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Miles to go before I sleep by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-10-01
On February 17, Ilya goes through with his plan to break up with Shane.
On April 18, the MLH announces an expansion team in Arizona.
On June 21, the Phoenix Coyotes draft both Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, who were left unprotected by their teams.
On Monday, Ilya decides he doesn't want to live anymore.
On Thursday, Shane asks if he wants to drive to Phoenix with him.
Huh.
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This is a love story.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,570
- Chapters:
- 2/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #92744216
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I'm Coming to the Cottage (No, Not That One) by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Barghest | Barguest (Yorkshire England Folk Tale)
2026-09-26
Shane Hollander desperately needs to disappear.
After a spectacularly awful week, a remote Yorkshire cottage seems like the perfect place to hide from the press, rediscover himself, and drink an irresponsible amount of tea.
Unfortunately, the cottage isn't empty.
The Russian stranger insists it’s his, but Shane has paperwork that says otherwise.
It's just after midnight, there's a storm outside, the roads are probably flooded, and the only available weapon is a stuffed fish.
Clearly, this is all Svetlana's fault.
They're both convinced the cottage belongs to them and they're both refusing to leave.
A Yorkshire romcom.
Inspired by The Holiday (2006), with lashings of Wallace & Gromit.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 79,447
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87748931
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What if Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov didn't hook up at the CCM photoshoot, but agreed to fake date instead?
And Yuna used her witchy powers for matchmaking good?
What would it look like if Hallmark had a fake dating at Thanksgiving and Christmas movie, but it was X-rated?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,390
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91454906
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A Trail of Kisses by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-24
The varied roles kisses can play in the evolution of a relationship. Inspired by a list of tumblr prompts.
- Part 14 of Incremental Gains
- Part 18 of Betting on the 2026 Stanley Cup Play-offs
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,339
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88886331
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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
- Words:
- 9,192
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88695836
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Next time I'll be braver by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-09
What if the plane crash never happened?
What if Shane decided to be a bit braver anyways?
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A few months after the Boxing Day fight Shane decided to surprise Ilya and his teammates at Monk’s, the bar they frequent. He could just introduce himself as a friend, right?- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,616
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88061571
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This is Such a Bad Idea by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-04
Shane Hollander does not leave outcomes to chance. When traditional dating fails to produce the stability he wants, he turns to a private matchmaker who promises something more deliberate: one match, one meeting, one decision.
Ilya Rozanov never planned to get married. But when his carefully controlled life starts to unravel, marriage becomes the simplest solution.
Neither of them is looking for love. What they agree to is a calculated partnership, built on alignment, not emotion.
It should be straightforward.
It is not.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 128,137
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82567891
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“Uh,” he says, looking up from his screen and feeling his ears go hot, realizing for the first time that this habit of his hasn’t actually come up before until this exact moment.
“What?” Rozanov asks, sounding more amused than anything else. “You are one of the people who does Instagram for food now?”
“No,” Shane says, stalling between answering and finishing his Snap so he can send it to Melissa, “one sec.” He finishes typing out 'Tuna melt. Chips. Pickles. It smells really good. Swiss cheese, I think.' before he looks back to Rozanov, putting his phone facedown on the coffee table. “Just sending it to someone on the staff. She likes knowing what I’m eating.”
He doesn’t know if Melissa likes knowing what he’s eating, per se, but she also seems pleased when he talks about enjoying food for things beyond how many grams of protein it has in it.
“Ah,” Rozanov says, in a tone Shane can’t quite read. “You always send her your food then, this girl?”
(shane has a habit of sending his team's dietitian his meals for approval) (the problem with this habit? he forgets to tell ilya exactly what it is that melissa does) (how the tuna meltdown is AVERTED through the power of miscommunication)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,481
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #87642311
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“I am sorry,” he says. “I am not trying to fight. I just don’t like the idea of you not being okay and me not knowing, even when I am in the same place as you.”
That Shane can understand. He wouldn’t like it if their positions were reversed, after all, if he thought Ilya was potentially in danger and he was in the next room over drinking champagne and making smalltalk. He sees Ilya go somewhere in his head sometimes, sees him retreat inwards, sees him check out even if his body is still there, going so deep inside that he doesn’t even catch Shane’s eye for a bit even when something funny happens, too far away for Shane to reach him.
But it’s also not like he can just go up and grab Ilya by the arm and pull him away from the party, not without inviting speculation and a whisper storm. He doesn’t have that right, doesn’t have that privilege, to potentially need Ilya or be needed by Ilya and be able to just pull him away.
It’s moments like these that Shane feels the weight of their secret like a physical thing.
(5 times shane and ilya couldn't be openly together and 1 time they could)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,670
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87335856
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Hat Trick by penpen_xo
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-23
“A baby.” Shane breathed out. “Can you believe it?” “Yes, I can,” Ilya said, voice croaky and muffled against Shane’s chest. “We have a lot of sex.” “Asshole.” Shane swatted him and Ilya finally drew back, meeting his husband's smile with one of his own. “So that food poisoning you had last month.” Ilya considered. “Not food poisoning I guess.” “That means we can add Al’s Sushi back into our rotation! Their spicy Salmon roll is so fucking good.” Ilya asked, his mouth practically watering. “Ahh, probably not any time soon, and I'd really love to not talk about raw fish right this second if that’s okay.” Shane’s eyes drifted down to his abdomen, a flash of queasiness crossing his face. Ilya let his hands fall to Shane’s belly, spreading them wide across the warm skin. “A baby.” He murmured and Shane sighed into him. “God I love you so much.” or Shane and Ilya attend All Stars weekend, fully intent on just enjoy versing each other for the first time in years, only to leave with much more than broken records and the chance to revisit their old rivalry.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,764
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87238381
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wish that you were here by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-17
Then the question came.
“And your dad is what, boring? Is that where you get your boring from?”
It was just Ilya teasing him. But Shane had froze. It’s not that he could say it outright. Oh, Ilya funny that you might mention that! Actually, what I got from my dad was the ability to teleport. Haha, how funny is that?
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Shane has the ability to teleport. But how and when exactly do you tell your fuckbuddy/boyfriend of eight years that little fact?
- Part 2 of Alternate Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,978
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86901321
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Shane shrugged. "If soulmates are real, you're mine." "Soulmate?" Ilya asked. He had a wide smile and his eyes were so painfully fond.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 490
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86777221
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I Knew It, I Knew You by gothpandaotaku
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-07
“ From the moment Shane had met Rozanov’s blue eyes and shaken his hand outside a building in Saskatchawan, Shane’s entire being Knew Rozanov.” “Shane’s very being Knew him. It was a ridiculous notion that Shane chose to ignore at the time, but that didn’t make it any less true.” OR a fluffy schmoopy songfic inspired by I Knew It, I Knew You by Taylor Swift.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,442
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86261641
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Svetlana has always been a woman who knew what she wants, how she wanted it, and where she wanted it. She was always on the move, making new connections – expanding her worldview. But somehow, sitting in this cottage outside of Ottawa, and in the presence of her best friends and recent Stanley Cup championships, she wondered to herself if she wanted more.
or Svetlana Vetrova falls in love with Rose Landry
Inspired by Between I and She by Willow.
- Part 3 of Shane and Dem Boyz
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,926
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83972211
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The Minor Fall, The Major Lift by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-12
~And from your lips, he drew the Hallelujah
Ilya Rozanov leaves Boston and signs with Ottawa, trying to fight a slow slide into emptiness and find meaning in his life again. Shane Hollander is a lonely, struggling artist who lost his spark. When they meet by chance, they both have to decide what's worth living for.
Or…Shane never gets the chance to become a pro hockey player, so they meet later in life. Basically, they’re both sad boys, but the healing will be worth it (mostly soft fluff, very low angst). More baggage, fewer hangups.
~You see I used to live alone before I knew ya.
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“So maybe we would have played together,” Ilya said.
“Yeah. Maybe we would have been rivals,” Shane said, and that got a grin out of him. He couldn’t quite imagine it, but he thought that would have been fun, facing off against Ilya Rozanov. In another life.
Ilya nodded slowly. “And yet here we are, meeting anyway. Maybe we were meant to.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 120,745
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83202531
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You’ll go to heaven and I’ll go to hell in the meantime by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-30
After Vegas, Shane begins to give up on Ilya and looks for a new way to feel wanted.
Ilya, of course, finds out about this and locks in.
A small dose of jealousy and a bigger dose of communication add up to change the trajectory of their affair from 2014 onward.
- Part 1 of 2014 Remix
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,141
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #80275726
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Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are solid.
Married. Stable. Established. The NHL’s favorite “we didn’t see that coming” love story turned domestic success.
They have a house. A dog that likes Ilya better. A shared calendar that Shane actually uses.
They’ve learned how to grocery shop without arguing about brands of pasta.
They are, objectively, fine.
Which is precisely the problem.
Somewhere between sponsorship shoots, playoff runs, and arguing over whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher, the fire that once burned hot enough to survive secrecy and rivalry has… softened. Not gone. Not broken. Just familiar.
Comfortable. Predictable.When a league marketing campaign crowns them “Hockey’s Ultimate Love Story” and assigns a documentary crew to follow them around for the season, Shane jokingly tells Ilya:
“Guess you’re going to have to fall in love with me again on camera.”Ilya smirks. “Please. I could make you fall in love with me again in one week.”
It’s a joke.
Until it becomes a challenge.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 68,626
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80945186
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heat seeker (the many names of ilya rozanov) by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-23
Ilya Rozanov has always understood the power of a name.
On the ice, it’s a threat.
In headlines, it’s a brand.
In Boston, it’s a chant.But in Moscow, it was once a lullaby.
And in Shane Hollander’s voice, it becomes something softer. Something dangerous. Something that makes Ilya want more than he was ever meant to have.From a golden kitchen in Moscow to the roar of Boston crowds, from hotel rooms and tuna melts to hospital monitors and wedding vows, this is the story of how a boy who learned what silence feels like finds someone who refuses to stop saying his name.
And maybe—just maybe—that’s what saves him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,296
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80091786
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You're The Risk I'm Gonna Take It by PumpkinPrincess22
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-14
In a world where Ilya and Shane are already friends by the time of the Draft, what if Ilya had kissed Shane in that hotel gym? And what if that kiss sparked the beginning of a real relationship seven years earlier than in canon?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,781
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79522356
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violence is a love language by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-09
NHL golden boy Shane Hollander has spent his entire life being perfect — the ideal captain, the flawless teammate, the face of the franchise. He’s also spent his entire life hiding.
When a chance encounter in a New York club leads him to Ilya Rozanov, Shane discovers what it means to finally let go. The problem? Ilya isn’t just confident, wealthy, and dangerously attractive. He’s also the heir to the Russian Bratva’s North American empire.
What starts as one reckless weekend becomes something neither of them expected: real, consuming, and worth protecting at any cost — even when that cost includes bodies, lies, and a secret that could destroy everything Shane has built.
Twenty-five years, three Stanley Cups, countless threats, and one question: how far will you go for the person who makes you feel like yourself?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 59,630
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #76720021