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If you get a chance to listen to the @roxyfever episode reviewing the original Mighty Ducks movie, it's a fun ride, along with @CodySevertson. It also reminded me how that movie is indirectly responsible for two of my pet peeves in hockey: (a thread)
1. Before that movie, no one ever called the Canucks' 1982-era jerseys "the Flying V". Why would they? It's as static as any other V. It has nothing to do with ducks or other fowl. But because of that idiotic sequence, people decided "Flying V" was an all-purpose hockey term.
That even spread to the term "the flying skate", which no one had said before either. All because of a movie about Minnesota youth hockey with an avian team name. None of this makes sense for the Vancouver Canucks, folks.
2. The team in the movie, of course, is called the "Ducks". Hence the tongue-in-cheek title declaring this modest bird mighty. The team was not called "The [District 5] Mighty Ducks." Then the movie would have to be called "The Mighty Mighty Ducks."
Naming the NHL team after the movie title, instead of the actual team in the movie (as it ironically now is) is like how Homer thinks Bruce Willis' character is called "Die Hard". This would be like the Toronto Jurassic Parks of the NBA.
I never saw the sequels, but in that vein I don't know how they reconciled the fact that an NHL team supposedly named after them threw a "Mighty" in there, when they didn't consider their lives a Disney Movie and would have no idea where it came from. (/thread)
