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Lily Has Questions, Jane Does Not Have Answers by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-08-16
Most days, Shane loved the unhinged text messages he would get from Ilya Rozanov. Random streams of consciousness, hilarious insults about other hockey players, critiques of games, excitement over the dogs he would meet on his daily runs.
But some days, the messages were so completely off the rails that Shane wanted to strangle him.
Today was one of those days.
February 18
Lily
Are you gay?- Language:
- English
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- 2,186
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #90654281
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summer cicadas sing by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-14
Just over four years after a zombie virus destroys the world as he knows it, twenty-five year old Ilya Rozanov is so rattled by trauma and grief that even when he's found a community to call home, he keeps everyone at an arm’s length. That is, until Shane Hollander shows up looking like death itself.
A story about the end of the world, and how to pick up the pieces.
- Language:
- English
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- 33,040
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 1
- AO3:
- #90133906
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Fire on Fire by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-12
In Vegas, after the MLH awards, Shane asks to go bare and Ilya goes along with it. Afterwards, Shane, who had realized how he felt about Ilya during those 6 months of radio silence, tries to tell Ilya. Ilya, scared and caught off guard, breaks Shane's heart and tells him to leave.
A month later, Shane finds out he's pregnant. He decides to keep it. He tells the Voyageurs. It goes how you'd expect. They drop him. But he has his baby. While he focuses on keeping his body healthy for the baby, Yuna focuses on finding a team that will take him and give him what he wants for the end of the pregnancy. Only one team will - The Boston Bears.
Things are looking up for Shane. Until he loses everything...again. His world falls apart in the span of a few hours. Again. His mind can't take it and he breaks.
A little over a year after Ilya broke Shane's heart, Shane starts a new season as a newly minted Boston Bear. Will he be able to play with the man that broke his heart and act like nothing happened? Will Ilya?
- Language:
- English
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- 69,369
- Chapters:
- 30/30
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87588446
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Turn The Other Cheek by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-11
“I turned the other cheek every fucking time. I still got tossed on my ass the second I went too far over the line, and threatened by the commissioner, and told to kill myself on just about every social media platform because my nightmare that I’d get outed came true. And you, after everything you did, got to come out to a supportive team and fans, get a slap on the wrist, and have your happy fucking ending.”
Or:
An exploration of Shane Hollander's struggle against racism and homophobia in hockey, and how others come to understand it
- Part 1 of Shane Hollander Deserves The World
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,365
- Chapters:
- 4/5
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- 1
- AO3:
- #84085051
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it's the monster hiding under your bed by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-09
Shane’s ex-girlfriends keep coming out as queer. He’s trying to be supportive, he really is, okay? Listen, he’s an ally! But it’s sort of becoming a problem. For pretty obvious reasons, because people are definitely starting to notice—Ilya most of all.
(AKA, I give Shane the most absurd queer community and convoluted coming-of-age journey of all time and it still somehow gradually makes things better in the long run.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,501
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #90071081
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you will never fade from my soul (numquam ex anima effluebis) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-05
--or, Shane has only been in love with one person and he'll never stop, even if it hurts
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- English
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- 14,831
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- 4/6
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- 1
- AO3:
- #84824281
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Moving to Blüdhaven had been the chance for Shane Hollander to get his fresh start: he was out of Gotham and New York, and all the pressure that the expectations of those places held for him; he had all the good that he could do, both with an identity formed under a new mask and his public persona; he had the opportunity to coach gymnastics again for the love of it; and he had Ilya Rozanov. But the thing with being a hero is that the past never rests, and Nightwing’s greatest nemesis has a grudge that Shane can’t shake.
or - Shane Hollander is Nightwing, gymnastics coaching is the side gig he shares with Ilya Rozanov, and Deathstroke is the inevitable end of it all.
- Part 4 of AUgust 2026
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- English
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- 8,556
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #88243106
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Shane and Luke were highschool sweethearts, they had plans to go into the NHL together, play alongside each other, start to really plan their future as a couple.
But when an injury crushes Shane's only dream, he's forced to sit back and watch as his boyfriend goes onto do everything that should've been his.
Everything except beating the best player in the entire NHL league.
Or,
Shane had grown tired of his boyfriend, Ilya Rozanov is more than happy to give him an upgrade.
- Language:
- English
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- 28,748
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #89808111
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It occurs to Shane, distantly, that he’ll have to wear the defaced jersey and his sweaty uniform pants if he wants to leave the locker room. He really, really wants to leave the locker room.
His feet won’t move, though, like the bottom half of his body is suddenly made of lead, while the rest of him twists uncontrollably in the wind. His head feels like it’s floating off into outer space.
Traitor.
Things get worse for Shane after he and Ilya get outed to the world. Ilya and the Centaurs help soften the blow.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,536
- Chapters:
- 6/?
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- 1
- AO3:
- #79700046
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before and between by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-07-29
a collection of somewhat linear bonus scenes not previously included in "i'll believe in anything"
- Part 2 of the cursed cottage
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- English
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- 23,337
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #89467561
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you're an asshole, afterall by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-28
Ilya’s obviously aware that there’s something up with Shane, okay? No one who spent their formative years (as well as their twenties and thirties) obsessively watching Shane Hollander Best Goal YouTube clips could glimpse what was going on with the Metros last season and think that nothing had changed. He asked and asked over the summer months, and Shane denied and denied and denied to the point where Ilya had to wonder if Shane knew there was something up with himself. But that was silly. Of course Shane knew.
Ilya likes to think he’s the Shane Hollander whisperer. He knows about Shane’s dormant exhibitionism kink and how to trigger it without triggering what neither of them like to call an anxiety attack. He knows the difference between Shane's hungry stomach grumbles and impending-stomach-ache stomach grumbles. There’s probably not a freckle on Shane’s body Ilya hasn’t licked before, if he’s being honest. That’s not really impressive or a key to revealing Shane’s psyche or anything, but it’s probably worth mentioning.
On Shane Hollander's transfer to the Ottawa Centaurs, and everything he left behind.
- Part 2 of playing it any way i want
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- English
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- 6,505
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #89366911
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Shane gets approximately ten minutes of feeling blissful and content after Ilya Rozanov leaves his apartment-
-and then he has to bolt to the bathroom to get ill with a violence he hasn’t experienced since he was still conditioning for the season as a rookie.
In the aftermath, he runs a cold washcloth over his face while swishing his mouth out and tries to convince himself that it had to have just been something he ate.
He wonders if he should text Rozanov and give him a warning, but having to send a, “Thanks for taking my virginity, by the way I just puked my guts up and you might have caught whatever this is from me” doesn’t really seem like it’s a very sexy follow-up text to get from someone. As a “congrats on getting fucked” present to himself in honor of the occasion, he decides he’ll chalk it up to the sudden release of nerves and only send the text if it lasts past the night.
(shane is EXTREMELY sensitive to nicotine) (the problem with this? he isn't actually aware of it and thus doesn't understand why fucking ilya rozanov sometimes makes him sick afterwards)
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- 1/1
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- AO3:
- #89127991
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Shane makes a drunken mistake in the name of protecting his carefully constructed closet, his life explodes in spectacular fashion. Suddenly faced with an unplanned pregnancy, a movie-star girlfriend, and a team of publicists convinced that "devoted family man" is a better headline than "gay hockey player," Shane commits himself to a future that looks perfect on paper. The only problem is that his heart still belongs to Ilya Rozanov—the man he left behind a few months earlier with a broken heart, several unresolved feelings, and a belly button full of cum.
Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast of ridiculous characters—including the endlessly supportive Rose, a delightfully meddling book club of old biddies who adopt Ilya as one of their own, and a sweet baby who changes all of their lives—this is a funny, emotional story about parenthood, forgiveness, grief, healing, and two grown men who could have avoided most of their problems by having one honest fucking conversation.
or- Shane knocks up Rose, almost dies, and he and Ilya find their way back to each other the way they always do...only now they have an adorable baby to love too.
- Part 1 of Just Pretend
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- English
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- 203,831
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- 21/21
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- 1
- AO3:
- #86610151
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Shane and Ilya are 18 and counting down to the NHL draft while playing for the same private school hockey program. Until Shane realizes he needs to take a pregnancy test behind his family’s back.
- Part 2 of Riding in Cars
- Language:
- English
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- 101,767
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- 32/32
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- 1
- AO3:
- #78987876
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Since Shane Hollander’s painful public outing, things clearly haven’t been right with the Voyageurs. Still, everyone is shocked when Shane gets himself traded to the Ottawa Centaurs.
Shane can’t completely explain it, to be honest, not in a way anyone else understands. He just knows this: he lost Ilya, lost the Voyageurs, lost his privacy and his choice. But hockey is still the love of Shane’s life. And he’s not going to lose that, too.
- Part 2 of Shane Hollander's Centaurs
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- English
- Words:
- 40,460
- Chapters:
- 10/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81700356
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Mr. Answer Man by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-20
In room 1410, Ilya Rozanov is ready to walk out the door after successfully getting his 19 year old hockey rival into bed. He knew how to make this moment happen and he knows what they have to be to each other now that it's over. But as he turns the doorknob to leave, he's stopped with questions he never expected. And giving Shane Hollander what he needs in that moment will change everything.
I note which chapters are SFW vs NFSW, because many of you said knowing meant the difference between reading this on your lunch break or having to wait. (Thank you for wanting to read my work that much.)
Covers the first two years of their rookie seasons (which is mostly skipped over in the show/books). Canon divergent from the first hookup seen in HR s01ep01. Most things are from the show but the timeline is a mix of both; Hunter and Marleau are aged up per the show instead of as young as they are in the books. (Also, Shane and Ilya don't wait *two years*, they stick to the book timeline. IYKYK.)
Please note this will the first in a series; you can subscribe to the whole series as well so you don't miss anything :)
- Language:
- English
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- 166,869
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81866486
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“Ah.”
“‘Ah’,” Ilya repeats, giving him a look before he looks back to the tidily stacked frozen mouse packages in the freezer and makes a face as a little badly-hidden shudder moves through him. “Why the fuck do you have mice in your freezer, Shane? You are doing serial killer shit now? This is why you have cottage in the middle of nowhere? For serial killer things?”
“It’s for Spaghetti,” Shane says.
Ilya gives him an absolutely horrified look at that and turns a little green, which makes him remember that Spaghetti isn’t just his snake's name.
“Not food!” He rushes to explain. “Not food spaghetti! Snake Spaghetti!”
“What the fuck are you even saying right now,” Ilya says, looking honestly a little concerned that Shane might have something going wrong in his head.
(Distancing himself from almost twenty years of owning a snake, Shane can indeed see why this situation might be a little alarming for someone on the outside looking in.)
(It also clues him in to the fact that maybe it’s not just Spaghetti who should have gotten a little adjustment period.)
(in which i give shane allergies AND a snake)
- Language:
- English
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #88695836
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After a revealing chat with Scott and Kip, Shane faces the fact that his team treats him like shit. Set during the 2017-2018 season, the one right after Hollanov's first trip to the cottage, Shane then has to decide what to do next with his career.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,007
- Chapters:
- 2/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85893836
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for Shane, it was always going to be about love by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-13
Shane Hollander has made all the right decisions. Putting hockey above everything, abstaining from cake and lemonade, and never kissing boys, especially Russian boys with crooked grins who always saw right through him. This restraint has secured Shane a legacy as one of the greatest players of all time. Everything he ever wanted, and somehow never enough.
Ilya Rozanov is long dead, lost to fire and water in a plane crash half a century ago. But at the end of his carefully controlled life, Shane can’t stop dreaming about him, haunted by echoes of what might have been.
Given a chance to change the past, Shane has to decide what really matters: hockey, or the only bad decision he was ever tempted to make.
or: fate and Irina Rozanov have unexpectedly romantic sensibilities, and some lovers (no, Ilya that’s gross) are meant to find each other in every universe.
time travel fix-it 💫 happy ending
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,040
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86223206
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Sober or Not, It’s Always You by shanebug_2481
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-11
The room tilted slightly, and Shane’s throat was raw. He swayed there a moment, scanning the spinning room for somewhere to steady himself – for Haas or Dykstra. Ilya had been right; he should have slowed down, stayed with his teammates. He hadn't listened, and now he was alone, 2 Moscow Mules and 3 shots deep, stuck at the bar and lost in a sea of people. Shane just wanted his husband. The alcohol hadn't done anything to soften the effects of the music and lights encircling him. He felt trapped – suffocated – like his skin was fusing itself to his stiff muscles. The room spun faster, and the Canadian wasn't convinced he was standing upright anymore. His heart pounded in his ears as the music rattled his ribcage once more, an insatiable itch beckoning his blunt fingernails. He wanted to scream. He wanted to rip his hair out. He wanted to tear his clothes off. He wanted Ilya.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,157
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88341231