Preface

Happy Birthday Shane
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at https://archiveofourown.org/works/84626661.

Rating:: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category:: Gen
Fandoms:: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Relationships:: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander & Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble & Ilya Rozanov
Characters:: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Luca Haas, Zane Boodram, Nick Chouinard, Holmberg (Game Changers), Hayden Pike, Jackie Pike, Troy Barrett
Additional Tags:: Social Media, Twitter, Fluff and Crack
Language:: English
Series:: Part 5 of Game Changers SocMed Crack Fics
Stats:: Published: 2026-05-10 Words: 1,596 Chapters: 1/1

Happy Birthday Shane

Summary

The Cens and fans take to twitter to wish Shane a happy birthday

Notes

Do I think that it is plausible that Shane and Ilya sneak off to the cottage for a sexcapade in the middle of a playoff series? Absolutely not. Do I think they deserve to? Of course.

Happy Birthday Shane

Ilya Rozanov-Hollander

@mr.shanehollander

Happy birthday to my beautiful smart talented sexy husband. Your present is at home but the whole team has agreed that your gift from all of us is we will destroy Metros and win you a fourth Stanley Cup. Montreal don't stand a chance now that Hayden Pike is their best player.

8:47 AM · 10 May 22

3.9k Retweets1.7k Quote Tweet12.1k Likes

Holly #35 💜🩷💙

Replying to @mr.shanehollander

Pike hating in his birthday tweet for Hayden's best friend is crazy work. I aspire to this level of haterism

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Hollanov is Real @hollzy<3

Replying to @holly.pike

'Hayden's best friend?' Excuse me that is Ilya's husband and he can wish Shane a happy birthday any way he wishes including hating on Hayden Pike

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Shane Whorellander @whorellander

Replying to @hollzy<3

Okay but was it also a bit of a backhanded compliment. Like Ilya obviously famously has a frenemyship with Hayden, but he still called him the best player on the Metros.

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Hollanov is Real @hollzy<3

Replying to @whorellander

Well yes because he famously hates the Metros more than Hayden for obvious reasons of husband abuse

Alex Stevens
@Alex32784

Ilya: Hayden is the best player on Montreal

Also Ilya: . Quoting a tweet of:

Ilya Rozanov-Hollander

How will Montreal possibly win now that their fifteenth best player is on injury reserve

10:17 AM · 10 May 22

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Alex Stevens @Alex32784

Replying to @Alex32784

Only Shane has left how can Hayden have jumped from fifteenth to first

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Ilya Rozanov-Hollander

Replying to @Alex32784

well you see it is quite simple, Shane is so many leagues ahead of the rest of his former team that the second highest rank they could fight for was fifteenth obviously. Shane is playing at MLH level, the rest are playing like they are in Mites

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Hayden Pike

@HaydenPike35

Happy Birthday Shane. Best friends for 11 years, teammates for a decade. Miss you every day buddy. - Montreal's ~~Fifteenth~~ Best Player

10:27 AM · 10 May 22

4.1k Retweets792 Quote Tweet8.7k Likes

Whatsapp chat with: Go Cens 🏇🏒

Received Message from:Bood
Is anyone going to tell Pike that his birthday message makes it seem like Shane is dead 10:31

Received Message from:Chouinard
Wait what did he say? 10:32

Received Message from:Hazy
'Miss you every day' oh man 10:34

Received Message from:Young
Okay what about him acknowledging Ilya's insult/compliment combo 10:34

Received Message from:Hazy
Surprised our esteemed captain hasn't weighed in yet 19:34

Received Message from:Bood
They went to their cottage there's probably not much signal out there 10:35

Received Message from:Hazy
They definitely have signal and internet. Shane was telling me about how he made sure it had internet connection when he had it built. 10:35

Received Message from:Holmberg
I think there's a much more likely explanation for why neither of them seem to be responding… 👀 10:36

Barbecuing with Bood
@boodsbbqs

Happy Birthday to the second best AC a team could ask for (after me of course 😉)

11:29 AM · 10 May 22

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Wyatt Hayes
@hazydays

Happy Birthday Shane, glad you're on our team now and not scoring against me.

11:32 AM · 10 May 22

1.7k Retweets4.8k Likes

Holmberg Hockey
@hockeyberg

Happy Birthday to Shane who is definitely alive and well despite what some messages may imply

11:43 AM · 10 May 22

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Received Message from:Bood
BERGY WHY DID YOU SAY THAT??? 12:01

Received Message from:Holmberg
What did I do? 12:01

Received Message from:Bood
'Happy Birthday to Shane who is definitely alive and well' that could not seem more like Shane is secretly dead if you had written 'Shane is secretly dead' 12:02

Received Message from:Holmberg
But I told them he's alive? 12:02

Received Message from:Bood
In the weirdest way possible 12:03

Received Message from:Bood
Back me up here guys 12:03

Received Message from:Hazy
Yeah sorry kid that makes it seem like he's dead 12:04

Received Message from:Holmberg
Okay I'll say something else 12:05

Received Message from:Bood
NO 12:05

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Please don’t 12:05

Received Message from:Troy
Okay guys Harris has asked me to tell you no one is allowed to post any more birthday messages on social media without running them by him first 12:10

Troy Barrett
@officialtroyb

Happy Birthday Shane have a great day and come back from your trip ready to take the playoffs by storm!

12:45 PM · 10 May 22

2.4k Retweets9.8k Likes

Ceraulean
@ceraulean

Happy Birthday to my close personal friend Shane Hollander, I hope he gets a cake and lots of presents and all his birthday wishes come true.

13:48 PM · 10 May 22

12 Retweets104 Likes

Ottawa Centaurs Official
@centaursofficial

Who's ready for a rematch? Ottawa vs Montreal playoff series resumes tomorrow with the series currently tied. A win for Ottawa would be the best birthday present for our Alternate Captain Shane Hollander.

13:57 PM · 10 May 22

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@Troy How is what Harris posted okay but we have to get our posts approved? 14:08

Received Message from:Troy
Maybe because it's Harris' job to promote the team and the games? 14:10

Luca Haas MLH
@ottawahaas

Happy Birthday Shane! 31 seems pretty old to me so that must mean Scott Hunter is prehistoric 🤔

14:23 PM · 10 May 22

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Received Message from:Troy
Luca! Haris did not approve that tweet 14:27

Received Message from:Luca 👶
Sorry… I was channeling my inner Ilya 14:27

Received Message from:Troy
Please don't… one Ilya is more than enough 14:27

Received Message from:Luca 👶
🫡 14:27

Nick Chouinard
@chouchouchou

The entire team has been put on probation and mandatory media training. I was given permission to post one pre-approved message so on behalf of myself and the remaining Centaurs Happy Birthday Shane, Montreal is going down

14:47 PM · 10 May 22

3.2k Retweets8.6k Likes

Fuck the Metros @hollanov2481

Replying to @chouchouchou

Something tells me that last bit was not sanctioned #fuckthemetros

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Lola went to Superhell
@destielschild

I don't know what my favourite part of today is: Ilya chirping Hayden in Shane's birthday post, Hayden responding in his own post, Hayden and Holmberg making it seem like Shane is dead, Luca insulting Scott Hunter for no reason, or the entire Cens roster getting forcibly banned from Twitter

16:21 PM · 10 May 22

539 Retweets1.3k Likes

Hollanov is Real @hollzy<3

Replying to @destielschild

To think that in years past we'd be lucky if any of the Metros other than Hayden and JJ remembered to wish Shane a happy birthday and now we have all of the Centaurs posting messages of love and well wishes. Nature is healing

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J.J. Boiziau
@JJBoiziau

Joyeaux Anniversaire Capitaine. Je t'aime. 💙

19:21 PM · 10 May 22

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Jackie Pike
@jackienotjacky

Happy Birthday to my husband's favourite person, my children's favourite uncle, and my favourite hockey player.

20:12 PM · 10 May 22

1.2k Retweets6.2k Likes

Hollanov is Real @hollzy<3

Replying to @jackienotjacky

Jackie Pike divorce your husband, marry me instead. He's out of your league

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Shane Whorellander @whorellander

Replying to @hollzy<3

And you aren't out of her league?

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Hollanov is Real @hollzy<3

Replying to @whorelander

I mean yes but I'm shooting my shot don't blow this for me.

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Shane Hollander

@hollander24

Thank you for all the birthday messages (I think?) Looking forward to my present from the team! Let's make it a joint effort though? I'll contribute too

09:43 PM · 10 May 22

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Ceraulean @ceraulean

Replying to @hollander24

Shane basically: Y'all's messages were kinda weird but I agree we're gonna destroy the M*tros. That's my bestie

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Sent Message: Luca I am so proud of you! I am making you player of the month 21:52

Received Message from:Chouinard
That's a thing? 21:52

Sent Message: It is now and it's Luca 21:52

Received Message from:Hazy
Dare we ask why? 21:53

Received Message from:Young
It's because he made fun of Hunter's age in his birthday tweet 21:53

Received Message from:Hazy
Didn't he also call Shane old? 22:01

Received Message from:Bood
Yes but it was kind of perfect because the only thing to override Ilya's 'must defend Shane's honour' mode is his 'must insult Scott Hunter' mode 22:05

Sent Message: This is not true. You are a liar and will never be player of the month if you act like this. 22:05

Received Message from:Bood
I bet Hunter's never been player of the month 22:06

Sent Message: Of course he hasn't he is nowhere near as talented as Luca, or Shane, or me 22:06

Received Message from:Bood
See? 22:06

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