Anaheim Ducks network for the 1998–99 season, which would also carry Anaheim Angels baseball games, but the plan was abandoned. Anaheim Ducks The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Since their inception, the Ducks have played their home games at the Honda Center (formerly The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim). The club was founded in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, a name based on the 1992 film "The Mighty Ducks". Disney sold the
2005–06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season the Entry Draft, the Mighty Ducks chose Bobby Ryan as their first-round pick, second overall. As the previous season had been cancelled, the draft order was set by lottery. The Ducks, given two balls in the lottery process, were likely to go in the middle of the pack, but instead received the second pick, the first going to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who selected Sidney Crosby. The Mighty Ducks signed free agent Scott Niedermayer, a former James Norris Memorial Trophy winner. One reason Niedermayer signed was to play with his brother, Rob Niedermayer. Captain Steve Rucchin was traded to the New