DUCKS GET THEIR DUE ANAHEIM FANS THANK THEIR TEAM AT POND.Byline: Brice Nixon Staff Writer ANAHEIM - The city of Anaheim on Wednesday held a rally to celebrate the best season in Mighty Ducks
Mighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. Twenty-six episodes total were produced. franchise history, one which surprised the hockey world and came within one victory of the Stanley Cup Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice. Stanley Cup Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston . An estimated crowd of 3,000 showed up at the Pond two days after the Ducks lost to the New Jersey Devils The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Devils have won the Stanley Cup three times, in 1995, 2000, and 2003. in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Mighty Ducks players, coaches, front-office personnel and other members of the organization were introduced. Ducks first-year coach Mike Babcock Mike Babcock (born April 29, 1963 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [1]) is a Canadian hockey head coach and former player. From 2002 to 2005 he was the head coach of the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks, leading the Ducks to their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals and the team's players expressed gratitude to the fans and promised an even better result next season. ``Next year, same time, different result,'' Ducks captain Paul Kariya said. Babcock said this season set a foundation that should allow a much-improved franchise to establish itself as a consistent winner. ``They had a dream,'' Babcock said of his players. ``That dream is just staring now. We look forward to things getting better and better here in Anaheim as we pursue our dream.'' It was quite a season for the Ducks and their fans. The Ducks named a new general manager and coach after a third consecutive season missing the playoffs. They started to reshape the roster before the season began and continued to do so as they gained steam to close out the regular season. The Ducks were not expected to get past the first round when they started the postseason. But goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere quickly became the story of the playoffs when he led the Ducks to a first-round sweep of the defending Stanley Cup-champion Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. and continued to stymie sty·mie also sty·my tr.v. sty·mied , sty·mie·ing also sty·my·ing , sty·mies To thwart; stump: a problem in thermodynamics that stymied half the class. n. 1. opponents during the Ducks' run to the Finals. The Ducks eliminated the top-seeded Dallas Stars to reach the conference finals for the first time, then swept the Minnesota Wild to become Western Conference champions. The Ducks seemed overmatched after the first two games of the Finals but rebounded to push the series to a seventh game. Although the Devils won Game 7 for their third Cup in nine years, Giguere won the Conn Smythe Trophy The Conn Smythe Trophy is awarded annually to the player judged most valuable to his team during the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs. The Conn Smythe Trophy has been awarded 42 times to 36 players since the 1964-65 NHL season. as playoff MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. . ``It's been an outstanding year,'' said Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, whose city celebrated the Angels' World Series championship a year ago. Brice Nixon, (626) 962-8811 brice.nixon(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tony Oz, left, of Laguna Beach and his 5-year-old son, Jordan, are surrounded by fellow Mighty Ducks fans Wednesday during a rally to honor Anaheim's season. Jerome T. Nakagawa/Associated Press |
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