After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, our squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at the hockey — without school getting in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?

The Ducks immediately stood out when they arrived late in a battered RV and interrupted Coach Colin Cole’s (Josh Duhamel) big speech welcoming the kids to the program. The camp mistakenly invited them, believing these Ducks to be Coach T’s team, winners of the Minnesota State Champion in hockey, not the Don’t Bothers won the rights to t the Ducks moniker in an underground hockey game.

Much like “D2: The Mighty Ducks”, being coached by someone who takes youth sports way too seriously and doesn’t agree with the Duck’s brand of hockey to just have fun on the ice. It’s another case of the underdogs being told to “don’t bother” and a group of kids who refuse to give up. However, in their first test during Coach Cole’s ice breaker game the goal is to score and prevent others from scoring. The squad struggled against tough competition, which included a confident player named A.J.(Connor DeWolfe), and while Evan, Sofi, and several others made it out fine, Nick (Maxwell Simkins) lagged far behind in second-to-last place. But that was still better than Coach Cole’s son, who came in dead last after missing a shot, much to his disappointment.

It was obvious throughout the first season the Ducks coach was a villain. Season two lets us know the lead counselor at the camp is going to have a similar mindset, but he also seems willing to adapt. The new Mighty Ducks had a lot to prove, especially now that they were no longer competing as a team. As Coach Cole pointed out, everyone was fighting for an individual spot in the world hockey showcase at the end of summer. (Note: If there’s going to be an international competition, does that mean we’ll also see Team Iceland?)

As Alex was trying to get the team to head back to Minnesota and enjoy their summer Evan, not one to back down from a challenge to prove an adult wrong convinces his teammates to stick it out as their summer officially begins tomorrow morning… at 5 am.

There’s also a pair of nice cameos at the beginning of the episode when we found out the Ice Palace has been condemned. They mention Bombay calling in the best construction worker he knows Fulton Reed (Elden Ratliff) and his fellow enforcer from the second and third movies, Dean Portman (Aaron Lohr) is now working construction with him, The Bash Brothers are still friends and working together.

This series looks like it’s going to be predictable, but given its target audience, that’s not really a bad thing. It’s great to have the Ducks back on the ice and let’s see how they win over the hockey counselor and Coach Cole this season. Check out the trailer below.