As a kid who didn’t exactly follow hockey in the 90s, some of my earliest memories of the sport start in the road in front of my dad’s house, where the neighborhood kids gathered in inline skates, attempting our best knucklepuck or flying V, not fully realizing that those aren’t things that actually happen in real life. I’m not sure that you could have convinced us of this — after all, we did see it happen in The Mighty Ducks films, and Disney would never lie to children.
The Mighty Ducks were a cultural touchstone for kids of the 90s, interest in hockey or not.