Easter eggs in The Mighty Ducks Game Cha

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The Mighty Ducks are back.On March 26, Disney launched its rebootofthe old hockey franchise with "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers" on its streaming service Disney+.Based on the 90smovie that spring-boarded a generation of hockey fans, the newest version focuses on Evan, a hockey-crazed kid in Minnesota who gets cut from the Mighty Ducks  now a top-level and championship-winning peewee team  and forms his own team with the help of his mom(played by Lauren Graham).Since it's basically a what's-happened-since-the-original-Ducks-movie type of show, Gordon Bombay ( Michael Porter Jr. Jersey Emilio Estevez) is back andappearances by more of the original cast are expected later in the series. But if you want to see the whole season in one fell swoop, Disney is only releasing one episode at a time  every Friday through April 30.While the 2021 version is predominately geared to a new Noah Vonleh Jersey  generation of Ducks fans, the reboot has already dropped a number of Easter eggs for the, er, older generation.Here are a few that we could pick up.Warning: Spoilers belowEaster eggs in "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers"Episode 1: 'Game On'1. QuackingThe first throwback nod comes within the first two minutes of the episode.Two kids are hosting a Mighty Ducks podcastat the team's first practice of the year. They disclose thatthe modern-day version is a powerhouse and has won a record 10 state championships."Little different than the Ducks of the 90s, they actually used to quack," Mary Joe says with a laugh.Nick, her podcast co-host,responds:"Adorable."Well, yes kids, they did quack in the original movie, and yes kids, it was adorable because ducks stick together. 2. Hendrix PavilionThe 2021 Ducks skate at Hendrix Hockey Pavilion, which might just be the only homage to "D2: The Mighty Ducks." In the movie sequel, Hendrix is the sponsor of Team USA at the Junior Goodwill Games and, if you've never seen the movie, the Ducks basically become Team USA.3. Cake EaterAccording to Urban Dictionary,  Nikola Jokic Jersey a cake eater is a Minnesota-based term for people that are "so rich they can have theircake and eat it too." Je se throws the term around a few times, usually at Adam Banks, but he does call Gordon Bombay it too."Forget it, cake eater," Je se Hall says to Bombay in the locker room before storming out with his brother Terry after the coach says he's adding Banks to the team. Je se also calls him a cake eater, more as a term of endearment,at the end of the movie when Bombay is shipping off to the minors.In "Game Changers," Bombay now runs a rink and Mason Plumlee Jersey  he eats cake  a lot of it  but it's the leftover cakes from kids' birthday parties. He's no longer a rich lawyer, but he can eat his cake.4. Football helmetWhile it's definitely not the proper equipment for playing hockey, Dave Karp is seen sporting a football helmet before District 5 gets sponsored and becomes the Ducks back in 1992.In Episode 1, Coach T (played by Dylan Playfair) asks,as the kids are skating out onto the ice: "Is that a football helmet?"And yes, one of the kids is sporting the helmet.MORE:  5. Minnesota sweatshirtIt's pretty evident that Evan is the new Charlie, so it was a nice touch to have him sport a sweatshirt similar to the one Conway wore for Bombay's first game as District 5's head coach when he was at the still-to-be-named team'sfirst practice.6. The Flying V"Flying V" Evan yells as he leadshis new team  The Don't Bothers out onto the ice.You may recall, the Flying V was the Ducks'go-to move back in the day when a goal was needed.7. "I hate hockey and I don't like kids"This may be the ultimate Easter egg in the first  Greg Whittington Jersey episode and it's brilliant.Bombay tells Alex when she asks him to coach the new team: "I hate hockey and I don't like kids."In the original movie, he utters the exact same line to the team when he meets them for the very first time after pulling his stretch limo out onto the frozen pond.Episode 2: 'Dusters'1. Minnesota sweatshirtIt's back Paul Millsap Jersey , butthis time momAlex is sporting it.2. Flannel shirtsThere's a lot of flannel in this episode, which could be a throwback to Bombay wearing one in "D3" when he takes Charlie to watch Coach Orion skate with his daughter in a wheelchair and to get him back on board with the team. In fact, it looks as if Bombay is wearing the same shirt at the end of he episiode when the kids get back on the ice after losing handily.3. Beach ballsHard to gauge which scene this is throwing back to. Immediately, the thought went back to the OG usingeggs as an unconvential training method; however, it's probably an homage to "D2" when the team kicks around beach balls at its last team practice before the final game.4. CardinalsWhile it' Jerami Grant Jersey s expected that the team would play the Cardinals, because it's the same division as back in the day, some would call the appearance of the teaman Easter egg.5. Gordon's solo skateProbably the best Easter egg in the episode is the Gordon Bombay solo skate.In the first movie, Gordon hits the ice late at night by himself to reflect and try to find his love of the game again; after this, he fully invests in the Ducks. For the second movie,he's on rollerblades  because, you know, they're in Los Angeles  and re-centers himself as Team USA's bench bo s at the Junior Goodwill Games.In Episode 2, Bombay again spends some time on the ice by himself, so it's fair to sayhe'll be coaching The Don't Bothers soon.6. Last time Bombay skatedAnd after viewing Bombay's solo skate, Alex asks Gordon when he last skated,to which he replies: "When did the North Stars move to Dallas?" It's a tip of the cap to "D2," which came out in 1994 and was the last time we saw him hit the ice (Bombay did not lace them up in "D3").Minnesota's NHL team moved down to Texas after the 1992-93 season, which would have been when the movie was made Facundo Campazzo Jersey   so basically Bombay hadn't been on skates in a, sigh, really long time.