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Jesse Hall is the greatest Mighty Duck that ever lived
At some nondescript hour of the night, I caught the last 45 minutes of The Mighty Ducks on television. Usually, when some nondescript movie comes on while I’m about to fade to black, I just pass out for the evening. Yet, this was The Mighty Ducks, and there was absolutely no chance I was going to turn the channel on one of the greatest movies of all-time. No way in hell.
When The Mighty Ducks came out in 1992, I was about to turn 9 years old. By this time I had become fully invested in sports as a child and was just getting introduced to hockey. Sure, I was familiar with players like Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, but as an aficionado, I wasn’t.
Yet and still, I was captivated by the movie. I remember going to see it in the theaters with mom and her date. I really hated that dude, so I made sure that I begged my mama for the big bucket of popcorn, the biggest soda and even some candy for good measure. If you’re gonna try and get at my mama, I’m about to hit your pockets in the process. Did I mention that I was a devious 9-year-old?
Anyway, the movie itself had a cast of young, no-name characters who over the course of three Mighty Ducks movies we would come to grow and love. What I didn’t realize is that there would be one person, in particular, that would win me over and that I’d…
