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2014: Ilya Rozanov shocks the world and breaks Shane Hollander’s heart by disappearing without explanation, and without a goodbye kiss.
2024: A devastating injury forces Shane to retire early, so he moves to a small town to coach girls hockey and figure out what the hell to do with the rest of his life.
When recently divorced Ilya Rozanov walks into the rink with his twin girls, Shane has to decide if he’s brave enough to risk a second chance on a broken heart, and a rekindled romance with the first and only boy he ever loved.
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“So.” Ilya cleared his throat. “Should we tell the girls their Daddy and their coach used to date?”
“We didn’t date. We hooked up a few times, then you disappeared.” Shane looked away to hide his heartbreak as he lied, “It doesn’t even matter. It’s not like I loved you or anything.”
“No, of course not.” Ilya tried to smile through a lie of his own, “I didn’t love you either.”
- Part 6 of Heated Rivalry
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 566,746
- Chapters:
- 29/?
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #79333006
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SHANE: Lily.
LILY: Hello
SHANE: Dead to me.
What the actual fuck?
LILY: ??
SHANE: what. The. Hell. Did. You. Do.
LILY: ahh
I am in trouble
Yes?
Or Ilya's teammates add "Jane" to the Boston WAG group chat in the height of their "no, we aren't falling in love, whatever do you mean" era (2014-2016-ish?).- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 72,113
- Chapters:
- 31/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81424231
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hard rime by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-10-21
Ilya avoids skin contact with known sentinels as much as he can. It’s unlikely for compatibility to be high enough for a physical reaction. Ilya’s already managed to be a difficult guide. He can’t risk exposing his secret for the sake of camaraderie. But Hollander is pretty, and Ilya is not thinking about him being a sentinel, or the danger, or the pull he’s felt since he laid eyes on Hollander in person. He’s just thinking that he wants to touch him.
So he does.
And the touch sparks, bright and instant.
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Shane is a sentinel and Ilya is a guide. For the sake of their secrets, they should keep their distance. They don't.
It saves both their lives
(and ruins them)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,475
- Chapters:
- 7/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87812706
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Summer, 2021. Shane Hollander is Major League Hockey's hottest free agent. MLH fans and organizations alike must grapple with their expectations: Hollander is not the young man the league discarded in 2017, for better or worse. There is more to his life than hockey, even if he says frustratingly little about his boyfriend, another player known only as Lily.
When the Ottawa Centaurs lace up for the 2021-2022 season with a stacked lineup, failure is not an option. What the world believes to be the newest iteration of a longstanding rivalry just might be hockey's greatest love story.
- Part 3 of Everything they Say
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 119,812
- Chapters:
- 36/36
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83150341
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pillow talk by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-09
“That was a good one,” Ilya said, stretching his arms above his head. “Fuck, you fucked a cramp into my back.”
“I fucked a cramp into your back?”
“Yes,” Ilya said, raising an eyebrow. “What, you are trying to say you are a pillow princess?”
Shane scoffed. “You’ll never hear me take any of those words in my mouth.”
Shane, Ilya and a series of conversations in bed.
- Part 2 of Flufftober 2026!
- Part 2 of smash or pass-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,377
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #94307086
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- Part 2 of saturated sunrise: soulmates au
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,448
- Chapters:
- 4/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #93085141
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The Butterfly's Mask by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-21
A butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world may cause a hurricane somewhere else.
A conversation with Rose Landry leads Shane Hollander to make a decision that he may ultimately live to regret. Far from the eye of the storm, he crashes along the waves, beaten down by wind and rain.
Ilya Rozanov lies in the eye of a hurricane. Sometimes he drifts just close enough to the horizon to get into trouble. Just dangerous enough to keep life interesting - enough to remind himself that he's still alive.
A safe harbor can be found for both, if they can only get there.
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Or, Post Tuna-Meltdown but before All-Stars in Tampa, Shane comes out to the Metros and it does not go well. He comes up for air in Boston.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 63,798
- Chapters:
- 8/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82575586
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Up Close and Personal by Spotsandsocks
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-20
An AU where Shane and Ilya meet in very different circumstances. Ilya’s a generational talent, a star and recognised wherever he goes thanks to his talent on stage and the lucrative magazine and advertising contracts his fame brings him. He lives his life in Boston as best he can but recently someone has taken against him and while the threatening letters were unpleasant they didn’t bother him much. He was more bothered by the knife in his side that stopped him performing for months, but now he’s healed and due on stage in a few hours. He hopes he can still make it because he hadn’t been expecting a stranger with uncertain motives to approach him in a deserted alley. When he finds out exactly who he is his life gets much more complicated. Ilya Rozanov has various problems in his life but right now the most pressing one is the dark haired freckled man who’s crashed into his life.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 118,813
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #85152181
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six milestones, six perfect nests by hailstormtsunami - exchange works (hailstormtsunami)
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-09-08
It was his nest. “You did not have to do this,” Ilya told Shane when he led him to his room—the room with the king bed and the ensuite bathroom and the nice view that he’d needled Shane about only to tease him and try to rile him up. It was Shane’s nest that he hadn’t prepared prior to picking Ilya up from the airport. It was Shane’s nest that he’d been fixing and freshening up whilst Ilya was siting at the kitchen table. Because the cottage was Shane’s safe place, and so of course, he’d build a nest there. OR: Over the years, Shane builds or rebuilds or fixes up his nests whilst Ilya waits outside. This fic covers six of these times.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,509
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #92215471
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Who Do I Have To Fight, Rozanov? by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-06
Despite the *obvious* interest on both their parts (standing naked under a shower makes it hard to hide certain feelings) Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov don’t hook up after the CCM shoot. A few years later, when they’re both Captains of their respective teams, Ilya comes out as bisexual. Shane immediately makes his move to lock down the boy he’s had a crush on all this time, before it’s too late. After a surprise at a post-game press conference and a challenge from the Raiders, Shane has to convince Ilya he is serious about having a real relationship in front of professional hockey and the entire internet. Will it work? There’s only one way to find out!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 23,659
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91849576
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Not a wife, or a girlfriend, but a secret third thing by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-26
(Jane has been added to Not the Boston WAGs)
Shannon: Oh? Fresh meat?
(Jane has left Not the Boston WAGs)
Vikki: Way to scare her off!
(Jane has been added to Not the Boston WAGs)
Vikki: Hey Jane! I spent like twenty minutes trying to draft an introduction message but I'm way too tired for that rn so I figured I'd just drop you into the deep end and see if you can swim
Jane: I'm actually a very strong swimmer
Jane: Sorry, what's going on?
- Part 1 of Not the Boston WAGs
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,146
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77739201
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EXCLUSIVE: Rookie Rivals… Or After-Hours Roommates?
We’re not saying anything happened. We’re just saying... maybe some rivalries get more heated than others.-
Or, someone overhears hollanov in the locker room after the CCM shoot. The cascade of events that follows changes (almost) everything.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,615
- Chapters:
- 1/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91099091
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The elevator meeting between Yuna and Ilya goes a little differently.
Or, what if Ilya had realized much earlier that dating Shane would come with a ready-made set of adoptive parents.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,553
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91038641
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“Such a good boy,” Ilya says suddenly.
He’s surprised. Ilya likes to taunt him in bed the same way he taunts Shane on the ice; by being cocky, mean, and a little bit cruel. He enjoys getting a rise out of Shane while Shane likes to pretend to be annoyed by it. It’s a thing they do.
This is not their thing.
Or, Shane finds it difficult to ask for what he wants. Ilya has no problems understanding him anyway.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,090
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90362726
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There’s power in a person’s belongings.
In a world where sharing clothes is not just about fabric, Shane has to contend with the fact that he is not supposed to be wearing his rival captain’s clothes (but ends up doing it anyway).
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,848
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89664636
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that sudden rush of the world by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-30
“This is just crazy,” J.J. said. “Give me that, Pike, I’ve got one he absolutely can’t pass.”
“Oh, so you’re saying it’s my fault?” Hayden asked.
“Skill issue.” J.J. paused. “Ok. Pedro Pascal.” His voice was smug.
A long silence stretched while Shane Hollander looked at the camera, seemingly deciding whether it was worth it to lie.
“No!” J.J. said, horrified.
“Pass… I—What?”
“The entire internet wants to fuck this man!”
“Okay?!” Shane Hollander said, throwing his arms out. “I don’t know what to tell you!”
“Jesus Christ, okay.” Hayden shuffled behind the camera. “Ilya Rozanov.”
A flush bloomed across Shane Hollander’s freckled face, intensifying so fast it looked like his face was on fire.
“Uhm.” He pressed his lips together before his shoulders dropped in resignation. “Smash.”
Or: A clip of Shane Hollander playing smash or pass goes viral and Ilya wants to eat him alive.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,707
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89533436
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The lights are too fucking bright right now by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-29
There really was no way he would have been able to break up with Shane tonight. He is a weak, weak man. He is a weak man who needs to get the fuck out of here before he goes back on Twitter and causes problems, or before he does something else insane like sniffing through Shane’s underwear drawer or running a reverent hand across his yoga mat. All around him is Shane Shane Shane and Shane is not here. Shane is at Montreal General Hospital in unknown condition, possibly alone.
Ilya is putting his shoes on before he fully realizes that he’s decided to go to the hospital.
Shane Hollander is carted off the ice after getting hit by Cliff Marlow. An exhausted and still-grieving Ilya Rozanov spirals, makes some stupid choices, and accidentally finds himself hanging out with his situationship’s parents.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,054
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88490386
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Almost 3,000 Miles Away by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-05
Brad Hammersmith got on the allyship and somehow ended up a gay pirate himself.
Set directly after O Lady Jane Where Art Thou, where the loyal Best Boston Bear BrosTM went on a quest to discover the truth about Lady Jane d’Montréal. There were some bumps along the road but it all worked out in the end. Brad’s not sure if the same could be said about him.
(Despite the summary, this is neither a pirate AU nor a regency romance.)
Can be read independently but the experience is enhanced if you read part 1 first. Contains no spoilers for O Lady Jane.
- Part 2 of The Best Boston Bears Bros
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,283
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87950121
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take it from the top of the morning by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-22
It takes living through four iterations of the exact same day for Shane to think, okay. Maybe this doesn’t have anything to do with hockey.
In his defense, it’s not like time loops come with a manual.
- Part 14 of my heated rivalry anon fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,213
- Chapters:
- 1/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87208961
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When Ilya's father finds out that Ilya has been sleeping with Sasha, his coach's son, Grigori kicks Ilya out of the house and tells him never to return. Injured and alone with nowhere to go, Ilya reaches out to his childhood friend Svetlana and her father, Sergei. As a retired MLH star and permanent resident of the US, Sergei Vetrov is able to help Ilya seek asylum while he waits for the draft. However, the story behind Ilya's abrupt departure from Russia is leaked just weeks before the MLH draft is scheduled to be held, and the repercussions will change the direction of Ilya's future in the MLH forever...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 75,955
- Chapters:
- 18/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83300166