Way back in 1992, ‘The Mighty Ducks’ chronicled the misadventures of a rag-tag group of ice hockey players banding together under the mentorship of Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez), a lawyer whose past as a star junior ice hockey player is long behind him.

He’s none too happy, then when after a drink-driving charge, he’s drafted in to coach the struggling Mighty Ducks team as his community service. These kids aren’t the cream of the crop – and if they are, the cream has curdled.

And yet helps them find the strength to play like a real team, and they end up facing off against players representing the squad he used to be part of, helping him battle his own ghosts.

The original movie was popular enough to spawn a franchise, with two cinematic sequels and an animated TV show that was only loosely inspired by the movies, and instead focused on humanoid duck superheroes who play ice hockey.

Continuing and updating the story for a modern Disney+ audience, ‘Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ brings the ‘Mighty Ducks’ concept into the present day, where the Mighty Ducks, far from being rag-tag, is now a giant sports franchise with top-tier players. But when one of their own is dropped (Brady Noon’s Evan Morrow), his mother Alex (Lauren Graham) ropes Bombay back in to help coach a new group of unlikely heroes.

Josh Duhamel as Colin Cole in 'The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Season 2.'

Josh Duhamel as Colin Cole in 'The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Season 2, which premieres September 28th on Disney+.

Estevez isn’t back for season two, which finds the new Ducks – who were triumphant in their first season, winning the name back from the soulless franchise team – hitting the road with Alex 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 hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?

In this exclusive clip from Episode 6 'Twigs,' the individual competition part of the institute’s program is ending, and it’s time for the tournament period to begin. Coach Cole is looking to drum up enthusiasm as the team jerseys are handed out.

Alex, though, is not quite as impressed by the coach’s theatrics – at least until she considers that he “stuck the landing” with his inspirational speech.

Graham, at least, is happy with how the series, created by the original movie’s writer Steve Brill alongside Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, tackles its themes. “The show philosophically looks at some of the pressures kids have through the lens of sports, especially as young teenagers now,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Of course everybody enjoys winning, but at what cost? And what’s more important, is it your effort, your team spirit, or the results you get? Is it how you conduct yourself and what kind of character you have? It asks those questions in just a slightly more grown up way, because the kids are a little bit older now, there’s a little more romance, there’s a little more peer pressure kind of issues, and it’s all in the spirit of being a good team player, which I think is really sweet.”

‘The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ streams new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.

Josh Duhamel as Colin Cole in 'The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Season 2.

Josh Duhamel as Colin Cole in 'The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Season 2, which premieres September 28th on Disney+.