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Shane Hollander enters his rookie season focused on one thing only: playing the best damn hockey he can, and earning a spot in history as one of the greatest players in the league. Standing between him and his goal is Boston’s own promising young rookie, Alexei Rozanov.
Shane doesn’t particularly care about having a rival, but Rozanov seems as good a choice as any. He’s rude, arrogant, obnoxious off the ice and frustrating on it. And he’s pretty damn good at hockey.
Unfortunately, he also has a younger brother, who Shane finds much more interesting.
The Hollander-Rozanov rivalry is alive and well. And caught in the middle of it, is Ilya.
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Bright Particular Star by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-02
1987. New York Admirals Captain Scott Hunter is fifteen seasons deep into the kind of hockey career most players can only dream of and keeping one hell of a secret. He navigates his life in NYC, intimately aware at every turn that a single photograph or a trace of a rumor could end his livelihood.
Kip Grady has never known how to hide. A grad student and early organizer for ACT UP, he spends his days marching through the Village and organizing mutual aid, fighting for a queer community battling for its life against a devastating epidemic. When their paths cross, Scott is forced to consider the limits of his carefully constructed closet and decide if he is finally ready to stand in the light.
OR: Scott and Kip meet in 80s NYC at the height of the AIDS crisis.
Additional Spoilers HereI promise that these characters do not, at any point, contract HIV: Scott, Kip, Ilya, and Shane.
Scott and Kip, as well as Shane and Ilya, will all have the happiest ending possible given the constraints of the time period.
- Part 2 of Defective
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I'm losing my favorite game by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-24
When the police interrogated him the first time, Shane had told them that it had taken a only a few frantic moments to plan out the daring escape which had eventually earned him his freedom after six long years.
It was also a lie.
- Part 8 of Heated Rivalry AUs
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Homerun to You by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV) RPF
2026-08-03
@baseballnerd44
HE ADOPTED HER AS A ROOKIE???@historybuff617
The adoption story is actually pretty well known around Boston.After he was drafted, Shane flew to Japan to visit his grandparents in Kyoto before reporting to the organization.
On the trip back, he stopped in Paris and met a young woman who was trying to escape an abusive husband.
He helped her get safely to Canada, connected her with organizations that support women fleeing domestic violence, and stayed in contact while she got back on her feet.
When she gave birth by the end of his first year as a professional baseball player, she made the incredibly difficult decision to place the baby for adoption.
Shane adopted her.
Her name is Sofia Yuna Hollander.
- Part 6 of Hollanov Lulu-verse
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-17
His stomach takes a sharp, screeching left. His heart stalls and then shifts into gear, zero to 180, every tired tract of him seizing and squealing to go, run, leave.
“Hey, I found him,” Tony says, finishing a conversation Ilya wasn’t in, easy like all conversations without Ilya are. Easy like the world isn’t ending. Like Ilya isn’t standing there, wishing every time he tried to self-destruct or kill himself had worked.
Greasy black hair. Sallow freckled skin. A turned head and horror-widened eyes taking in the big bad monster who finally arrived onscreen.
“Shane, Ilya; Ilya, Shane,” Tony says, totally oblivious. “You both like hockey, right? So that’s something in common. I’ve got to take lunch, but I’ll check in on you both before my shift is over.”
Nobody knows if Ilya Rozanov tried to kill himself before the draft. Nobody sane goes first overall. And nobody knows if Shane Hollander is going to survive another mediocre season with the Boston Raiders.
Isn’t it funny how a single nick in the ice can change the entire game?
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a white blank page and a swelling rage by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-16
He shouldn't—he's not supposed to call her that. He's seventeen. He's an adult. Mama is for children, for people who are idiots and emotional, for the soft and tender. Alexei is not soft. He is not tender.
He cannot be.
He knew something was happening, had felt the hum of earth under his feet, the rustle of warning in the birdsong of the orenda of the world. Moscow sings, Mama has—had—always said. Open ears will hear the truth of the world if only one will listen.
Still. He had ignored it.
OR: Alexei Rozanov grows up in a home that becomes a grave.
- Part 31 of heated rivalry masterlist
- Part 8 of ghostly ghouls get game
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Blade to the Heart by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-21
The best time to do it, really, would be just before Rozanov headed back to Moscow. His American friends would think he’d headed home early, and his family in the old country would believe he had stayed in the states longer. The confusion would delay the manhunt a precious few days, enough for Shane to be sure he was well away from the fallout.
So that’s when he would do it, he decided. He would kill Rozanov after one of them won Rookie of the Year.
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Shane has successfully gotten away with murder twice by the time he meets Ilya Rozanov, and he’s convinced the man will be his perfect hat trick. After all, such a powerful obsession with Rozanov must go beyond sexual. It must be the urge to kill. It has to be.
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Ilya's life is perfect. He's the captain of the best team in the league, he gets to play hockey with his husband every day, and he finally has the kind of family he only ever dreamed about as a boy.
And then one phone call from Russia changes everything. His brother and his sister-in-law are dead and Ilya has been named guardian of his 14 year old niece in his brother's will.
It's not even a question of whether or not to bring his niece to Canada. Ilya just doesn't expect that navigating life with a grieving, traumatized, and stubborn teenager would be end up being the hardest thing he's ever done.
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- 3/?
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- AO3:
- #78388086
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Shane As It Ever Was by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-22
Ilya wakes with no memory after an eventful night. Or maybe it wasn’t eventful. He doesn’t remember, that’s the problem.
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brátishka by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-10
Sometimes, Ilya Rozanov is just a weird guy. Obviously, the Bears aren’t going to say that to his face, not when he’ll chirp them into oblivion for it, but sometimes it just gets out of hand.
Like the late night phone calls where he’s talking aggressively in Russian. The random knowledge he has offhand about how far you can throw a human being and have them come out okay. The Russian death metal he forces them to listen to, calling it family bonding. The scars he refuses to talk about.
Cliff Marleau thinks he might be in the Russian mob. The Bratva, or whatever they call it.
Ilya doesn't tell his team about his family until they've already invented a thousand conspiracies about it. Like him being in the mob. Or having rabies.
In which Ilya Rozanov and Yuri Plisetsky are brothers, and the world changes with the most minute of connections.
Now featuring Shane and Ilya's POVs on the canon divergence starting from chapter 5.
- Part 3 of crackin' open a cold one
- Part 1 of in all but name
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Dogfish by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-04-07
Hayden has a list of things he knows about himself. He is, in no particular order: a Montreal Metro, a best friend, a sub-par son, and a pretty shitty mennonite. He believes in love, forgiveness, and the grace of God. He doesn't hate anyone.
Except, of course, for Cliff Marleau. Hayden really, really hates Cliff Marleau.
Or: after a game in Boston, Hayden runs into Marleau at the club. Shit ensues.
- Part 1 of dogfish pond
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A day after Ilya asks Shane if he’d marry him when they turn thirty, Ilya’s mother dies. Within a week, Ilya and his family return to Russia, leaving behind nothing but an empty house next door. Eighteen years later, Shane stumbles across a comment on his Instagram that brings back a flood of memories, emotions, and feelings that he’d thought were long buried.
- Part 1 of where we return
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Alligator Bites Never Heal by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-15
His outstretched glove hangs there, frozen, as the noise of the arena mutates into a ringing buzz. Then he’s moving, pushed away by Marlow, and then Boston’s goalie. There’s a flurry of movement, a trainer with a towel, more blood dripping onto the ice, and he just. Stands there. Staring.
Ilya is helped off the ice. Shane doesn’t even tap his stick.
Remember when Sidney Crosby caught a puck with his jaw? That doesn't happen to Shane. That happens to Ilya.
- Part 1 of Alligator Bites Verse
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-Kip Grady Started a Group Chat-
Kip starts a group chat for the husbands and boyfriends of the queer players in the league, and they get along like a house on fire.
Takes place over the course of The Long Game and Role Model.
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one of your eyes is always half-shut (something happened when you were a kid) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-01-21
Shane Hollander is not a small fucking guy; he is all muscle, with big, calloused hockey-player hands and eyes nearly pretty enough to disguise the violence hidden in breadth of his shoulders.
Alexei is impressed.
Not a bad get, for someone fished out of a pool of hockey men who look like thumbs, their noses like squashed tomatoes and ears like boat sails. If it could not be beautiful, nosy bitch Svetlana, if it has to be a man, if it has to be a hockey player, then rich as God Shane Hollander isn’t the worst Ilyusha could have pulled.
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or Alexei is in deep shit. He can’t get to Ilya, so he tries the next best thing.- Language:
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Please don't take my sunshine away by YellowTurtles
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-11
Shane and Ilya have been together for 5 months, and everything is seemingly going well …until Ilya receives a phone call that leaves him overcome with emotions he tried to bury …until Shane feels like he is being an awful boyfriend …until both break down and help each other pick up the pieces. Warning: Ilya calls Shane 'sweetheart' like twenty times and I am not sorry.
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Shane’s heart drops into his stomach. “Ilya,” he breathes. His vision goes blurry, throat tight. He tries to swallow it down and focus, shove his swirling thoughts into a neat little box, but it’s impossible. He feels—he might throw up, actually. “Are you seriously telling me you tried to fucking kill yourself?” “Yes,” Ilya agrees blandly, “It did not work.” Ilya calls Shane from the hospital. Shane handles it very normally.
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my drug is my baby by strandnreyes
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-19
Shane is adamant he’s never been high, but Ilya remembers a loopy Shane in a hospital bed.
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