ST. PAUL, Minn. — Stu Bickel laughs now, thinking about his movie cameo, when he serendipitously became an extra in the third Mighty Ducks film.Bickel, 39, who grew up in Chanhassen, Minn., was around 9 years old when the Disney production was on location at the Mall of America shooting a rollercoaster scene. Bickel and his brothers were on the coaster for one of what he estimated were 10 takes by the Ducks players. It was the Bickels’ only time on the ride, and it was the take that went in the movie.“It wasn’t like something where we were called in to be extras,” Bickel said. “We just got lucky. I just remember my mom saying, ‘Don’t act like idiots, otherwise they’re never going to use it.’“So we were pretty stoic.”It’s one of Bickel’s many ties to the Twin Cities, from playing for Eden Prairie High and the University of Minnesota to spending two years on Bob Motzko’s Gophers staff. He played nine of his 76 career NHL games with the Wild during the 2014-15 season and even had a memorable bout with current color analyst Ryan Carter in 2012.But his path to becoming the head coach of the Wild’s AHL affiliate in Iowa last month was also sparked by his relationship with Iowa general manager Matt Hendricks, an old summer skating partner during their playing days. The Wild, looking for their third AHL head coach in four years after Greg Cronin took a job on the St. Louis Blues staff, hope they’ve found a more long-term answer in Bickel.Bickel spent the past four years with AHL Coachella (the Seattle Kraken’s affiliate), going to four playoffs and two Calder Cup finals, and hopes to “build a winning culture” in Iowa. This is his first pro head coaching job. And Cup-winning coach Dan Bylsma, who had Bickel on his staff in Coachella for two years, believes the former NHL defenseman is ready.“He’s been with three good head coaches now, and those are valuable lessons in building an identity,” Bylsma said. “The first time always has to come. But you look at the development of coaches, it comes after a coach puts in experiences with good teams and organizations and has built his schtick and built his head coaching values over time, and Stu has put in that time.“He’s been ready for this jump, and I think he’s perfectly ready for it.”