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re: D2: Mighty Ducks gripe
Posted on 3/3/24 at 2:15 pm to CocomoLSU
Posted on 3/3/24 at 2:15 pm to CocomoLSU
I like over analyzing movies and this is a good one to do it with. Let me preface this by saying that I loved D2 as a kid.
How do the Ducks go from being the worst team in the Minneapolis juniors to being the overwhelming majority of the junior national team. Were any of the Hawks even considered? I bet there were some pissed off travel hockey parents.
Banks is obviously the best player and heart of the team. Charlie couldn't hit a slapshot 2 years before. Banks constantly gets crapped on by Bombay.
Do they even play hockey in Iceland? I just thought they went out in the woods and chanted while avoiding volcanos.
Bombay showing up late for an elimination game should have gotten him fired on the spot.
Do LA celebrities really give a shite about junior world games hockey?
Letting Keenan on the team is ridiculous. Hey coach I found this kid on the street playing roller hockey and he hits the knuckle puck. Cool get him a uniform. Could this guy even skate?
So much ridiculous crap going on all through the movie.
But again I still love it
How do the Ducks go from being the worst team in the Minneapolis juniors to being the overwhelming majority of the junior national team. Were any of the Hawks even considered? I bet there were some pissed off travel hockey parents.
Banks is obviously the best player and heart of the team. Charlie couldn't hit a slapshot 2 years before. Banks constantly gets crapped on by Bombay.
Do they even play hockey in Iceland? I just thought they went out in the woods and chanted while avoiding volcanos.
Bombay showing up late for an elimination game should have gotten him fired on the spot.
Do LA celebrities really give a shite about junior world games hockey?
Letting Keenan on the team is ridiculous. Hey coach I found this kid on the street playing roller hockey and he hits the knuckle puck. Cool get him a uniform. Could this guy even skate?
So much ridiculous crap going on all through the movie.
But again I still love it
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Posted on 3/3/24 at 6:04 pm to CocomoLSU
Fulton Reed or Reed Fulton? This movie started that paradox.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 6:11 pm to CocomoLSU
Also, is this the one where he goes out with a hottie and he is supposedly “fraternizing with the enemy”
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:14 pm to Ghost Hog
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Banks is obviously the best player and heart of the team. Charlie couldn't hit a slapshot 2 years before. Banks constantly gets crapped on by Bombay.
Bombay was a jackass who couldn’t evaluate talent and relied on me to bail him out time after time.
See what happened when we got to Eden hall?
Made varsity as a freshman while all the others were still acting like they were still on a pee wee squad
Posted on 3/4/24 at 8:13 pm to CocomoLSU
Bama refs
Posted on 3/4/24 at 8:33 pm to alajones
Why is Jesse Hall in D2 but his brother isn't? It isn't enough that Bombay smashed Charlie's mom then bounced, he also is breaking up families by leaving one brother at home while the other chases glory.
Posted on 3/4/24 at 8:41 pm to SCLibertarian
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Why is Jesse Hall in D2 but his brother isn't?
Two white kids threatened to hang him so he left the team.
Posted on 3/4/24 at 8:42 pm to YumYum Sauce
I always justified them raiding Minnesota for the team because that's legit the Capitol of hockey for the US. And our world juniors teams were absolute dog shite back then.
My biggest gripe? The duck calls in this movie sound horrible. Blow a call like that in a blind and the ducks will be laughing at you from two fly ways over.
My biggest gripe? The duck calls in this movie sound horrible. Blow a call like that in a blind and the ducks will be laughing at you from two fly ways over.
Posted on 3/4/24 at 9:52 pm to SammyTiger
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why is half the team from 1 pee wee team in minnesota that barely won their small town championship
I would agree, but calling St. Paul - Minneapolis a small town is a bit of an exaggeration. It has 4 major sports teams and it’s probably one of the biggest hockey cities in the country when it comes to pumping out talent.
There’s 8 players currently in the NHL from that area.
I think it’s more believable that half the team is from that area over some Hispanic kid from Miami being on the team.
This post was edited on 3/4/24 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 3/4/24 at 9:58 pm to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:11 pm to Broski
AirBud rose to prominence in 1997 but any good Team USA Hockey talent scout would have seen AirBud’s athleticism.
Sure, AirBud would have been younger but not in dog years. He was actually the perfect age for Team USA Hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games.
The fact that Gordon Bombay didn’t find AirBud and put some skates on him baffles me to this day. Go find great athletes and teach them great hockey.
Sure, AirBud would have been younger but not in dog years. He was actually the perfect age for Team USA Hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games.
The fact that Gordon Bombay didn’t find AirBud and put some skates on him baffles me to this day. Go find great athletes and teach them great hockey.
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:17 pm to CocomoLSU
I wish they made movies like this for my son like they made movies like this for me in the 90s.
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:57 pm to Byrdybyrd05
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I wish they made movies like this for my son like they made movies like this for me in the 90s.
How great was it to go to a video store on a Friday night and have options like this:
Mighty Ducks
Major Payne
Heavyweights
The Sandlot
Rookie of the Year
Billy Madison
Posted on 3/4/24 at 11:01 pm to Ghost Hog
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Letting Keenan on the team is ridiculous. Hey coach I found this kid on the street playing roller hockey and he hits the knuckle puck. Cool get him a uniform. Could this guy even skate?
How did him and Goldberg swap uniforms without an arena full of people noticing?
Posted on 3/4/24 at 11:28 pm to CocomoLSU
WTF are they doing giving Gunnar, a proud Icelander, a surname like “Stahl”
Most Icelandic men’s last names are composed of their father’s name + son (ie if Gunnar has a son it’d be Gunnarson). There are very few exceptions.
And the guy who played Gunnar also played Scooter in D3.
And apparently there’s a pop photographer who uses the name “Gunnar Stahl”
Most Icelandic men’s last names are composed of their father’s name + son (ie if Gunnar has a son it’d be Gunnarson). There are very few exceptions.
And the guy who played Gunnar also played Scooter in D3.
And apparently there’s a pop photographer who uses the name “Gunnar Stahl”
Posted on 3/4/24 at 11:31 pm to tigerfan84
That 1993-1996 era was the goat for me as a kid
Posted on 3/4/24 at 11:34 pm to Ghost Hog
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Do they even play hockey in Iceland?
The thought process was probably like:
“We need a country to be the opponent/villain.”
“Ok.”
“Yo. Hockey is played on…ice.”
“Hey…Iceland is a land…that is basically all ice.”
“Woah.”
Posted on 3/5/24 at 6:57 am to UnitedFruitCompany
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My biggest gripe? The duck calls in this movie sound horrible. Blow a call like that in a blind and the ducks will be laughing at you from two fly ways over.
I thought it was pretty shitty that those kids just left their jobs in the middle of the day to go skate around and recruit players for the team. Like Averman was literally tearing tickets to let people into the movie theater. Guess someone had to leave concessions to take over his spot when he just bailed on his job responsibilities.
Posted on 3/5/24 at 6:58 am to CocomoLSU
Charlie is fricking selfish. He actually got mad that they couldn’t wear the ducks uniform when representing the USA.
Posted on 3/5/24 at 7:00 am to tigerfan84
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How did him and Goldberg swap uniforms without an arena full of people noticing?
And is that even legal? Seems like you can't wear someone else's jersey just to fool the other team. Maybe there isn't something specifically written in the rules addressing that?
But one of my favorite parts of the movie is how Wolf says "the goalie!!":
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