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Wilt Dasney
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PigletIsMyCat
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Being away from a television and a little slow on the uptake... I take it the Ducks won?
Wilt Dasney
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PigletIsMyCat
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Okay, I don't know much about hockey, but wasn't there no Anaheim team before the Mighty Duck movies? Is this a staggering coincidence, or did Disney invent an Anaheim team? Or did the NHL capitalize on the 'success' of the movies?
Wilt Dasney
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From Wikipedia: The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were founded in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company. The team's original name was chosen from the Disney movie The Mighty Ducks, based on a group of misfit kids who turn their losing youth hockey team into a winning team. Disney subsequently made an animated series called Mighty Ducks, featuring a fictional Mighty Ducks of Anaheim team that consisted of anthropomorphized ducks.
haveyoumetmark
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I thought this thread was about power generators at first. I thought to myself: What an obscure topic. :lol:
well you know as well as I living in the Tampa Bay area we do love our power generators as well especially during hurricane season
MissM
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The NHL was doing an expansion. Disney decided to get in on the action. They branded their team with the Mighty Ducks name and image to tie in with their existing movie property.
After a period of stability in the 1980s, the NHL further expanded with nine new franchises in ten years. The San Jose Sharks entered in 1991; a season later the Ottawa Senators would return to the NHL along with the addition of the Tampa Bay Lightning. In 1993, the league added two additional teams, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Florida Panthers. Next came the Nashville Predators in 1998, the Atlanta Thrashers in 1999, and then the Minnesota Wild and the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2000, bringing the total to 30 teams.
The NHL wanted to bring hockey to more areas of the country, most notably places that weren't as steeped in hockey heritage. A lot of people initially criticized the idea of teams in Florida, Arizona and California, but given the success and fan support of teams even in seemingly radical markets, it was a pretty smart move. I mean the Lightning have won the Cup, the Ducks and the Hurricanes. More have come close and/or had a lot of success in reaching the Playoffs year after year. Not bad for young teams!
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PigletIsMyCat
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So, if the Ducks were founded by TWDC, are they owned by TWDC? Or, were they if they've been sold?
JWG
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Sold (and rightly so, not really the right investment area for Disney). In 2006-2007 rebranded "The Ducks" of Anaheim with new jerseys, colors and logo. Trying to look more fierce. I guess it worked.
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Sorry, it was possibly the dumbest move to make. Overall the past three years has seen a drop in sunshine belts teams attendence levels. Florida couldn't give away a ticket all season long and the Phoenix Coyotes attendance is battling St. Louis for the lowest attendence in the league.
The expansion across the southern united states is the dumbest move the NHL could make. They've removed beloved franchises from communities that have always supported their teams (Winnipeg, Hartford and Quebec City) and stuck them into places that have nairly the slightest clue about the game and are ill-supported by fair-weather-fans (I don't see too many Anaheim Ducks avatars on these boards), in the process of doing so they have severly diluted the talent pool and I personally feel that they have taken the passion out of the game in their attempts to make it into a better selling "product".
It's hockey, not shoes, not ipods,not burgers, it's a sport not a product. If you check the viewing stats you will find that the ratings from this past series you will see it was very small, especially when compared to years past. And I am willing to bet dimes to donuts that close to 75% of those viewers were Canadian households.
I'm not saying that American's don't deserve NHL Hockey, I am saying that (based on the evidence that has been well document) the NHL/Gary Bettman have shoe-horned it into places that it just doesn't fit. It's like a duck out of water (pun intended!).
Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest.
Resume discussion!
lol no,Disneyland isnt really putting those messages on their sign,its just a sign generator program,you type in what you want it to say and it shows it on the sign