so some hockey players (the best ones) get hockey sticks made specifically for them that are then sold in stores (like the P29 ‘crosby’ curve by CCM)
post-cottage, pre-outting ilya would get one and they’d ask what number to use (thinking he’d say 81) but he asks them to put 1221.
shane would rather die than change his stick, so he never really paid attention to new sticks being made and ilya was super quiet abt it, teasing him saying ‘u want to steal my stick to beat me?’ which causes shane to just subconsciously ignore the posts about the stick when he does (briefly) scroll through social media.
one day post-shane-to-cens they’re at a sports shop together in ottawa (lost a football or something) and some kid is coming to the hockey sticks and asks the employee and his mum for the ‘1221 stick, so i can be as good as ilya rozanov!’ and shane and ilya go still.
they go over and say hi to the kid, because how could they not, but they leave without getting the football.
then they fuck about it
