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State Lines by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-20
Ilya’s brows quirked again, and he flicked open the first page of the textbook, ‘and you decided to learn Russian now because...?’
‘Because I married a Russian man, and I figured it was about time I learned.’
‘You never learned with me.’ Ilya said.
‘No.’ Shane replied, tersely, ‘there was a lot I never did with you.’
Or: After Shane's college relationship ends in heartbreak, he patches up his wounds by marrying a wealthy, older man, and he's so sure his life is perfect. That is, until his ex re-enters the picture, and he wonders if maybe he got it all wrong.
- Part 1 of North of Nowhere
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 84,013
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85074676
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Three rookies. One season. Cameras everywhere. The First Shift is a reality show following the NHL’s hottest rookies from Draft Day through their first year — on the ice, off it, and everywhere in between. Which is a problem for Shane and Ilya almost immediately.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,296
- Chapters:
- 16/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81910611
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Dare You Twice by theaftercare
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-06-13
One delayed flight. One closing airport bar. One truth or dare game that gets significantly out of hand. Ilya Rozanov came to his ex-girlfriend's wedding to prove he was over it. Shane Hollander came to his best friend's wedding to prove he was fine. They were both lying, but they didn't know that about each other yet. Then they had to share a room.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 82,032
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83308221
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Shane Hollander has every aspect of his life under control: his diet, his training, his sexuality.
But when he’s forced to share a room with his rival for the number one draft pick, Ilya Rozanov, he begins to question every rule he thought he had perfected.
Including the one where he would never want a man. Or worse, Ilya Rozanov.
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Or: one year of college changes the trajectory of Shane Hollander’s life.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 91,437
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79622946
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A Mother Always Knows by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-10
Of course Yuna has a burner account, not just one, many in fact. She uses them for her job as Shane’s manager, to keep tabs on hockey news, the league, rumor mills, and on occasion, Rozanov.
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How Yuna comes to care for Ilya through twitter before ever meeting him. AKA Ilya clinches the title ‘favourite son’ arguably before Shane’s parents find out about their relationship.
Spans the entire timeline of Heated Rivalry.
- Part 4 of Ilya&Yuna
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 20,638
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83191651
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we cannot waste time (—only ourselves.) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-08
The photos leak on a Wednesday. Ilya sets his life and career on fire on Sunday, mostly out of spite. On Monday, he is the first out queer player in the NHL.
Nobody handles the ensuing circus well, least of all Scott Hunter.
- Part 1 of Where does such tenderness come from?
- Part 1 of Set in Heated Rivalry-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 221,671
- Chapters:
- 41/?
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #76230141
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honey, tell me, are you good at staying still? by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-07
Life feels so chaotic for Shane sometimes, with all the loud noises and the unwritten rules he’s expected to follow, even though no one ever taught them to him. It’s why the bookstore feels more like home to him than anywhere else in Boston. It doesn’t ask Shane to be anything other than himself. Doesn’t ask for any more than he can give.
He can just exist here.
Shane likes slow, likes taking his time. And Ilya - without saying or doing anything in particular - makes Shane feel like that’s okay. Like he isn’t doing anything wrong by standing still sometimes.
(Or, Shane works in a bookstore, Ilya plays hockey, and they both go to the same college. They fall in love in every universe.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,218
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #86311836
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When Shane reluctantly agreed to kick off his MLH career with a photoshoot, he imagined, somewhat vaguely, a hockey uniform and some dramatic lighting on the rink. Shoot a few pucks. Pose intensely. That kind of thing.
The marketing agency, apparently, had other ideas.
A plane flight gone wrong, a desperate crash landing, and suddenly hockey’s two brightest young stars find themselves stranded in the heart of the Canadian wilderness. With no way home and no rescue coming, they only have one hope for survival -- each other.
- Part 1 of Into the Woods
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,811
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77718331
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Burning My Cathedrals by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-02
In 2016, Shane walked out of Ilya's life and never looked back.
In 2017, Ilya poured gasoline all over his career, struck a match, and walked away from the ashes.
In 2026, their paths cross again at the scene of a car accident that kills Shane’s wife Rose and injures both Shane and his 4 year old daughter, Sophie.
Suddenly, the quiet, unassuming life that Ilya has worked so hard to build for himself crumbles as he confronts the fact that he's never gotten over Shane Hollander.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,880
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85074746
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Hudson and Connor are best friends. Both are in stable relationships, and they’re about to begin filming the second season of Heated Rivalry. But a matching bracelet becomes the breaking point. Not only between them and their partners, but between the two of them as well. It marks the beginning of a deeper realization: what exists between them can no longer be defined as just friendship.
***"Because he’s my best friend," he said through his teeth.
"And I’m your boyfriend," François replied without raising his voice. "But when you’re tired, when you’re scared, when you start to doubt… you don’t choose me."
Silence fell between them again, more unbearable than before.
"I’m not saying you don’t love me," he added, quieter. "I’m saying I’m not the place where your heart comes to rest."
Connor swallowed. His throat felt tight, like anything he said would break something else.
"That’s not fair…"
"Maybe it’s not," François admitted, looking at him with a mix of exhaustion and pain. "But it’s my truth, and Connor, the truth is it hurts like hell to love someone who’s always looking somewhere else."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 346,283
- Chapters:
- 23/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78621231
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bad case of lovin' you by imbihesgay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-26
“Okay, give me five minutes. This patient will not take long.” Luca nods in thanks and scurries off to busy himself in the meantime. Ilya huffs another sigh, shaking his head as he finally pulls up the digital chart. Shane Hollander Age: 27 Height: 177.8cm Weight: 88.5Kg Temp: 36.6 BP: 118/75 -Patient presented with syncope, nausea and vertigo. -shane hollander comes into ilya rozanov's ER, two months after they had a wild one-night stand)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,176
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82018061
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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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,974
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84850786
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Shane leaves professional hockey before locker room homophobia and contractual obligations can destroy him.
Somehow, inexplicably, he winds up on the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team.
He coaches skating for kids in the off season.
For the first time in years, Shane has fun again.
(He doesn't think about Ilya Rozanov or those two nights they shared together)
(He doesn't give Rozanov his number when, years later, they reunite)
(Except actually he does)
(It's the best thing he's ever done)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,835
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83299681
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“Oh my god, oh my god. Seriously, this is the best. I can’t believe you’re my neighbour. I’m calling it now, Hollander. This right here is the beginning of a friendship that will go down in history.” Ilya is 10 years old when his family moves from Jacksonville, Florida to small town Ontario. There, he forms an unexpected friendship with Shane, the boy living on the ginseng farm across the street. As they grow up and grow apart, their paths continue to cross at high school hockey games, in tabloid articles, and at one particular intimate Muskoka cottage. OR: A childhood friends to strangers to lovers AU in which Shane Hollander (up and coming indie rock star) and Ilya Rozanov (brooding artist) take nearly fifteen years to figure their shit out.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 157,018
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77742121
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MONTREAL VOYAGEURS PASS ON HOLLANDER FOLLOWING FINALS INJURY
Despite being projected as at least a top-three pick, Shane Hollander slips to 57th overall after a Grade III ankle ligament tear sustained in the World Junior Hockey Championships earlier this year.BOSTON BEARS SELECT ROZANOV FIRST OVERALL, HOLLANDER IN SECOND ROUND
Boston bets on two of juniors' most electric players; one a sure thing, one a gamble. The Bears have never minded those.Shane Hollander did not get drafted to Montreal. He gets drafted to Boston, fifty-seventh overall, after #1 draft pick, Ilya Rozanov. He has a plan for that. The plan does not account for Ilya Rozanov being the way that Ilya Rozanov is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,262
- Chapters:
- 6/10
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84198041
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Shane Hollander suffers a career ending injury in Metros training camp derailing his pro hockey dreams before they even start. He is forced to come to terms with who he is without his sport and find a new direction. Ilya Rozanov with nobody around to push him has lost his love for the game. More than a decade later, the new team doctor brings up old feelings that never had the space to grow all those years ago, but are now growing out of control.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 164,612
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78323926
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every day is like a battle (every night with us is like a dream) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-19
Historic trades, a stroke of irreplicable genius by Ottawa's management, a confident gamble, and unwavering belief in their talent lead to Ilya and Shane being drafted at No 1 and No 2 to the same team.
Or: the progression of Ilya and Shane's relationship as rivals to teammates to friends to lovers if they had been drafted to the same team, and the story of how Ottawa makes the rest of the league pay for letting them end up with the best two hockey talents in a generation
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 73,222
- Chapters:
- 19/24
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79842836
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Shane Hollander has spent years building a quiet, careful life for himself and his daughter. He just focuses on work, parenting, and keeping Yuki safe in a world that has not always been kind to omegas like himself. Everything changes the moment Yuki slips away from him at a crowded public event and is found in the arms of star hockey player Ilya Rozanov, who handles her with a gentleness that leaves Shane unexpectedly unsteady.
What should have been a brief, awkward encounter becomes something far more complicated. Yuki adores Ilya on sight, and Ilya keeps showing up, offering small kindnesses, sending messages that turn into late-night conversations, and slipping into Shane's life with a warmth that feels dangerously easy.
Shane, who promised himself he would never rely on a stranger, let alone an alpha, finds himself drawn to the one man he should not want.
- Part 1 of The Little Matchmaker Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 209,172
- Chapters:
- 24/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77978466
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When a feral alpha collapses on Shane’s doorstep, instinct collides with fear. Marked by scent, drawn by something neither of them can name, they circle each other in a fragile truce that feels dangerously like fate. or: Shane is an omega with a complicated past, Ilya is a feral alpha who is way too obsessed with him, and what follows involves scent-marking, unresolved feelings, sexual tension, buried secrets and so much emotional damage.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 83,779
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79381371
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Hostile Ice by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-16
Shane Hollander has spent his entire career in careful control - of his image, his privacy, and the parts of himself he wasn’t ready to share with the world. One leaked conversation strips all of that away overnight, and what’s left in its wake is a locker room that’s turned on him, a coaching staff that wants him gone, and an organization that has decided the easiest solution is to make him disappear quietly.
Ilya has been in the league now long enough to understand that some things are too dangerous to want. He has his career, his team, and the laws of his home country to think about. He has very good reasons to keep his distance from Shane Hollander and the storm currently surrounding him. But he’s never been good at doing what he should do.
A story about what it costs to have everything taken from you - your privacy, your safety, your right to tell your own story - and what it looks like to slowly, painstakingly, build something real in the wreckage. About two people who have been circling each other for years finally running out of room to keep pretending. About found family, hostile ice, and the difference between the life you survived and the one you actually get to live.
- Part 1 of The Ice Between Us
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,275
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84813271