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Steve Brill I think it's fair to say for a generation of sports fans. It even people

are sports fans. The name Goran Bombay and the flying V the knuckle puck. These are phrases.

These are names that immediately bring to mind great memories from childhood and a classic

film that you wrote that you created. The mighty ducks. Where did the idea come from?

Well, it's funny when you say Gordon Bombay. It's like that. You say that's iconic, which

is funny because I was very young. I was 26 years old and I was drinking gin that summer.

And the two gins, if you know where the most popular back then were Bombay gin and Gordon's gin.

And I looked over the bar and I saw Gordon Bombay. And I wrote that as the main character's name.

And also a little not to Gordy Howe. But yeah, Gordon Bombay came from drinking gin that summer

when I was 26. Lucky you were drinking beef eater that summer. It could have been yeah, Louis

beef eater or a shivis shivis beef eater could have been the coach. That's a good name.

Well, we're, we're, you know, where does the idea of a film about kids playing hockey? How does

that even occur to you? Well, I played hockey in upstate New York in Utica, New York growing up

till I was about 11. And I loved it. I loved skating. It was the most, the most incredible feeling.

And I loved the sport of hockey. But I played on a team that was just terrible. And my coach

is really mean. And I remember getting hit on the ice as a young kid like checked. And I was like,

this is how dare they hit me? I can't believe it. But it was really, it was, it was the most engaging

sport and the most exciting and thrilling. So I always remember that. And then when I moved out

to Los Angeles in the 80s, after college, I got reinvigorated and reintroduced to hockey because

I would go to the Kings games out at the forum back in the Marcel Dionne, Error Dave Taylor,

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