, after a 1-0 loss to Edmonton, the Ducks were 15-16-7-3, in the then-convoluted NHL standings format, with seven ties and three overtime losses, and were in third place in the Pacific Division. From there, they were 25-11-2-10 and, with 95 points, finished second in the division to Dallas.
“I don’t think we felt like we probably had the team to go all the way to the Final,” Giguere said. “But I think we felt we could be competitive, and I think, really, like when we were facing Detroit, if we’re being honest, I think all we wanted was an experience.” Flash forward two years later. Coming out of the 2004-05 lockout, Scott Niedermayer signed with the Ducks – now owned by the Samueli family – as a free agent. Part of his reasoning was a desire to play with Rob. Their mom, Carol, acknowledged when I talked to her in September of 2005 that she’d openly rooted for Rob and the Ducks in that ’03 Final, reasoning that Scott had already won twice. Scott’s response: “It made perfectly good sense to me.
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