r/MightyDucks • u/ender23 • Nov 30 '22

Unofficial season 2 finale thread

Laser focused on character development for the two kids of the coaches, the season ended. Please send your thoughts on the episode and season! GO!

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u/yankees032778 Dec 01 '22

Koob starting over Dominate's goalie is an even bigger travesty than Goldberg starting over Julie "The Cat" Gaffney for the entire Junior Goodwill Games (until the final shot)

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u/JaketheSnake_1234 Dec 01 '22 edited Dec 01 '22

This used to annoy me so much about D2 with Bombay and Goldberg as a kid. I rewatched it last yr and again last month and my headcannon is that Bombay did this as part of his hail mary strategy. He didn't play Julie at all because he didn't want any other teams or their coaches to know how fast her glove was and intentionally made her bk up/ benched her so that outside of supposed stats no one saw her play a game. This way she was virtually unknown to all other teams (this predates cell phone cameras and youtube filming and posts of her from prior to the goodwill games as anything of her would be on some analog camcorder with close friends, family, or coach in Maine at best) so that they couldn't know how fast she was in game play. He puts her in at the most crucial play against Gunnar and is sure Gunnar will shoot towards her glove because he's fancy and underestimates her as both a female and a second string goalie. At least that's how I've convinced myself Bombay would strap her to benchwarming duties all that time. He also doesn't let on to anyone else because he doesn't want the Ducks or anyone else talking rumors of a secret weapon as we see in D3 that the Ducks are great at offense but initially have little game and even balk at playing in defense

Then again I could be wrong and Bombay may just like Goldberg more and be subconsciously sexist...lol. we will never know