Preface
the comments are a dumpster fire
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at https://archiveofourown.org/works/83083206.
- Rating:
- Teen And Up Audiences
- Archive Warning:
- No Archive Warnings Apply
- Category:
- M/M
- Fandom:
- Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
- Relationship:
- Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
- Characters:
- Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
- Additional Tags:
- Social Media, Situationship Era, Fluff, Crack
- Language:
- English
- Stats:
- Published: 2026-04-15 Words: 1,621 Chapters: 1/1
the comments are a dumpster fire
Summary
To the two users who flirt with hockey statistics in the comments of every post, please get married and leave the rest of us alone.
(Or: Five times Shane and Ilya ran into each other's burner accounts online.)
Notes
Timeline: The situationship era
Thanks to tuesdaycoming for beta reading!
the comments are a dumpster fire
Offsides Podcast Episode #303: Who has the best backhand in the MLH?
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@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
These podcasters are blind. Shane Hollander has scored more goals off his backhand than anyone else in the league.
@ARandomMetrosFan
You’re ignoring assists and shots on goal. If you actually watch the games, Scott Hunter has the strongest back hand in the league.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
Scott Hunter is ancient. His bones creak when he hits the puck. And his last five games? No goal.
@ARandomMetrosFan
His team won two of those games, asshole. It’s not about being selfish and flashy, it’s about getting the job done.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
Which team did New York lose to yesterday? I forget.
@ARandomMetrosFan
…Montreal.
Offsides Podcast Episode #305: Different players’ stick taping methods.
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@ARandomMetrosFan
Rozanov’s method is objectively wrong. It isn’t even a method, it’s just letting the chaos demons win.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
At least he didn’t take ten thousand years like Hollander redoing every single line he thought was slightly crooked.
@ARandomMetrosFan
Who is leading the league in goals again?
@PuckLife
You two argue in this comment section literally every week, get a room and make out already.
@ARandomMetrosFan
Gross. We’re just having a polite disagreement over hockey.
@PuckLife
This you? [screenshot of a compilation of @ARandomMetrosFan replies calling @SexyBostonHockeyMachine an asshole.]
@ARandomMetrosFan
Fuck off.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
ARandomMetrosFan can call me an asshole if he wishes, his hockey opinions are better than yours.
@ARandomMetrosFan
Um. Thank you?
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
Did you want to get that room? 😉
@ARandomMetrosFan
Go fuck yourself.
@TheSharpestCrayonBox
Order has been restored to the universe.
@TheIceShipWars
Uh, I high-key think they’re flirting at this point.
@ARandomMetrosFan
Wikipedia says flirting is attempting to increase intimacy and using double entendres. We are doing neither, so this is not flirting.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
🥵 I am now flirting. I have a puck I’d like to put in your net.
@ARandomMetrosFan
What?
Offsides Podcast Episode #308: An Interview with Hayden Pike!
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@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
LMAO, who asked for this? Could they not get a better player?
@ARandomMetrosFan
It got over a thousand views, asshole, clearly people are interested.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
That was just each of Hayden Pike’s children viewing the video once.
@ARandomMetrosFan
…
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
You laughed. Admit you laughed.
@ARandomMetrosFan
No
@TheIceShipWars
Someone please tell me I’m not the only one shipping these two.
@TheSharpestCrayonBox
They’re literally adorable? Someone needs to make a compilation of their interactions set to music.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
I ship it.
Offsides Podcast Episode #315: The Playoffs Begin!
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@ARandomMetrosFan
In your face, SexyBostonHockeyMachine! How does it feel to have your team knocked out in the first round?
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
Feels like the refs took a nap and didn’t call Hollander tripping Rozanov.
@ARandomMetrosFan
Fuck you, that wasn’t tripping. Rozanov fell over his own stick.
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
“Rule 57: Tripping– A player shall not place the stick, knee, foot, arm, hand or elbow in such a manner that causes his opponent to trip or fall.” [video clip of match]
@ARandomMetrosFan
Don’t throw the rulebook at me, I AM the rulebook: “Accidental trips which occur simultaneously with a completed play will not be penalized.”
@SexyBostonHockeyMachine
Funny, then how did Hollander bruise his foot if not from tripping Rozanov?
@ARandomMetrosFan
Wait, how did you know that
Lily
Weird question. Do you use SexyBostonHockeyMachine as your username on anything?
Ah. Were you watching the boring hockey podcast and noticed my comments? Yes, I flirted with ARandomMetrosFan, but that does not mean I have a type. I sleep with many people who are not Metros fans.
Rozanov. I’m ARandomMetrosFan
Oh.
Hi 💖
Fuck off
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r/hockey · Posted by u/stickyseason
Ilya Rozanov should not have been drafted first. Fight me.
Vincent Lemaire had proven himself in college hockey. He clearly should have been first, not third.
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HockeyisLife
Rozanov scored 67 goals his rookie year, but okay. Tell me more about how you know nothing about hockey.
SexiestHockeyMan
So did Shane Hollander. Was a tie. Of course, Rozanov has better style, breaking the tie. And Hollander’s face when he was drafted second was very funny, therefore it was good that Rozanov was drafted first.
HockeyisLife
Yeah, and what did Ilya Rozanov’s face look like when Shane Hollander won Rookie of the Year?
SexiestHockeyMan
☹️
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r/hockey · Posted by u/metrosletsgo
Bad night to be a Metros fan
I can’t believe Hollander missed that shot, someone send him back to the kiddie classes, my god.
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SexiestHockeyMan
The best player in the league missed a single shot, so sad for you. Shane Hollander carries that team on his back every night, maybe the Metro’s goalie should try stopping a puck every once in a while.
HockeyisLife
Drapeau is doing his best, Hollander was having an off night. ☹️ I was shocked he missed that shot, too.
SexiestHockeyMan
And? He missed one shot after already getting a goal and an assist that night? Hollander on an off night is still the best player in the league.
HockeyisLife
😭
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r/hockey · Posted by u/pucksindeep
To the two users who flirt with hockey statistics in the comments of every post, please get married and leave the rest of us alone.
You know who you are.
Sort by Controversial
HockeyisLife
What are you talking about? I haven’t seen anyone flirting in this subreddit.
SexiestHockeyMan
I am pretty sure they mean us.
HockeyisLife
No they don’t. And why would anyone complain about posting hockey statistics on a hockey subreddit? Numbers aren’t flirtation.
SexiestHockeyMan
…Just trying something. 1410
HockeyisLife
FML
bestofhockey Rozanov best shots compilation!
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MontrealWinsTheCupAgain Yawn. Wake me up when he catches up with Hollander.
BearofaHockeyPlayer Rozanov’s goals are so hot, I bet you loved them.
MontrealWinsTheCupAgain I didn’t even watch them! I fell asleep!
BearofaHockeyPlayer 💔
bestofhockey Hayden Pike Fails
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BearofaHockeyPlayer Hilarious!
MontrealWinsTheCupAgain More like rude. They should make one of these for Rozanov.
BearofaHockeyPlayer Impossible. Rozanov never fails.
bestofhockey Shane Hollander’s new ad campaign is the hottest one yet!
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BearofaHockeyPlayer Disagree, would be hotter if he was wearing his glasses.
MontrealWinsTheCupAgain The glasses he only wears to read in private? The ones no one else knows about?
BearofaHockeyPlayer LMAO, I knew you were watching my best shots compilations.
The Taming of the Hockey Player by HollanovLover
Fandom - Hockey RPF
Creator Chooses Not to Use Archive Warnings, Shane Hollander/Hayden Pike, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Alternate Universe: Mob Boss Shane Hollander, blackmail, dub con, Dom/sub, Shane Hollander is obsessed with Ilya Rozanov, Ilya Rozanov has a praise kink, Top Ilya Rozanov, Bottom Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov walks Shane Hollander like a dog
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 23
“Shane didn’t shed a single tear over Hayden’s death, because the Shayden ship was bullshit.” Really OOC for Shane Hollander. That’s his best friend, and he’s obsessing about some ship wars?
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HollanovLover on Chapter 23
Wow, a Shayden shipper in my comments section? Okay. Go write your own much worse fanfic.
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 23
Fuck off, you literally tagged this Shayden and then immediately broke them up and had Hayden brutally murdered because he was “too stupid to live.” I don’t ship Shayden, I just can’t stand character assassination.
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HollanovLover on Chapter 23
Don’t like, jump off a cliff. Not my problem
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hocketpucket on Chapter 28
Ilya Rozanov is such an over the top Mary Sue self insert in this fic. Ridiculous that he started as an “innocent, very sexy hockey player” and he keeps acquiring more things he’s best at. Come on.
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 28
Ilya Rozanov’s character is the best part of this fic, very true to life with how competent he is.
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hocketpucket on Chapter 28
Seriously? You liked when Ilya singlehandedly fought fifty hitmen to rescue Shane from the evil mob plot?
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 28
Yeah, that part was hot.
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ZamBOOM on Chapter 31
Shane Hollander is OOC here, he wouldn’t give Ilya a blowjob while on the run from assassins.
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 31
Yes, he would.
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 36
You said this story takes place in 2015, but then you have Ilya Rozanov scoring fifty-two goals when he scored fifty-three that year. Completely took me out of the story.
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HollanovLover on Chapter 36
I will bring Hayden Pike back from the dead if you give me your phone number.
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hocketpucket on Chapter 36
I a little bit ship it, not gonna lie.
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ShilyaHockey on Chapter 40
“the cluster of three freckles on Shane Hollander’s thigh” This is… specific.
Lily
Are you writing fanfic about us?
I need to defeat the Shayden shippers! They are wrong and everywhere!
Whatever. You already have my phone number, bring Hayden back from the dead.
Canadian Cook Off: Poutine Challenge Round
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@SecretAnonymousUsername24
Contestant five should be exiled for using measuring spoons that sloppily.
@Throwaway81
Is not a measuring spoon contest. Good chefs can measure with eyeballs.
@SecretAnonymousUsername24
Disgusting blasphemy. Recipes are meant to be followed exactly.
@Throwaway81
Yesterday, I make myself a broccoli cheese soup, and I substitute out the broccoli for chicken.
@SecretAnonymousUsername24
THEN IT ISN’T BROCCOLI CHEESE SOUP?
@Throwaway81
I used beef stock instead of chicken. I did not measure the paprika.
@SecretAnonymousUsername24
I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
@Throwaway81
I left a review on the recipe. Best broccoli cheese soup ever. Approved by SecretAnonymousUsername24
@SecretAnonymousUsername24
NO IT ISN’T
@CookeryCrockery
Would you two stop running up the comments section and just make out already?
@SecretAnonymousUsername24
Wait. Goddamnit, Lily is that you again?
@Throwaway81
Jane? Oh no. I might have a type.
Afterword
End Notes
Okay, I should add a list of all the work skins I put together to make this because I am not smart enough to have come up with all this coding from scratch!
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