Warning: This article contains spoilers The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 1, Episode 4, "Hockey Moms," now streaming on Disney+.
Season 1, Episode 4, of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers focuses more on the adults than the kids. The moms from the Mighty Ducks team challenge the moms from a rival team in a skills competition every year, and this year Alex Marrow and the other Don't Bother moms are the challengers. As part of this plot line, the relationship between Alex and Gordon Bombay heats up as their romantic tension builds.
Alex and Bombay leave the Ice Palace together one evening when Alex's boss and nemesis, Stephanie, gets lost in the neighborhood and stumbles upon them. As a result, Stephanie invites Alex and Bombay to join her and her husband, Clark, for dinner. While out to dinner, Alex is belittled by Stephanie, and Bombay takes note, especially during the story about Alex missing out on pecan pie during an office party. Alex does her best to keep the peace and stay polite during the dinner, but Bombay makes a couple of comments in her defense.
At the dinner, Stephanie learns the moms from the Huskies have dropped out of the mom's skills competition with the Ducks. Bombay volunteers that the Don't Bother moms step in instead. Clark says that Stephanie is the record holder in the slapshot competition, and Bombay puts Alex up as her competitor.
After volunteering the Don't Bother moms, Bombay laces up as a coach and helps the women in their training. He takes extra time to train Alex on the slapshot portion, and they stay together on the ice after the other moms leave. Bombay helps motivate Alexy by helping her focus her frustrations into the power of her shot, which works. Then, Bombay makes the coaching a bit more intimate by helping Alex with her hand positioning.
The closeness of his coaching has them pause, and their romantic tension becomes palpable. Bombay has been opening up to Alex as she and the Don't Bother team have helped open him back up to the world of hockey. Alex has also found confidence and support from Bombay, and the two clearly have romantic tension.
Later at the skills competition, Bombay uses a slice of pecan pie to motivate Alex during the slapshot competition, showing that he internalized something he's learned about her. As a result, Alex has a harder shot than Stephanie but loses because of a technicality. Bombay's support of Alex doesn't end with the competition though. Later that night, he turns up at the Marrow household with the rest of the pie. She invites him inside, and she, Bombay and Evan eat the pie in a sweet ending for the episode.
Bombay's arrival at the Marrow household mimics his relationship with Charlie Conway's mother, Casey. Bombay was hanging out with Charlie at his house when his mom came home, and Bombay asked her out on a first date. The two are in a relationship during the first film, but they breakup between movies, and Charlie says she got married to someone else prior to the events of D2: The Mighty Ducks.
Coach Gordon Bombay has dated the mother of a hockey player previously in The Mighty Ducks franchise, and it seems like he may do so again. During the fourth episode of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, the romantic tension between Alex and Bombay is at an all time high. The two aren't dating yet, but the signs are there.
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers stars Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, Bella Higginbotham, and DJ Watts. The series premieres Friday, March 26 on Disney+.
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