I’ll have to do my research and maybe watch the show again, so call me out if I’m wrong, but do Ilya and Shane win the cup back-to-back. So Ilya then Shane. This is interesting to me because I see Shane as a very obsessive character, not in a bad way, but someone who gets tunnel vision when it comes to his goals. In this scenario, where Ilya-then-Shane for the cup, I imagine Shane seated with all the Metros watching Rozanov lift the cup and he immediately is plotting in his head that they need to get to work. He goes to his cottage, rest and recovers, and then comes back to the Bell Center with the most inhumane drills known to man.
(I am aware Captains don’t decide drills but in this universe, Shane does. #myshane wants his name etched beside Ilya forever because if at least this doesn’t work out and they have no keepsakes, there exists a ring in the Hockey Museum that reads Ilya Rozanov and perfectly on the next column in a year, Shane Hollander (C) )
All the Metros are rediscovering their anatomy and someone pulled a muscle in a direction it’s never been before. Shane maintains a championship mindset and they win their first cup. Obviously the Metros are happy about this and they think they are good to rest. But it’s Shane, obsessive demon, he says we are running this back and they do it again. Two cups. Ilya won one but Shane has two. It satisfies something in him to know he can one-up Ilya. He can condition himself for survival because of who he is and he can win.
This, however, has the inherent consequence that Shane burns out trying to go three for three. The Metros take injuries, the teams get smarter and kill their power plays/penalties. Someone drives Shane hard into the barriers. He gets faster, they can never catch him again. Someone slashes him and the referee doesn’t see it/call it. He makes sure to hattrick in their city to the adoring boos of the stadium. He’s viscous but eventually, the Metros aren’t well oiled enough, people retire and he has to rebuild, relearn and grow his Metros to the point of perfection again.
All-Stars. Ilya goes first. He scores well on the accuracy and speed. He’s good but Shane shaves off less than 10 seconds on his record. Ilya knows what Shane is doing and he can’t fault Shane for it. If you’re good at something, you want to be the best. If it’s hockey, you want to be Shane MF Hollander. When Shane wins that third cup, it almost kills him, added with his ED, they quester him to the cottage and Yuna and David take shifts nursing him to functional.
He watches Ilya pull out the Rozanov. He practices when no one is in the rink with him. He does it again and again. Someone, J.J, asks what he is doing during practice and he says nothing, just messing around with trick shots. He gets out his book, he watches almost 20 hours of Ilya and the Rozanov. He loses sleep, he turns over Ilya’s wrist to see if there are signs overexertion from hockey. He can’t tell, they look like hands. He figures it out. He does it to Ilya’s bemusement and protests.
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