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call me what you like | 20s

[hockeyking]

I don't even do anything but if you want to follow someone that posts like once a week is a writer that doesn't write and an artist that doesn't draw then is this the blog for you.

actually now that i think about it i do have something to offer, I've been slowly but surely building up the hollanov library of alexandria in my google bookmarks and I love love love giving recs. feel free to ask for some @ anyone that sees this

[userilyarozanov]

I love you. Good job. I love you. ILYA ROZANOV HEATED RIVALRY (2025 - ) ▸1x03, hunter

[swagsmeister]

the dua lipa of it all

[shillanov]

happy birthday to my bisexual drama queen, biggest fake idgafer, sensitive caring boy, irina rozanova’s pride and joy, funniest comedian in the league, hockey’s rat king and supreme chirper ilya rozanov. i love you my captain.

[scunthotter]

@shillanov 's post about frat boy Ilya, but Shane is not the English 101 classmate, Shane has alway been meant to be a professional hockey player.

So imagine Shane goes to Boston in the draft (cause Ilya wasn't there) and the other rookies invite him to some house party which is being thrown by Ilya's frat. And they are just both fascinated by each other as soon as they meet.

For Shane Ilya is larger than life, talking to him is so easy and fun, he's so fucking hot and the drunker he gets the more handsy he gets, he's just really fucking cool, also Shane watches the local college hockey when he has time and Ilya is really really good for someone at his level.

Ilya hides it but he's starstruck a little bit that professional hockey players (Shane Motherfucking Hollander!!!!) are at his house party. But then he finds out that he actually really vibes with Shane and loves poking at him and watching him get all rumpled and flustered but playing along and chirping back.

He's definitely just being a good host when he follows Shane around the party, there's a point where he and Shane get into the type of intense soul baring hour long conversation that you only have while very drunk at a houseparty. Where Shane reveals he's seen Ilya's college team play and is asking why Ilya chose not to be drafted and Ilya talking about joining the mlh after he finishes his degree.

Shane gets adopted by the frat which loves hanging out with a professional athlete and he's very comfortable in that environment (toxic masculinity, aggressively homosocial, feels like a locker room). Also he and Ilya are quickly become best friends (and if they occasionally make out and hook up that's only the alcohol).

[sosaneitsinsane]

when it's so serious you have to break out vivaldi... again

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[ticklefighthockey]

Hi, sorry to bother, I'm not really active on tumblr so idk who's who but you seemed knowledgeable in both real life hockey and Heated Rivalry. I'm curious if you think Sidney Crosby's popularity/fame would be as big as it is today if he hadn't scored the golden goal in the Vancouver Olympics? I guess the main reason I'm curious is that I'm trying to figure out how famous Shane would be and I'm using Crosby as a baseline. Obviously they're not totally comparable, but accomplishments are the easiest thing for me to think about, and I wanted to get a take from people who knows about hockey. Anyways, I've been having a fun time scrolling through your posts and I recently read "anything that touches" and I was very sad about it ❤️❤️

hello! hmm I might defer to sid expert @rimouskis here I feel like she has a firmer grasp on the evolution of the sidney crosby mythology. I do think the golden goal probably cemented his (canadian) legacy in a way that just winning cups for his (american) team might not have? but I also feel like he’s always had that “the next one” golden boy mythos and he’s lived up to the hype and then some. I also know that he and ovi are generally credited with “saving” the nhl ie sparking a massive resurgence of interest in the league at a moment where things felt pretty precarious.

[rimouskis]

#that last bit is something that didn’t get folded into heated rivalry at all #like neither shane nor ilya feel any sense of responsibility to the league itself or like #for saving the sport or whatever #if you are curious about what shane’s everyday experience of fame might be like #I wonder if connor mcdavid is a closer parallel #just in terms of what it’s like to be a canadian superstar drafted by a canadian team and expected to save the franchise #and dealing with like. idk. being in an intense hockey market

good tags jes, I felt they had to be included...

this question is hard in the sense that the cumulative build of sidney crosby and all that's happened over his career is what makes him sidney crosby; what if he hadn't scored the golden goal? what if he hadn't won the cup three times? what if he hadn't won until he was nearly 30? hypotheticals spin impossibilities, so there's no good true answer—we'll just never know. he is who he is because that's who he is etc. etc., he isn't a composite of parts but one whole story and that story isn't one where he didn't score the goal, so on so forth

that being said, I agree with jes parsing "canadian legacy" from hockey legacy; the golden goal means ten billion times less to the american/international hockey market than what it means to canada and its national-identity-through-sports. it's what made sid akin to a god in canada, but canada is not the rest of the world, and his fame in the rest of the world is middling compared to a lot of other professional athletes.

was sid's fame in canada impacted by the golden goal? absolutely. was sid already much more famous in canada than he was in the US/rest of the world? certainly.

I think there's a component missing here: shane plays for a canadian team (a very storied one, no less, if we're saying montreal). sid plays for an american team. I cannot describe to you how much more insane canada would be about sid if he played for montreal (insane in a bad or good way? who's to say... they'd be more reverent and also more critical, I think. I blanch at the thought of sid playing for toronto).

sid would be less famous in america if he played for a canadian team, and more famous in canada (...maybe? or the fame would be more intense? hypotheticals hypotheticals...). canada already cares about hockey, more than most americans can understand, barring people from the south whose towns are run by their football programs.

in the heated rivalry universe, I do not think americans-who-don't-like-hockey care very much about shane.

when I was 14 and didn't care about hockey, I watched sidney crosby score the golden goal, completely not understanding who he was, probably disappointed that america (my country) had lost, and didn't really think about him again until a webcomic artist namedropped him half a decade later. I might have been able to recognize his name as a hockey player, but that's it. I wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup, and that was him as the most famous active hockey player in the world.

tl;dr I think the question is inherently hard to answer, and I think "canadian fame" vs. "american fame" or "international fame" are different things, and I think what matters more, in a sense, is which country shane plays in when it comes to both types of fame

ah and one last aside: I didn't talk a lot about McDavid here because frankly I don't know a lot about his narratives, but he doesn't Matter to canada in the same way sid does. why? because he hasn't won. he's great. he's impressive. he matters a hell of a lot to hockey the sport and to edmonton. but has he transcended like sid has into a symbol of national identity? no, because you need hardware to do that

[annabelle--cane]

sometimes someone I follow falls victim to severe Character delirium to the point where they stop even saying the character's name and just refer to them by an epithet like some kind of malevolent entity whom they don't wish to accidentally summon, so if the sickness sets in quickly enough and I don't pay close attention for a week I'm just Never going to figure Who this bastard haunting my friend Actually Is. and I'll spend months scrolling my dash occasionally seeing appeals to "that fucking horse" or "my evil grub."

[hockeyking]

someone in the media really looked at these two and said they should hate each other. could not be me!

[gaygoatshane]

draft age accurate shane hollander

[hockeyking]

similarly draft age accurate ilya rozanov

[peachyjude]

no bc it is crucial to me that if ilya is shane’s baby, shane is ilya’s sweetheart. not just like. figuratively, but as an endearment too. it’s crucial to me that ilya is calling him sweetheart so often shane responds to it faster than his own name, but only in private. i’ll pick up anya from the groomer’s sweetheart, don’t worry. yes, sweetheart, i put in laundry. sweetheart, come here, look at this video. he never says it in front of anyone else though, and if he does, it’s discreetly, directly into shane’s ear, always tacked on the end of a question meant just for him. what did he say, sweetheart? can we leave in ten, sweetheart? do you need me, sweetheart?

and well. yes. yes.

[peachyjude]

no bc it is crucial to me that if ilya is shane’s baby, shane is ilya’s sweetheart. not just like. figuratively, but as an endearment too. it’s crucial to me that ilya is calling him sweetheart so often shane responds to it faster than his own name, but only in private. i’ll pick up anya from the groomer’s sweetheart, don’t worry. yes, sweetheart, i put in laundry. sweetheart, come here, look at this video. he never says it in front of anyone else though, and if he does, it’s discreetly, directly into shane’s ear, always tacked on the end of a question meant just for him. what did he say, sweetheart? can we leave in ten, sweetheart? do you need me, sweetheart?

and well. yes. yes.

[ilyas-left-nut]

and i’m supposed to be normal about this

[hutsonwoolyums]

[aslongasitsblack]

kristen stewart at hooters but its pre-out shane with like volunteer firefighters at the metros stadium

[hockeyking]

miilya and shanii spent like 20 minutes sitting on a bench with little flowers floating around their heads talking about "something that's a bit embarrassing" and when they finally went their separate ways miilya thought he "hadn't expressed himself very well when talking with shanii" while shanii was at his house so pissed off he kept shouting asshole over and over.

[hockeyking]

they've only existed for an hour and they're already great friends 🙏 also they like doing yoga together