A new season of Shoresy is on its way

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Shoresy Season 4 to premiere next week

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It is now less than one week from the premiere of the new season of the hit comedy series Shoresy – which is filmed in Greater Sudbury, Ont.

Over the first three seasons, viewers have watched the struggling, fictional senior men’s hockey team’s meteoric rise from underdogs trying to keep their club afloat to national champions.

Now, season four will see the Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs encounter the distractions of the off-season and enjoying the summer months in beautiful and scenic northern Ontario.

“Hockey players always find trouble in the off-season,” said showrunners in the most recent trailer.

“You know what Sudbury is like in the summer.”

Last August, CTV News sat down with the cast while they were filling in Sudbury.

Ryan McDonell, who plays the character Michaels on the show, said this season the show is focusing on the city.

“I think we’re really like putting a magnifying glass on the actual city of Sudbury,” he said.

“It’s a character within the show – so, yeah, it’s gonna be good.”

There are several fresh young faces in the new season as well – with four men joining the main cast.

Eric Fleising is playing one of the new characters, Caleb a goalie heading into the OHL.

“I’m one of four new Lakers. It’s a AAA Sudbury team that joins this season and next year they’re all playing for the OHL,” he said.

“They have a bit of a buddy system going with the bulldogs.”

Two of the new members of the cast have local connections.

Chase Coughlan, who is playing Mason, currently plays in the OHL for the Sudbury Wolves.

“I was just working out one day and one of my old trainers, he’s a hockey stunt coordinator on Shoresy and he reached out to me and told me there’s an audition,” he said.

“He was like ‘yeah, you’d be great for the role.’”

Despite his real-life hockey skills, the Toronto native told CTV News that he doesn’t get to show them off on screen – at least not this season.

The third-year veteran of the Wolves also said he has no intention of quitting his day job despite his new acting gig.

Another member of the Lakers joining up with the Bulldogs is Carter, played by Sudbury native Xander Roy.

Roy is a business finance student at Cambrian College.

He told CTV News it was “really cool” to have so many pro and former pro hockey players involved in the show.

“One of our first days on set, Jordan Nolan, (an) ex-LA player, showed us one of his Stanley Cup champion rings,” said Roy.

“It’s the first time I got to see one of those – it was really, really cool.”

When asked what fans can expect from the new season, series regular Keilani Rose, who plays one of the Bulldog’s owner’s sidekicks Miigwan, said she got to put her dance background to work.

“I get to choreograph a dance number for the boys,” said Rose.

“We get to see them moving and grooving to impress somebody.”

She described the boys dancing as “stellar” and having “good range.”

“I feel like, but I feel like where they really, really deliver is in their confidence,” said Rose.

You can WATCH the Sudbury Bulldogs' quest to never lose again on CRAVE.

The new season of Shoresy premieres with two episodes on Jan. 24 with the remaining four episodes releasing one at a time the following Fridays.

Fans will also have another season to look forward to after these six episodes as the show was renewed earlier this month for a fifth season.

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