The name comes from the Disney movie The Mighty Ducks . The team 's original name was chosen from the 1992 Disney movie The Mighty Ducks , based on a group of misfit kids who turn their losing youth hockey team into a winning team . Disney subsequently made an animated series called Mighty Ducks , featuring a fictional Mighty Ducks of Anaheim team that consisted of anthropomorphized ducks led by the Mighty Duck Wildwing .