![]() ![]() ![]() McDonald, a Manitoba native, started playing hockey when he was 3 or 4. I'm there to make sure I can film them when they are doing things." Lawsy's hockey, school journey "They're the ones playing college hockey, they're coming off the ice and going to practice and everything or walking to the rink. "The guys are on the ice," McDonald said. McDonald makes a video plan for each day and does the majority of the filming - mainly because he likes to, but also because he graduated last May. The group aims to post between five and seven TikToks a week. And they're always throwing ideas around. Everything to do with that is always good memories." "Remembering the mess ups, the mistakes and which guys were getting bugged or chirped by the rest of the guys as we were filming. "Every video, I kind of vividly remember how it all went down while we were filming it," he said. One of McDonald's all-time favorites? When the guys recreated a scene from "The Mighty Ducks," where they roller skated around town, picking up players from different locations. "There's a lot of different kinds of things we do and the central thing is just having fun and good vibes and who we are, really," McDonald said. They've done TikTok trends, like popular dances or audio clips that they can relate to their sport roller skating lip-synching choosing celebrity lookalikes game-day superstitions competitions, such as who's the fastest skater and more. The videos give a laid-back look into the team, their friendships and all of the goofiness that ensues. The group account features McDonald (Lawsy), Blake, Cudmore (Cuddy), Yelle, Jordan Martin (Jmarts), Austin Friesen (Frizz), David Kaplan (Kappy), Jonny Pace (Pacer), Troy MacTavish (Taver) and Coltyn Bates (Batsey). "It gave me the click of like, 'Oh, wow, for some reason having these guys and the concept that we're hockey players and playing college hockey, it's gonna work.' "īefore the end of the month, The Hockey Guys account was created. 13 really got a lot of traction and blew up," he said. "For some reason this video we did on Oct. "There was no real true purpose to it besides videos that I liked and things that I was passionate about," he said.Ībout a year later, he posted a video of himself and hockey friends Will Blake, Levi Cudmore and Martan Yelle each lip-synching a line from Aly & AJ's "Potential Breakup Song" - a popular TikTok trend at the time. McDonald started getting into making TikTok content in October 2019 under the username That account now has 172,600 followers and 6.3 million likes. 21, it had 1.3 million followers and 34 million likes. Whenever he'd include his hockey buddies in the videos, he noticed the posts would always perform well, garnering thousands of views and likes. So, he decided to launch a group account called did good right off the bat and kept rolling ever since then," he said.Īs of Feb. I want to make videos and I want to show people what it's like." ![]() "I just figured, I'm doing something kind of interesting with my life right now. "I kind of just realized that nobody in the space was doing it," he said. In October 2019, Lawson McDonald started sharing his life as a college hockey player at Superior on TikTok, from locker room pranks to hitting the ice with his teammates. Members of the University of Wisconsin-Superior men's hockey team do all of these things and more - while being the stars of The Hockey Guys, a popular TikTok account. Hockey practice, games, working out, classes, homework and everything else that goes along with being a student athlete. ![]()
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