[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Looking at this new season, the Mighty Ducks
have been looking strong.
The team is looking fierce.
Let's go.
The Ducks are a powerhouse organization.
Little different than the Ducks of the '90s.
They actually use to quack.
Ha! Adorable.
[MUSIC]
1992, what a year for hockey.
The Flying V!
I was at the game. I remember that play
coming out of nowhere!
I know where I was-- stuck in my dad's car in a snowstorm,
glued to the radio.
ANNOUNCER: Here they come from behind the net,
it's the Flying V!
ALL: Quack, quack.
Quack! Quack! Quack!
[MUSIC]
To understand the Flying V, you have to kind of know
the history behind this team.
Their story began in Minnesota with a group
of new kids on the block, and a reluctant coach, Gordon Bombay.
He was made head coach of the District 5
Pee Wee hockey team, filled with absolute benders.
They went on a long losing streak.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
If they were going to succeed, Bombay had to take
them back to the basics.
[GASPING]
Whoa!
[YELLING]
He definitely had a madness to his method.
I mean, I didn't even know how to skate, and this guy put me
on roller blades in a mall.
[SCREAMING]
Definitely left me with some questions.
No one was covering the Ducks. The odds were against them.
But when you were in the rink watching them play,
everybody was rooting for them.
We were the Duck-Meisters! (LAUGHS)
We, uh, honestly surprised ourselves.
[CRASHING]
We had quite a team.
The Velvet Hammer.
Can I say how much I love Connie?
When she says, "I'm no lady, I'm a Duck"-- ugh!
I just died.
Yeah, I definitely took some guys out in my day.
But seriously, we didn't know anything
about competitive hockey, and then we made the playoffs.
We were on fire, and I'm not just talking about the net
after my slapshot.
[CRASH]
[CHEERING]
Let's just say I wasn't hitting the goal one out of five
anymore.
They made it to the district finals against the Hawks.
My family were all really big fans, isn't that right Alina?
Yes!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Back in the championship, Bomba y--
now on the other side of the ice --
he used to play for Coach Reilly,
and let me tell you, it got pretty nasty.
You could cut the tension between those two
with the blade of a skate.
[BANGING]
LINDA COHN: It was a battle of the coaches--
[CHEERING]
--and this championship game was more than a win --
it determined who was better.
You could feel that tension on the ice, too.
Ducks versus the Hawks, bird versus bird,
and more so, a gentle bird versus an aggressively predator bird.
ANNOUNCER: They dropped the puck and this game's underway, and--
Oh my gosh, that first period was a mess.
It was a hit, after hit, after hit.
I mean, I was feeling like, really defeated.
Let's fly! ALL: Yeah!
[CHEERING] - Come on!
Let's go!
And then it happened-- the goal that changed our game.
[MUSIC FADES]
Ducks stick together, right?
ALL: Yeah!
So let's see it, show me the Flying V.
The Flying V!
BOTH: The Flying V!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNOUNCER: Here they come from behind the net--
This is the point in the story where things get interesting.
The full Ducks squad formed into an inverted V,
with number nine, Jesse Hall, leading at the top,
rushing through the Hawks defense.
The nominally good Hawks watched as our Cinderella team--
they just swept right through the zone.
[CHEERING]
ANNOUNCER: It's the Flying V!
Doesn't get more epic than that.
In the history of hockey, nothing like this
had ever been done.
JOHN BUCCIGROSS: So many theories, so little time.
The only one who really knows the truth behind the Flying V?
Gordon Bombay and his team of Ducks.
ANNOUNCER: Moves down the right side, down in front of the net--
Shot in front, score!
That goal was big, I mean it tied the game
and reminded us that teamwork is everything.
ANNOUNCER: With the score tied, 4-4,
the next goal will decide the championship.
Conway down the middle, he could win the game!
[CRASHING]
Oh, Knights of Columbus, that had to hurt.
So the game is tied, still anyone's to win.
Charlie's penalty shot was really the last opportunity
before a shootout.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
BOTH: He shoots, he scores!
[CHEERING]
Charlie won with Coach Bombay's signature
move, the Triple Deke!
It was unbelievable to see!
After we won, we were all just so stoked.
It was just huge for us.
[CHEERING]
Then they continued that Duck streak two more quacking times.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
It's the first practice of the new season for the
Mighty Ducks' junior division. - I've got to cut you.
I mean at this age if you can be great at hockey, then don't bother.
You've got to make this happen for yourself.
I want you to think about all the other kids
who have been told that they're too small or too slow.
They just want to get out there and play.
Let's start our own team.
Flying V!
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC FADES]