mighty ducks of anaheim

olspan=2\| Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
olspan=2\|Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Founded	1992
Home ice	Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
Based in	Anaheim
Colours	Jade green and maroon
League	National Hockey League
Head coach	Mike Babcock
General manager	Al Coates
Owner	The Walt Disney Company

The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim are a National Hockey League team based in Anaheim, California. They were founded in 1992, with their home arena at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim ("The Pond"). Their uniform colors are maroon and jade green, and feature a hockey mask forming a duck's beak, in front of two crossed hockey sticks.

Franchise history

When founded in 1992, the Mighty Ducks were owned by The Walt Disney Company. The team's name was chosen from the Disney movie The Mighty Ducks (much to the disdain of many traditionalists), about a group of misfit teens who form an amateur hockey team. Disney has subsequently also made an animated television series called Mighty Ducks, featuring a fictional Mighty Ducks of Anaheim team that consists of actual (albeit anthropomorphised) ducks. With their first draft pick, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim selected Paul Kariya 4th overall in Round 1 of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. Kariya would become the cornerstone of young Mighty Ducks franchise, the team captain, and would nearly lead them to Stanley Cup glory in 2003 before his departure for the Colorado Avalanche. In 1997, the Mighty Ducks made their first playoff appearance and defeated the Phoenix Coyotes in seven games in the Western Conference quarterfinals. However, they lost in the semifinals to the Detroit Red Wings. Their best playoff performance in franchise history saw the Ducks come within one game of the Stanley Cup. They swept defending Stanley Cup champs the Detroit Red Wings, beat the Dallas Stars in the quarterfinals, defeated the Minnesota Wild in the Conference Finals, and finally fell to the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals in 7 games. For his heroics which had kept Anaheim in the playoffs many times, goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most-valuable-player of the playoffs. In 2005, Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli of Irvine, California agreed to buy the Ducks from the Walt Disney Company. Samueli has pledged not to move the team from Anaheim.

Season-by-season

Year	GP	W	L	T	OL	GF	GA	PTS	Finish	Playoffs
1993-94	84	33	46	5	-	229	251	71	4th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
1994-95	48	16	27	5	-	125	164	37	6th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
1995-96	82	35	39	8	-	234	247	78	4th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
1996-97	82	36	33	13	-	243	233	85	2nd Pacific	Lost Conference Semi-Final (DET)
1997-98	82	26	43	13	-	205	261	65	6th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
1998-99	82	35	34	13	-	215	206	83	3rd Pacific	Lost Conference Quarter-Final (DET)
1999-00	82	34	33	12	3	217	227	83	5th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
2000-01	82	25	41	11	5	188	245	66	5th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
2001-02	82	29	42	8	3	175	198	69	5th Pacific	Out of Playoffs
2002-03	82	40	27	9	6	203	193	95	2nd Pacific	Lost Stanley Cup Finals (NJ)
2003-04	82	29	35	10	8	184	213	76	4th Pacific	Out of Playoffs