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Calicaps said:
I have never watched Shoresy and know nothing about it. Cliffs notes please!
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Hockey show, small Canadian town, bunch of dummies, follows one team ina Sr AAA league/ownership/etc…

Better than Letterkenney (sorry couldn’t stand it). Neither are must watches IMO, but I was entertained by Shorsey. Lots of LK fans here will tell you different I’m sure on preference.
 
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I think we should put the same exact level of effort into our playoff avatars as we do into our game day threads. So just this:

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Calicaps said:
I have never watched Shoresy and know nothing about it. Cliffs notes please!
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Start with Letterkenny, despite CCFs (CCR?) incorrect opinion, its great. Shorsey is a character there, but he never gets any face time, only body and quotes but the quotes are basically nothing but hockey chirps. Shorsey is played by the creator of both series, as a personification of all his hockey teammates growing up, hence how it came to get its own spinoff. Both series are terrific.
 
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kicksavedave said:
Start with Letterkenny, despite CCFs (CCR?) incorrect opinion, its great. Shorsey is a character there, but he never gets any face time, only body and quotes but the quotes are basically nothing but hockey chirps. Shorsey is played by the creator of both series, as a personification of all his hockey teammates growing up, hence how it came to get its own spinoff. Both series are terrific.
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Fair enough and maybe I'll watch. But I'd vote no on this for the avatars... too close. I think the best ones, and surely the best ones we've done, involve totally non-hockey stuff worked into a hockey theme.
 
kicksavedave said:
Start with Letterkenny, despite CCFs (CCR?) incorrect opinion, its great. Shorsey is a character there, but he never gets any face time, only body and quotes but the quotes are basically nothing but hockey chirps. Shorsey is played by the creator of both series, as a personification of all his hockey teammates growing up, hence how it came to get its own spinoff. Both series are terrific.
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This. Both shows are amazing. Give Letterkenny time as the characters develop. Shoresy will be self-evident after finishing a few seasons of LK.
 
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“F*** you, Crosby - tell your mom to stop calling me.”

I enjoy Shoresy as much as the next guy - but I think it’s too on the nose for HF. I like the island of misfit toys ideas. Adding to others’ movies - more underdog stuff like The Warriors or even Goonies.

Then there’s the actual Misfits, we could restyle one of their songs as ‘We Are 895’

Have to keep thinking about this…
 
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Anyone superstitious? Looking back, in 2018 we did a villain / Tom Wilson unmasked theme.

Nobody except us would remember it was a repeat idea. ;)

I still like the misfit toys or similar. Maybe something about the great HF crash of 2025.

And no sooner after posting this do I get "An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later" going back.
 
g00n said:
This. Both shows are amazing. Give Letterkenny time as the characters develop. Shoresy will be self-evident after finishing a few seasons of LK.
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Shorsey is MUCH less of a commitment in time 4 seasons (24 episodes) vs 12 seasons (81 episodes) of LK.

I challenge @Calicaps to make it through more than 3 episodes of those LK dumbasses and how they all talk! 😂

You don’t need to watch LK to enjoy Shorsey.
 
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CapitalsCupReality said:
Shorsey is MUCH less of a commitment in time 4 seasons (24 episodes) vs 12 seasons (81 episodes) of LK.

I challenge @Calicaps to make it through more than 3 episodes of those LK dumbasses and how they all talk! 😂

You don’t need to watch LK to enjoy Shorsey.
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No you don't need to finish LK to enjoy Shoresy but you'll miss some things about some of the characters that are in both (not a lot) and some of the terminology.

Plus it's just more fun to finally see Shoresy after only hearing him in LK.

But anyway, yes it may be a bit too on the nose as was mentioned.

I don't know where this misfit toys thing comes from (says the guy with a Misfits avatar) so not clear on the connection there. Seems a bit too kiddie.

Anyone who watches a lot of team locker room videos know anything about trends or themes in there?
 
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CapitalsCupReality said:
You don’t need to watch LK to enjoy Shorsey.
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I agree with this. I think the fairest thing to say is that Letterkenny is way more esoteric. I personally loved it, but it has its weak moments/elements (I never took to the skids characters). It's not for everyone.

Shoresy is for hockey fans, speaks to the best things about hockey culture, does a pretty perfect job of immediately setting its own tone, with its own charms and rhythms and is endlessly quotable.

It's absolutely still a Keeso show with a lot of the same signature oddball humor, but if you love hockey, chances are you'll love this show. Each episode is about 20 minutes, and you'll either get it immediately after one or two installments or it's not for you.

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For the avatars, it's easy to reject a theme on spec, but some of the ones mentioned here have potential if we actually dig in.

  1. So the "bring out your dead!" idea is solid. The dude with the cart saying bring out your dead or whatever the quote is, then we toss guys in the cart... Rejected PLD, Abandoned Strome, Journeyman Chychrun, McMichael the Bust, Protas the Slow, Wilson the Goon, LT the Backup. Then you either do a resurrection type thing like someone suggested -- one's a terminator, one's a zombie, one's a phoenix, etc. -- or maybe like a Voltron thing where these guys were lesser on their own but together are an unstoppable force...

  2. Or maybe a WALL-E thing, where he putters around picking up everyone's trash, shovels it into his tummy, and pops out a kickass hockey team. That opening sequence of the movie is crazy long with clips of him finding trash he likes, might not be too hard to carve out a few...

  3. The Island of Misfit Toys thing... A few cliparts of broken toys labelled as castoff/undeveloped/misunderstood Caps players, then put 'em all in the frame, zoom out to satellite view of an island marked Misfit Toys, then erase that title and splash a Caps logo on it followed by quick clips of those Caps kicking ass...
Anyway, let's maybe drill down to some actual ideas cuz they land better than themes in the abstract.
 
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Does anyone have a list of the nicknames the players have for each other? Not our nicknames for them.
 
Maybe it's only meaningful to some long-time fans: Given that this is their 50th anniversary season, I was wondering whether there was any way to incorporate the team's woeful beginnings (i.e. 8-67-5) into the playoff avatars, but nothing compelling comes to mind.
 
Calicaps said:
I think the best ones, and surely the best ones we've done, involve totally non-hockey stuff worked into a hockey theme.
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Hear me out: Boy Bands



2025 Caps: New Edition (Protas, Dubois, Thompson, etc)

2025 Caps: NKOTB (Dubois, chychrun, duhaime, Roy, mangiapane, raddysh, Thompson)

2025 Caps: 38 degrees and rising (Sandin)

2025 Caps: Boyz II Men (mcmichael Protas lapierre)

2025 Caps feat. Wilson (like Hanson but they’re all Tom Wilson)



Can photoshop players’ faces into a pic of the band or one of their album covers. Or just add the band’s logo to a hockey pic
 
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