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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:
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- 6/?
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- AO3:
- #80583101
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The Crow's Nest by robbinscinquefoil
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-23
Cliff would probably remember if he was there when Ilya met a woman so earth-shattering that he would chase after her for nearly a decade. Probably. Cliff thinks he would probably notice something as life-altering as a meeting like that. Who on earth is this woman and how did they find each other? Did Cliff watch Ilya’s life change before his eyes and not even realize what was happening? In the fall of 2017, Cliff Marlow notices evidence of Jane all over Ilya’s apartment. He decides to investigate.
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- English
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- 6/6
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84393906
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Shane lets himself be won back and decides to make a romantic gesture to Ilya in return.
- Part 2 of Ilya's Intervention
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #87198136
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i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-21
What if Ilya has a panic attack in the locker room after getting the news of his father's death after the Winter 2017 Montreal @ Boston game and no one can figure out what is going on? What if, while scrambling for answers, Cliff Marleau has the brilliant idea to call Jane?
Or,
What if Shane and Ilya's deeper emotional connection begins just before Ilya leaves for his father's funeral in Russia instead of on a phone call while they are separated by oceans?
- Part 1 of The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows
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- English
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- 10/10
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- AO3:
- #87133631
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The Sun Beyond Winter by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-21
There was something wrong with Shane Hollander.
He had known it since he was young.
Most people-most kids, in general-had different hobbies and interests. Their attention drifted from one thing to another. They became fascinated with something for a few weeks, only to abandon it for the next shiny obsession that caught their eye.
Shane had never been like that.
When it came to him, there was only ever one thing: hockey.
Obsessive.
That was the word most people used when referring to his temperament.
- Part 3 of Hollanov Lulu-verse
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- 13/13
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #86547416
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Trying to Guess if Cliff Marleau is Gay, Straight, or a Homophobe | Gaydar by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-19
“I’m Anania, this is Gaydar, and I’m going to find out if you are gay, straight or a homophobe, what is your name, and what are your pronouns?”
“I’m Cliff Marleau.” Cliff smiles, then remembers the rest of the question. “Oh! Uh…he and him. Oh, and his. He, his, him?"
“Are you asking, or…?” Anania eyes him with confusion.
"No, it’s him, his, he.” Cliff nods his head with each word, saying them carefully.
“Are you trying to get the order right?” Anania purses her lips to hold back a smile.
“Yeah.” Cliff admits.OR: Cliff Marleau goes on Gaydar and has several identity crises.
- Part 5 of Heated Rivalry Articles and Reactions
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- #87018361
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found connection (baby i can't stop calling you) by aquilanovae
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-18
Shane calls a phone sex hotline and gets Ilya crooning unspeakable filth in his ear. It kind of devolves from there. ——— Ilya is a college student in Boston working on the side as a phone sex operator, Shane is still a hockey player. They have toe-curling, back-cracking dirty phone sex and end up catching feelings along the way.
- Part 1 of 1-800-i-love-you
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- English
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- 10/10
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80822841
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Cliff Marleau and Ilya Rozanov are good bros. They share everything with each other. Including, apparently, their nudes.
or: texting fic where Cliff and Ilya rate each other's nudes in a totally platonic bro way of course
- Part 6 of SnailyMaily HR fics
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- English
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- 7/7
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- AO3:
- #85804256
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the root cause of sleeplessness by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-11
After Rose and Shane’s first time together, Shane can’t sleep.
Or: The breakup, sooner. The club scene, entirely different. Marlow, very confused.
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- 3/3
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- AO3:
- #86479371
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The Intervention by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-06-10
Three of the Raiders best gentlemen stage an intervention with their beloved captain after the Tuna Meltdown. Roz comes out to them and they decide to help him get his man back.
- Part 1 of Ilya's Intervention
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Roz’s Montreal girl. The girl who’d one had him show up to practice covered in cat scratches. The same girl, if Cliff has to guess, that Roz has been texting since his fucking rookie season. He decides to go for a hail mary.
“Bet your girl’s happy about the shorter commute, huh?” Roz’s eyes snap to his, wide with shock. Cliff raises his hand in a placating gesture. “Relax, brother.”
“Yes,” he says, “she is.”
(Cliff & Ilya)3
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- AO3:
- #86490686
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Boston Buddies by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-09
When Ilya's phone is hacked and all of his private texts are leaked, Shane Hollander is grateful for insisting that he and Ilya delete their texts each day.
What he did not expect, though, was to find out that Ilya and Cliff Marlow were having sex throughout Ilya's time in Boston... and maybe still are.
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #85764836
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sliding carefully/seriously slipping out of control by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-09
Ilya figures out the key to escaping the time loop on the third consecutive Tuesday. It isn’t exactly hard.
The time loop chews him up and spits him out a hundred Tuesdays later.
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- 4/?
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- AO3:
- #81973116
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Cliff Marleau has known about Ilya Rozanov’s relationship since Ilya was twenty-two.
It’s not like it was complicated to put the pieces together, is the thing. When it all comes out in public, the Raiders have various different meltdowns – Twitter explodes in a way that is sort of unprecedented, and breaks out of the hockey specific Twitter spaces the same way that the Scott Hunter thing did. There’s shitty headlines and queer space headlines, and it’s a whole thing. And Cliff is pretty sure he’s the person least surprised about it.
But here’s the thing. Cliff Marleau has known Ilya Rozanov since the kid was eighteen.
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Marly's not as oblivious as everyone thinks. Throughout his time knowing Ilya Rozanov, he picks up on some things nobody else seems to be seeing. He keeps his mouth shut about it.- Language:
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Hello! This is my first post, although I am a frequent visitor to this subreddit and have been for years. I have loved hockey all my life, but my real guilty pleasure is staying on top of all the behind the scenes gossip. As you can imagine, Scott Hunter kissing his boyfriend on the ice was a huge day for me!
I recently noticed something with Ilya Rozanov that I don’t think many other people have, and I decided to finally post about it here to see if anyone else shares my opinion. Every hockey fan I’ve talked to in my real life has brushed it off because Rozanov is known as such a womanizer, but I genuinely think he’s in some kind of serious long-term relationship.
Or the year before Ilya transfers to Ottawa, Shane and Ilya learn three things. Creating a charity is a fuck ton of work, coming out isn’t something you do just once, and the whole world seems to think Ilya Rozanov is in a committed relationship.Oh, and Ilya is addicted to Reddit hockey gossip.
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"Shane Hollander lives in Canada."
Or how the Boston Raiders form a task force dedicated to preventing their captain from emigrating for love.
- Part 3 of With a Little Help from My Friends
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Ilya had a nice life in Providence, Rhode Island. He was married, technically. He was an American citizen. He had a good job. His NHL career, cut short, was in the past and so was his old hook up.
So why the fuck was Shane Hollander standing outside his front door?
A Shane Hollander Courts Ilya Rozanov story.
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Farah, Shane, and his mom have a statement drafted by the end of the first period of the Boston v. Toronto game. By the time the Raiders are done showering and are pulled for post-game press, everyone with even a passing interest in professional hockey knows that Shane Hollander is an Unrestricted Free Agent looking for a new team.
Shane watched live as Ilya blinked stupidly, took a few seconds to process, and then quickly answered into the mic. This interview would gain millions of views over the coming months and would be cited as the source of the most chaotic social media rollercoaster the MLH ever had.
No one knew it then, but the Great MLH Seduction had officially begun.
*****
Or: Ilya stays with the Boston Raiders instead of trading to Ottawa. This causes quite a few ripples when Shane finally ends his contract with Montreal.
Featuring: the Hollander Family's Spreadsheets(TM), professional hockey culture shifts, and a tasteful amount of fraud against the MLH.
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- English
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- 8,993
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- 4/?
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81710131
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Breathing Room by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-26
Shane Hollander arrives in Vegas with a question he hasn’t spoken out loud.
It isn’t complicated, exactly. It’s just the kind of question that requires honesty he isn’t sure he’s ready for - about what he and Ilya Rozanov have been doing for the past few years, about what six months of silence after Sochi actually meant, and about whether any of it is worth staying close to or whether he finally needs to go.
He gets his answer in a locked bathroom at the NHL Awards.
Ilya spends the summer convinced that Shane is fine. Upset? Yes. Angry? Definitely. But Shane always felt things fiercely despite what everyone said about him when he had his back turned. He’d calm down over the summer and then he’d be there like he always had been. He fills the silence with discipline and routine and the comfortable certainty that later is still available to him.
He’s wrong.
By the time Ilya understands what he actually lost, Shane is already gone; and Ilya is left trying to find a way back to someone who closed the door long before Ilya had ever thought to just walk through it.
- Part 1 of The Distance Between Us
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- English
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- 11/11
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- AO3:
- #84850786
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oh god i didn't mean to (and what if he can't see him?) by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-26
oh my god
Connors: it wasn't your fault marly he came out of nowhere you couldn't have anticipated it
oh my god
there was so much blood
i cant fucking breathe
Carmichael: where are you marly
i hurt hollander
fuck i swear i didn't mean to
in which: Shane hollander is injured, subsequent issues are addressed, and one of our main-but-also-somehow-side-characters makes his true debut.
- Part 6 of fixer upper (the boston remix)
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- AO3:
- #85582956