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Dude, You're a Boyfriend by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-27
After tuna melts and their first night actually sleeping together, Ilya asks Shane for more. Shane agrees, not knowing that this was Ilya's way of asking him out.
Comination of written fic and texting fic.
The text scrolls!
- Part 13 of Verdant's Heated Rivalry Fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,463
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85080836
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@ russianbear clove
roz is so fucking funny man had two seconds to process and he spent them thinking about how to get that ass
@ icemenace Ro - he's so real
@ shaneybugbug Libby - oh he's been WAITING for this
@ iwant81 Abbie - he was so obviously joking oh my god
@ russianbear clove - ummmm i don't think so
@ iwant81 Abbie - rozanov likes girls english just isn't his first language so he accidentally made it look like something you freaks are taking advantage of
@ russianbear clove - so he's joking or it was an accident??? Istg at least chose one
or - Shane Hollander comes out and Ilya loses his mind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 92,099
- Chapters:
- 26/31
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82614141
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Shane didn’t remember his first time skating, but he remembered when hockey became a career, when he became the vessel for his parents’ dreams, when his hockey ability came second to where his ancestors were born or who he loved, when he became a brand. Somewhere in these memories, though he couldn’t say exactly where, he learned to hide himself.
And then, behind an arena in Regina, he met Ilya Rozanov, who managed to see him anyway. The hours they spent together each year became the only time Shane could breathe, until being apart felt like suffocating. But Shane had entered the hockey world with two strikes against him, and he couldn’t let Ilya become his third.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,969
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79069226
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the tricks out of our sleeves by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-28
“Is Boston even interested.”
Ilya scoffs at him like Shane is an idiot.
“Is sky blue? Is water wet? Is English stupid language? Yes, Hollander, of course we want best player in the league.” Ilya mutters more in disgruntled Russian and Shane gets up off the couch to Google Russian lessons on his ipad while continuing their conversation.
Or, a Shane goes to Boston story.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 62,948
- Chapters:
- 29/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80612101
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I’ll Believe in Anything (Except That) by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-27
In another timeline, Shane and Ilya hook up in Room 1410, Ilya slips out unnoticed, and they spend the next seven years trapped in the situationship from hell we all know and love.
In this one, Yuna Hollander walks in just as Ilya goes to leave and—through the combined power of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and a frankly alarming lack of follow-up—Shane and Ilya start dating in 2010.
Given the chance to grow up with rather than against each other, Shane and Ilya build a life thats steadier, safer, and far less frightening than their canon. Their rivalry fizzles before it ever has the chance to fully ignite, replaced by hockey’s most beloved “bromance", and in 2015, they find the courage to do the one thing their canon counterparts never got to do: tell the NHL and the world.
There is just one problem: No one believes them.
OR: Despite Shane and Ilya being out for two years, Scott Hunter is still considered the first openly gay player in the NHL, much to Ilya’s indignation.
ACT I: Ch. 1–11 | Complete | 2010–2015 | 107k
ACT II: Ch. 12–16 | Ongoing | 2015+- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 146,116
- Chapters:
- 15/16
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84525081
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“You are in bathroom now having panic attack, calling your boyfriend because you just told journalist you are gay?”
“Fuck you, Ilya,” Shane scoffed.
“I am just making sure I understand the situation. Okay, okay, you just go out and say you misspoke. You meant to say that you are… gray.”
“I’m not a fucking paint sample.”
“Maybe you said that you pray?”
“I definitely did not say I pray. Also, I’m not religious.”
“You're not?”
“Ilya, can you fucking focus?”****
When Yuna books Shane a sit-down interview with GQ, she has no idea she's about to derail the carefully laid ten-year plan Shane and his secret boyfriend had only just begun to build. Shane never realized how exhausting the secret had become until it slipped out. Suddenly, telling the truth felt just a little more bearable than forcing himself back into hiding.This is a story about bravery. About being scared and doing it anyway. About being too exhausted to keep lying. About deciding which truths are finally safe to share, and which must still be protected while real danger remains.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,960
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #90744736
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Sorry's Not Enough Anymore by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-18
Midway through Shane's first season with the Centaurs, the Irina Foundation hosts a silent auction fundraiser. Camp coaches are invited to mingle with donors and talk up the summer camps. Everyone seems to be doing well, having a good time.
Except JJ and Hayden.
- Part 3 of Let Shane Hollander Crash Out
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,563
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83813291
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jane dutch by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-29
Shane Hollander has a secret life. No, not the one where he's hiding his trysts with his rival.
He's a pseudonymous hockey romance author under the alias Jane Dutch.
And the Metros WAGs have just picked up his first release for their book club...
Extras start at chapter 26!
- Part 7 of crackin' open a cold one
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 98,000
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #84865406
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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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After Shane comes out, the Metros become convinced he might be attracted to them.
Shane corrects this assumption with devastating precision, accidentally describes Ilya Rozanov in the process, and somehow turns the entire locker room into a deranged pageant of heterosexual insecurity.
- Part 1 of Prompts
- Part 1 of Metros & Centaurs Assemble ♡
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,048
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86901701
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time travel doesn't get you out of parenting by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-02
After winning the Stanley Cup in 2023, the Ottawa Centaurs Rookies are drunk and making wishes only to end up in Tampa Bay in 2017. Step one when something goes wrong and you need an adult? Find Team Dads Ilya and Shane. This can't go wrong.
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Basically I drop the Centaur's rookies into 2017 as a plot device for shenanigans and fixing Hollanov's relationship. Then I send them home and let the butterfly effect run rampant.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 73,251
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80383671
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After a very illuminating conversation with Cliff Marleau on a night out, Carter Vaughn decides the rivalry is getting rather ridiculous. The tension between Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov is clearly at an all-time high.
Which is why he makes a plan for the All Stars Game in 2017, recruiting a group of hockey players to help him.
But in one thing Carter is very clear. Those two need to fuck it out.
- Part 7 of Hollanov/Centaurs Texting/WAG Fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,465
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89288991
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The chips are set to fall by icopythefax
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-10
At the 2017 All Star Weekend, Ilya takes fate into his own hands to produce at least one out MLH player by the end of the season. Thus begins his part-time side hustle as community organizer, mastermind, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gay Hockey Army.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 178,506
- Chapters:
- 42/42
- Files:
- 6 versions
- AO3:
- #78909961
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the accidental wingman by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-04
Marley: maybe he'll reach out to you again
Marley: i'm optimistic!! 💪
Marley: roz?
Marley: hello?
Marley: did i say something wrong?
Roz: how do you know?
Marley: know what?
Roz: that jane is a man?
Marley: what?In October 2016, Cliff Marlow accidentally becomes the keeper of the biggest secret in the Hockey world. All because of a typo.
- Part 2 of other HR fics & oneshots
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,695
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87921446
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Head of the WAGs by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-04
The group chat elects a new Head of the WAGs
Harris
Good morning, RozIlyusha 🩵
Hello, traitor.- Part 6 of What is a RHOO?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,693
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87855851
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“Honestly, dude, you’re fucking handling this like a champ.”
He’s not. He’s handling it the way he has to, the only way there is to handle it. “Well, I am champ, so.”
Marlow chuckles.
He sounds like he’s about to say something else heartfelt and misinformed, so Ilya flicks on the radio.
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Ilya gets outed fall 2014. Objectively it's good for gay hockey but it sure doesn't feel like it.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,528
- Chapters:
- 6/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80583101
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Totally Real Canadian Boyfriend™️ by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-23
Ilya Rozanov, captain of the Boston Raiders, has a boyfriend. A definitely real, suspiciously (and boringly) handsome, conveniently offline, consistently unable to meet up in real life boyfriend.
Who lives in Canada.
Unfortunately for him, absolutely no one believes him.
The more serious Ilya gets about his Totally Real Canadian Boyfriend™️, the more concerned his teammates become that someone either needs to call MTV and get him on the next episode of Catfish or that he's slowly losing his mind.
Shane Hollander is, fortunately, very real, very sarcastic, and increasingly delighted that an entire NHL locker room seems to think that he's a government psyop to distract Ilya from his game.
- Part 1 of they haven't connected shit
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,633
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87060296
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Gay During That Goal, Too by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-14
Shane Hollander accidentally comes out to his hockey team after years of hiding his sexuality behind carefully crafted personas and unfinished coming out speeches. As the Metros slowly begin icing him out on and off the ice, Shane spirals between rage, grief, and self-discovery—while Ilya refuses to let him forget exactly who he is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 34,913
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84476361
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my grass is greener than yours by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-05
“So. That’s it? Those are the rules?” Hayden asked. “Don’t go through your texts or photos, keep up with your workouts and diet, and listen to everything Yuna says, without question.”
Shane seemed to be thinking about it, pausing a second. All of a sudden, he looked up at Hayden, again with that intense anxiety face.
“And most importantly, do not talk to Ilya Rozanov. Ever. No matter what.” Shane said, “Avoid him. Don’t even look at him. OK?”
Hayden nodded, and resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Like he even needed to be told that. Besides, Shane had been avoiding Ilya Rozanov for his entire career. How hard could it be?
OR a well-meaning witch bodyswaps Shane and Hayden (to teach them about the power of friendship) the day before the 2017 All Stars Game.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,680
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80649926
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The Great Pretender by lady_st4rdus7
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-02
Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense. The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion. Or: Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander. Shane, for the record, is alive and really confused.
- Part 1 of my hollanov
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,278
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84483691