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For me this gif gives peak Ilya looking at goalie!Shane vibes. I've been unwell since this happened.
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Stanley Cup Playoffs 2026: Round 3, Game 3 Carolina Hurricanes @ Montreal Canadiens | May 25, 2026
For me this gif gives peak Ilya looking at goalie!Shane vibes. I've been unwell since this happened.
jakub sweetie you’re doing amazing
I would die for him I would kill for him I will take his penalties
these sweet kisses before 'I love you'
#myshane couldn’t give less of a fuck about queer culture he just likes dick in his ass and he loves a Man. If you asked him about Stonewall he’d think it was the name of a tech startup.
#myilya is a fag and he loves it. him and harris watch queer movies once a month with Harris’ mom and they drink margaritas with little umbrellas in them.
Honestly I'm so glad I wasn't filmed being a stupid 19/20 yo uni student in Europe 15 years ago. I was puking in the streets, went to strip clubs with some frat guys (the beer was cheap there and women got free entrance), and was generally embarrassingly stupid. It was fine, I grew up to be a "responsible adult". I regret some choices, but that's how you learn.
Mack's and Dick's adventures in Bern are harmless by comparison. Let those guys live a little.
guys im sorry but shane hollander is not The Mom™️ of the centaurs. shane hollander is not nursing sick teammates back to health or sternly but lovingly reprimanding dumb rookies. he’s pissed off because theyre interfering with hockey and winning games. not to mention the general weirdness i find with giving grown adults in a friendly working relationship roles in a family. idk i love me some found family in the sense that youre able to choose who you want to be important figures in your life and who youll lean on and who youll let lean on you. but not in the fanfic brained (i say this with love) mom dad and kids. idk it feels heteronormative and like gender 2.0 yknow. anyways i digress shane is not a naturally nurturing guy and thats totally fine.
Shane "guys I want to win 7 cups, get your shit together" Hollander?? The rookies are terrified of him. He's a bitch most days when they aren't locked in.
The reason why the criticism of the NHL and its many flaws falls so flat in the game changers series is because Rachel Reid refuses to examine the role that race plays in your experience of hockey and hockey culture in Canada, which is honestly very in line with the Canadian, “well, we barely have racism up here!” even though people of color, especially Black and South Asian immigrants and First Nations people of color will tell you otherwise.
You cannot criticize and examine hockey culture without the foundational understanding of the role that whiteness plays in the toxicity of hockey culture.
When she said that Shane doesn’t carry grief or trauma it becomes glaringly obvious that she is missing one of the core problems of the toxicity of hockey culture in Canada. Whiteness is what enables this toxic and abusive behavior to continue. Yes, the NFL, NBA, and MLB all have them problems and issues and I’m not denying that, but those leagues all have players of color who would never be allowed to get away with what NHL players do.
I mean even when it comes to the rules of their sport, you think a 6’8, 300lb Black linebacker is getting a 5 minute penalty for shoving a ref or for getting in their face and yelling at them? You think a bunch of Black athletes could be living in billet homes in small towns with a reputation of violence against little white teenage girls and it would still be a national problem? Whiteness and racism is core and central to the problems in hockey. Look at Gavin McKenna, an indigenous man, being charged with a felony by State College police because they couldn’t wait to make an example out of him.
“Shane doesn’t carry grief or trauma.”
I’ve been reading hockey player memoirs and one of them is about an “average” player in the NHL. He was by no means a super star or prodigy, just very good at his sport and he talked about how, as a 6 or 7 year old child, he was already facing bullying by adults for how good he was at hockey. Parents of other players resented him so much for scoring they would tell their kids to target him and would scream obscenities. He was even flipped off as a child and humiliated by coaches because he was good at hockey. And this was a white man.
Add in the fact that Shane is Asian Canadian and hockey is a matter of national identity and lm willing to bet that the first time Shane remembers being called a slur, it was while he was playing hockey, and it was by an adult. Because if they already hate that a child is better at hockey than their child to the point of harassing them, how much worse does it get when the parent realizes that it is Asian child who is better at hockey than their kid? Shane would’ve been punished at every level of hockey starting at 5 years old for being good at the sport and being Asian because he would make white teammates, coaches, and fans feels “threatened” because for so long hockey has been centered around their whiteness.
Not only would Shane have been called names, parents would’ve been calling for their kids to “take him out” to take cheap shots and probably screaming slurs at Shane. And I’m willing to bet the coaches and refs did nothing unless the Hollanders threatened to sue, and not Yuna, David had to go down there and flash some legal might around and also the fact that he works for the treasury board and probably knows a thing or two about hockey Canada.
But Shane would’ve been punished for being not white and being good at hockey and it would’ve been severe because whiteness is the cornerstone of this sport.
Laila Edwards has talked about experiencing misogynoir as a hockey player and has, probably in the best interest of her PWHL draft and desire not to be harassed by racist trolls, not been as outspoken on vocal as she could be.
Look at Jason Robertson’s exclusion from the Olympics roster and the handwringing of hockey podcasters who “don’t get why the coaches made the decisions they made.” It’s because the foundation of this sport and its success is whiteness and white people feel threatened when people of color succeed so they have to knock them down a peg even to their own detriment because that’s how much they hate seeing people of color succeed.
Whiteness is the foundation of this sport and racism is so imbedded that parents will scream at their 10 year old to hit a six year old just because they’re brown and good at hockey
Like Hockey Canada is struggling to recruit and retain players of colors even as Canada gets more diverse because of the racism.
Even the big book about toxic hockey culture in Canada brushes over the racism even though whiteness and the excuses we make for white men ar front and center as to why hockey culture in Canada got to be the way it is.
You cannot address the issues in hockey Canada unless you also address the fact that the reason why it was allowed to get this bad is because of a whiteness and racism.
I have a hockey culture/time period question if you don’t mind! I know hazing has been an issue in almost all sports. I was wondering in your opinion would that have been something Shane/Ilya would have experienced or would their natural talent made them sort of “untouchable”. OR would that same talent make them even more of a target?
I’m imagining the added racialized element with Shane would put a bigger target on his back even if it was subconscious. Ilya’s father we see is incredibly important so I imagine that that might make him more insulted from harm but who knows.
Kinda fucked up, but also can you envision Shane or Ilya PARTICIPATING in hazing of others? More so in a team hierarchy sort of way. Maybe nothing awful but- just little things.
always up to talk abt hockey. yes, they would have been subject to hazing/other proliferated predatory/derogatory abuses/violations from kids AND adults in the hockey feeder system. i appreciate folks not wanting to get into it, but there is no untouchable guy in hockey. so yes, the latter. skill makes a target bc everyone wants to be the best or get one over on the best.
cannot find the link rn, but there's a good bit in a sid cr*sby retrospective that highlights his childhood tournaments, & how he was already so obviously better than the other kids, that he had to stop wearing his jersey in between games in the arenas bc parents/adults would see him and start harassing him for their child's sake; and they targeted him w deliberate attempts to injury/maim.
that's just a small bit of what's available publicly to see.
that's the culture.
yes, it would be worse with shane. exceptionally. with shane there's always gonna be overt (NOT subconscious) racist & violent white capitalist hegemony thinking he is not 'worth enough or white enough' to take on as a part of their for-profit elite white men's club. kids emulate and reflect this, to violently attack players of color.
players today in the league deal with this in a spectrum: if they fight/push back against racist comments/literally having things thrown at them, they are labelled a troublemaker (nazem k*dri). if they make comments pointing out that players are required to assimilate w league culture and not rock the boat, they are punished publicly (zayne p*rekh). if they make a young, dumb mistake, local law enforcement will move to try and end their career, instead of supporting them like white players through an entire SA trial (gavin mck*nna). IF they do none of the above and they break records and churn out killer point totals per season and rarely fight, (and even wear a police jersey on walk-in lmfuckingao) they will still somehow not the be the 'right(white) kind of player' to publicly commend (jason r*bertson).¹
so shane is in a three prong lock of: conformity to white masculinity, lack of bodily/identity autonomy, and systemic state-sanctioned racism and classism.
In Unrivaled, I’m gonna need Ilya ‘Lover Boy’ Rozanov to be completely unhinged when it comes to Shane. For over 10 years he had to be cool, calm and collected in public. They are now out, on the same team and that is his HUSBAND. I want Ilya doing press and constantly saying “my husband” and Shane just rolling his eyes. I want the other Centaurs players teasing their captain for being so in love. When assholes try to chirp on the ice, I want Ilya making sure people keep his husband’s name out their mf’n mouths. I want Ilya finding ways to bring up Shane in conversation so he can call him “my husband”. llya’s social media bio should read “#81 Shane Hollander’s Husband. I play hockey sometimes too.” Let Ilya love his man unabashedly because he and Shane fought so hard for this-and they finally got it. Let Ilya “my man my man my man” everyone to death 😭😭😭😭
I want to see Ilya turn into Scott Moir 😂😂
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The absolutely blatant way HR has the commentators reflect the current states of Ilya and Shane tickles me.
Commentator after their very first game against each other refers to the Canadian team as still finding their identity, and how Shane (as a hockey player of course) couldn't get past Russia's defense but Ilya (as a hockey player of course stop asking) was consistently able to get past Canada's defenses? Somewhere out there Rachel and Jacob are laughing tears into their coffee.
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It occurs to me: we've seen a lot of Essek Thelyss over the course of the animated series, but I think this episode was the first time we've actually seen the Shadowhand
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Only my lack of planning and terrible footwear stopped me from exploring an actual vergessen Sanatorium in the woods outside Zagreb today. Next time I'll come in pants and better shoes!