History Series / Shoresy

* InsistentTerminology: Shoresy is adamant that the key to winning isn't loving to win, it's ''hating to lose''.

The series premiered on May 13, 2022 on {{Creator/Crave}}, and made available to stream on {{Creator/Hulu}} on May 27. Season 2 premiered on September 29, 2023, and was made available to stream on October 27. As of October 2023, the show has been renewed for a third season.

** Shoresy says Ziig's voice drives her crazy because it's so annoying.

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** Whenever Nat talks about the benefits a successful Bulldogs team would have for the Sudbury community, Miig sums it up with "sports keeps kids off the streets," and Ziig follows with "drugs kill dreams."

* AdamWesting: Jonathan Diaby plays a fictional version of himself, including footage from a real life incident where he went into the stands after a racist fan.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Shoresy in ''Letterkenny'' was an absolute ''dick'' with zero redeeming qualities, who couldn't give less of a fuck about his team or the girls he dates. Here, he's still a dick, but with many more redeeming qualities. Perhaps the biggest example being that he couldn't give less of a damn in ''Letterkenny'' if his carelessness cost the team their championship trophy, while here his main goal is to turn the Sudbury Bulldogs into a winning team again.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Shoresy keeps hitting on Laura Mohr by showering her with compliments, making her laugh, and listing all the things he'd do for her if she let him. She constantly turns him down, but not in a way that suggests his interest is unwelcome, so he keeps at it. At the end of season 2, [[spoiler:he finally wins her over]].

* EmbarrassingNickname: Shoresy's is 'Waffle', though he doesn't mind at all when his family uses it.

* HiddenDepths: "Hockey Brings People Together" reveals that a lot of Nat's drive to make the Bulldogs succeed isn't just the fact that she owns the team and it's her money and reputation on the line, it's that her recently deceased mother owned the team before her and Nat wants to live up to her. Also, like her cousin Tanis, Nat sees hockey as a way of getting people into a safe, harmless pastime and away from negative influences.
** "The Man Advantage" reveals that the reason Shoresy pushes himself so hard in hockey, despite acknowledging that he's getting a bit old to be going as hard as he does, is because he doesn't feel like he has a place in the world otherwise. In the rink, he's a hero. Outside of it, he's just some idiot loser.
** Michaels turns out to be really good at trivia.

* KavorkaMan: JJ Frankie JJ is a minor-league hockey player who is not a great beauty. However, he is notorious for dating many of Quebec's most beautiful female celebrities, and explicitly only accepted Shoresy's request to play for the Bulldogs because of all the beautiful women in Sudbury. He even dates two different Canadian actresses over the course of the first season, and is two-timing one of them with a third actress in season two.
* LadykillerInLove: Shoresy, renowned for wheeling his buddies' moms, is head-over-heels in love with Laura Mohr, the local sportswriter. Instead of his usual foul-mouthed string of obscenities, he talks about the nice meals they could have and how "I'd be so good to you." It's adorable.

* LikesOlderWomen: Shoresy, showing that all of his IBangedYourMom jokes from ''Letterkenny'' might have been more accurate then we'd all assumed. He even calls women near his own age 'too young' for him. Others attribute it to his lack of a mother figure growing up.

* PatrioticFervor: Just like in ''Letterkenny'', Shoresy is proud to be a Canadian, so much so that he always cries when listening to the national anthem. When the American team arranges for a completely horrific flute rendition to be played during the away game, he's visibly struggling not to lose his shit.

* SeriousBusiness: The Jims take their trivia competitions so seriously that when their team is down a player, it throws them off to the point that they can't focus on hockey.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ted isn't interested in having flings and short-term relationships. He wants a woman he can have a meaningful relationship with, which he eventually finds with [[MayDecemberRomance Pam.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: As an AdaptationalNiceGuy, Shoresy is already substantially less unpleasant to be around than when he appeared in ''Letterkenny.'' Becoming the captain of the Bulldogs also sees him learning to become a leader.

* PatrioticFervor: Just like in ''Letterkenny'', Shoresy is proud to be a Canadian, so much so that he always cries when listening to the national anthem. When the American team arranges for a completely horrific flute rendition to be played during the away game, he's visibly struggling not to lose his shit (and probably would have if the perpetrator wasn't a child who clearly wasn't in on the prank).

* DoggedNiceGuy: Shoresy keeps hitting on Laura Mohr, who constantly turns him down. From her comments, it's not that she doesn't like or is uninterested in him, it's more that she doesn't think he's sincere about genuinely wanting an actual relationship with her.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Shoresy frequently talks over Sanguinet and insults him, but after seeing a guy at the club harass him, Shoresy follows the guy into the bathroom and slams his head into the wall until he passes out.

* LikesOlderWomen: Shoresy, to the point that he calls women near his own age 'too young' for him. Others attribute it to his lack of a mother figure growing up.

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: In "Hockey Brings People Together", the Cyclones don't even bother sending their main team to fight the Bulldogs, just their backup players. Sanguinet takes this opportunity to get the Bulldogs fired up by telling them that the Cyclones don't even respect them enough to fight them themselves, which works, and the Bulldogs win.

* CharacterDevelopment: In ''Letterkenny'', Shoresy was a shallow gag character who would appear, make a few quick chirps, and then vanish again for a few episodes. While hilarious, that characterization or lack thereof wouldn't be able to carry a full series, so he's fleshed out considerably, while still being just as crass.
** The entire Bulldogs get one over the course of the season, going from not really caring about the game to hating to lose as much as Shoresy does.

* ThePeterPrinciple:
** Michaels is a lousy coach who gets no respect from his players and is fired in the first episode. When he is rehired as a player, he quickly proves that he is an excellent hockey player and quickly gains the respect of his teammates.
** Averted with Sanguinet, who was an average player but quickly grows into his role as the new coach.

** "FUCK YOU, SHORESY!", naturally.
*** "FER WHAT?!"
** "Shut the FUCK up, Sanguinet!" Almost every time Sanguinet opens his mouth. Later, when Michaels joins the team, it becomes "Shut the FUCK up, Michaels!"

* RelationshipUpgrade: Miig and Sanguinet start dating between seasons 1 and 2.

*** Been called worse, b'ys.

*** "Senior AAA." "Whaleshit all the same."

*** "That's great, Cor, but did you know that Clearasil removes dirt and oil from your pores leaving your skin smooth and refreshed?"

* [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Man Seeks Good Woman]]: Ted isn't interested in having flings and short-term relationships. He wants a woman he can have a meaningful relationship with, which he eventually finds with [[MayDecemberRomance Pam.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: "With A Girl Like You" by the Troggs plays in the intro of "The Man Advantage" as Shoresy grabs [=McPherson=], a Norsemen player whose nose he broke, and drags him across the ice, leaving a trail of blood, and throws him into the Bulldogs' bench so the rest of the team can beat him up.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: By the final game of the season, the Bulldogs have grown into a very strong team. However, the Sault Ste. Marie team are an extremely good team whose top players sat out the previous game and are well rested. The Bulldogs are given no openings and are outplayed in the first two periods. They manage to come back in the third period but it is not enough to close the large lead the opposition had.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Miig and Ziig, Nat's assistants.
** Also Rémy Nadeau and Benoit "Benny" Brodeur.
** And Cory and Liam, two high school hockey players at the school that Shoresy works at.

* TookALevelInKindness: This Shoresy is substantially less unpleasant to be around than when he appeared in ''Letterkenny.'' He's still a jerk, but he's not impossible to be friends with.
* ToughLove: After getting frustated with Fish's lack of goals recently, Shoresy and Sanguinet warn him that if he doesn't score in their next game, he's off the team. They're both absolutely *elated* when he does, and it's clear that they were confident he could do it (they even call him a 'scorer'), but Fish and everyone else express the opinion that they went too far.

** Goody loves chicken. Goody ''really'' loves chicken.[[note]]Chicken is unbelievable.[[/note]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "We're not beating the Sault tonight."]]

* ManlyTears: Shoresy is completely unapologetic about his tendency to cry at various different moments. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, the playing of the Canadian national anthem before each game–with one notable exception.[[note]]The kid on the recorder, whom the Soo Hunt bring in specifically to mess with Shoresy.[[/note]] When he expresses a reluctance to cry, it's for situational reasons (for example, wanting to have finished crying before Nat arrives), not because he feels any shame for crying.

* BilingualDialogue: Dolo will nearly always only speak in Quebecois but understands English just fine; JJ Frankie JJ and Laurence Leboeuf alternate between the two.

** Whenever someone mentions getting tough Natives for the team, Miig or Ziig will say that 'tough Natives' is redundant.

* ToughLove: After getting frustated with Fish's lack of goals recently, Shoresy and Sanguinet warn him that if he doesn't score in their next game, he's off the team. They're both absolutely ''elated'' when he does, and it's clear that they were confident he could do it (they even call him a 'scorer'), but Fish and everyone else express the opinion that they went too far.

* SoundtrackDissonance: "With A Girl Like You" by the Troggs plays in the intro of "The Man Advantage" as Shoresy grabs [=McPherson=]. a Norsemen player whose nose he broke, and drags him across the ice, leaving a trail of blood, and throws him into the Bulldogs' bench for the rest of the team to beat him up.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In "The Man Advantage", Mercedes and her brother tell Shoresy that they want Frankie to appear at the Coulson for the upcoming gay night. When Shoresy tells them that Frankie's been very depressed and is refusing to leave his room, Mercedes makes it clear that either Frankie attends or Shoresy and the team are getting badly hurt.

** Shoresy asks a question, and when the other person starts to answer it, interrupts them with "Huh?" He also starts his sentences with "Yeah, so". He also often responds to 'Fuck you, Shoresy' with 'FOR WHAT?'

* LoveTriangle: Sanguinet and Miig are attracted to each other (and wind up dating), but Mercedes is attracted to Sanguinet (who is also attracted to her, but is more interested in Miig) and isn't someone who takes no or polite brush-offs for an answer.

** Subverted with the Soo Hunt's Will Belson, Ben Welson, Wayne Bilson and Bill Wilson. They are technically distinct names but can be a nightmare for an announcer to call out during play when they start passing the puck to each other. The first time Remy Nadeau tries to call out their play, he ends up misnaming one of them as Benson.

* TimeSkip: There's one of somewhere between several months and a year between the first two seasons.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Shoresy becomes one in season two, feeling that his teammates aren't trying hard enough and aren't achieving everything they should be able to. At one point, he and Sanguinet tell Fish that after several games of having not scored any goals, if he can't score a goal in the game they're playing, then he's off the team. (Fish scores the goals, but makes it clear that he is very much not OK with having been given that ultimatum.)

* HiddenDepths: "Hockey Brings People Together" reveals that a lot of Nat's drive to make the Bulldogs succeed isn't just the fact that she owns the team and it's her money and reputation on the line, it's that her late mother owned the team before her and Nat wants to live up to her. Also, like her cousin Tanis, Nat sees hockey as a way of getting people into a safe, harmless pastime and away from negative influences.

* Subverted with Soo Hunt's Will Belson, Ben Welson, Wayne Bilson and Bill Wilson. They are technically distinct names but can be a nightmare for an announcer to call out during play when they start passing the puck to each other. The first time Remy Nadeau tries to call out their play, he ends up misnaming one of them as Benson.

* PatrioticFervor: Just like in ''Letterkenny'', Shoresy is proud to be a Canadian, so much so that he always cries when listening to the national anthem. When the American team arranges for a completely horrific flute rendition to be played during the away game, he's visibly struggling not to lose his shit (and probably would have if the perpetrator wasn't a child who clearly wasn't in on the prank.)

** "FUCK YOU, SHORESY!" , naturally.

* PatrioticFervor: Just like in ''Letterkenny'', Shoresy is proud to be a Canadian, so much so that he always cries when listening to the national anthem.

* OneSteveLimit: Played with. There are three players named Jim, and all three insist on being called Jim, even with Shoresy lampshading how confusing that would get. In the end it is subverted since the three Jims always act in unison and the entire trio is always addressed together as "Jim, Jim and Jim".