Geese of a feather, Joshua Jackson and Marguerite Moreau are sticking collectively greater than 30 years later to point out their Mighty Geese pleasure.
The pair, who starred collectively within the 1992 Disney film, repped the Anaheim Geese on Friday as they suited up within the workforce’s jerseys (with their to announce their first-round picks of the 2025 NHL Draft on the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles.
“It’s been some time since I wore 96, so it’s good to have again on,” stated Jackson on NHL Tonight as he and Moreau sported jerseys with their characters’ names and workforce numbers.
Whereas showing onstage, Jackson and Moreau introduced Roger McQueen because the Anaheim Geese’ first draft choose, making him the tenth participant chosen general.
Jackson performed Charlie Conway, alongside Moreau’s Connie Moreau, in The Mighty Geese, which adopted reckless lawyer Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) as he’s arrested for drunk driving and ordered to educate the titular youngsters hockey workforce as group service.
Along with launching the sequels D2 (1994) and D3: The Mighty Geese (1996), in addition to a 1996-’97 ABC animated sequence and the Disney+ sequence The Mighty Geese: Recreation Changers (2021-’22), the monetary success of the unique 1992 movie impressed The Walt Disney Firm to type the NHL workforce in ’93, initially known as the Mighty Geese of Anaheim till Disney offered the franchise in 2005.
“I don’t assume actually any of us knew what we had been doing and couldn’t probably have even dreamed that this may be a risk all these years later,” stated Jackson.
The Physician Odyssey alum famous that not one of the draft picks had been born but when the primary film got here out. “Actually each single certainly one of them. A few of their mother and father weren’t even born by the point we made the Mighty Geese films,” he joked on NHL Tonight.
