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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/20 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Carter Vaughn, Scott Hunter (Game Changers), Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Teenagers, Teenagers, Teen Shane Hollander, teen Ilya Rozanov, POV Shane Hollander, Bullying, Homophobia, Summer Camp

Summary:

Dear Shane, Major League Hockey is proud to invite you to join the first ever U16 International Prospects Camp (U16-IPC). U16-IPC unites outstanding young athletes from all over the world to do what they do best: play excellent hockey, forge lifelong bonds, and have a lot of fun!

In July of 2006, Shane Hollander gets the chance to show once and for all he has what it takes to become a pro hockey player. Ten days that could make or break everything he's ever worked for. At his side, thirty teens with something to prove. Within him, extremely inconvenient feelings. The summer of a lifetime.

[smokingrozanov]

Funny as fuck that Ilya yelled “TELL PEOPLE!!!!” At Connors & then it was just him, Marley, & Ilya at the club. The rest of the team said NOSE GOES!!!!!!! Please get Rozanov to stop playing White Ferrari in the locker room btw

[ticklefighthockey]

having spent quite a bit of time with small children in the past couple years I can tell you that the pike children are NOT going to be gay-marrying their babysitters. that’s way too normal and convenient for the narrative. they’re marrying each other they’re marrying shane to ruby’s baby doll they’re marrying ilya to the cat they’re having a total screaming meltdown/fight/tantrum over who gets to wear the veil they’re putting the wedding ring in their mouth to keep it away from the other one and swallowing it by accident and derailing the entire afternoon with an emergency room visit except that once they’ve spent four hours in ER waiting shane finds the ring in his pocket because actually the kid just hid it and forgot and then when the idea that they might’ve swallowed it was suggested to them they convinced themselves that’s what had happened and became panicky about it

[actuallysara]

Nadine Bhabha, Sophie Nélisse and Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards | May 30, 2026

[gaygoatshane]

ilya promising children cash if they win knowing he's gonna let them win and then asking shane for money because he doesn't have his wallet. he wasn't even an annoying husband yet but he was letting shane know his potential

[darlingofdots]

In the background of the video clip, posted by a fan at the hotel breakfast just before Christmas 2018, Shane Hollander is talking on the phone. He looks tired but he's smiling, pushing scrambled eggs around his plate with a fork. "I saw, baby," he says. "No, definitely, no way that was slashing, I'm with you. You'll get them next time, though. Beautiful goal you got in the first, that was so fucking sexy. I can't wait to see you tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Love you."

Which leads to a bit of an uproar because omg Shane Hollander has a girlfriend?? who plays hockey???? that's so on brand for him like. okay who was playing last night and got a goal in the first period, we need to find the woman who has Shane Hollander crooning into his phone like a lovestruck teenager. and the consensus lands on an unsuspecting and entirely unrelated CWHL forward who has never even been in the same city as Shane but the Internet is running with the story and there's journalists harassing her and Shane has to get his agent to call her agent so he can apologise for this mess and she's like, dude, I know it's not your fault, but Shane feels so fucking bad about it, you know?

And unfortunately it doesn't really let up as quickly as they thought because it's right before Christmas and isn't this a great story, fucking Hallmark movie shit, so a very unimpressed Leila (her name is Leila) has to look a reporter in the eye after her team just played a really good fucking game of hockey and everybody wants to talk to her about some fucking guy, you know? so she looks him in the eye and says, no, I am not dating Shane Hollander, I have never dated Shane Hollander, I will never date Shane Hollander, I am literally a lesbian. I have a whole-ass girlfriend. She plays for the Blades.

And Shane Hollander is so consumed by jealousy he almost chokes.

[galecstatic]

thinking about the drunk-in-fucking-love ilya rozanov and gone-in-the fucking-sauce shane hollander after they said i love yous to each other in the cottage

[scunthotter]

I'm rereading heated rivalry the book and book Shane is so competitive that when they first hook up and Ilya swallows when Shane doesn't, Shane feels like Ilya beat him at gay blow jobs. #hashtagmyshane

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

ilya telling shane about irina and how they were best friends and he hung out with her all the time and he was her protector and he would skip school on her bad days to brush her hair and make sure she ate something even if it was just tea and she was an angel and you know shane is calculating how best to gently bring up to his husband that that doesn’t sound like it was very fair to child ilya without ilya reacting like a wild fucking animal

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

ilya comes back from therapy with galina like three months after this fight (of course it was a fight) and with the same candor as ashley padilla in then mom confession sketch goes i’m only going to say this once and i’m only going to say it if after i do you promise you will not react no talking no faces no nothing and shane’s on the couch reading like uh. what’s going on? and ilya goes what i have to tell you. Is that I think I was treated unfairly. By my mom. and of course shane makes a face and ilya is reacting like a wild fucking animal

[ticklefighthockey]

the real fantasy of heated rivalry isn’t that the hot cocky sex god will fall in love with the uptight socially awkward virgin… the real fantasy is that you can be sooooooo fucking annoying & avoidant & allergic to intimacy and someone who is securely attached will nevertheless doggedly pursue you, make you feel your feelings, and then marry you

[lesbianlandry]

i'm not gonna stop you this time

ankles - lucy dacus

[penandinkprincess]

laughing about the idea of shane who has a vasovagal response to needles because i know in my heart that he would believe in his ability to beat it

he would believe so hard

HE is the master of this situation, and he can BEAT IT

he is MIND OVER MATTERING

he is FOCUSED

he is DETERMINED

he is PASSING OUT IN THE PARKING LOT

[penandinkprincess]

shane comes to, sees The Face and just immediately slides the towel on his head down to cover his eyes

[puckwanger]

butch4butch hollanova any1?

[bipolar4autistic]

I am waiting, I have been waiting, I was born waiting.

[darlingofdots]

[hockey bro voice] does he. you know. play for ottawa?

[lesboabbee]

first drawing in a whileee wanted to practice shanebug. (he’s my muse) i feel like im closer and closer to capturing his likeness every time🤞 and i want to get more comfortable posting my art so ❤️

[hollanovcat]

happy pride month !!