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When Shane was outed half-an-hour before the NHL Draft, he thought it would be the worst day of his life. And when he proceeded to slide all the way into the third round, he wasn’t sure how he would survive. Then his new team banished him back to the OHL for two years until he aged out, and Shane burned at the humiliation.
On his good days, though, Shane could admit that it’d made him stronger. He was a better player now, and more comfortable in himself, and more ready to take the NHL by storm. Every time he’d thought that he was finished, he’d been wrong.
So maybe he’d survive playing on the same team as Ilya fucking Rozanov.
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Shane is outed publicly 30 minutes before the first draft pick is announced. Ilya goes #1 overall to the Boston Bears. Shane is picked #65 overall in the third round… also by the Boston Bears.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,957
- Chapters:
- 3/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90335621
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The Vocabulary of Exile by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-10-04
At twenty-one, Ilya Rozanov is the Soviet Union’s most perfect weapon, a soldier of the Red Machine who has spent three years locked in a silent, jagged war on the ice with Canada’s golden boy, Shane Hollander.
When the Montreal Metros claim him as a "wasted" mid-round draft pick, the rivalry transforms from a professional grudge into a desperate lifeline. On the final night of the 1988 Calgary Olympics, he risks everything, his family, his career, and his safety, to start a new life in the West. Forced into a high-stakes billet under the roof of his bitter professional rival, Ilya must navigate a world where freedom feels like a new kind of prison.
As Ilya struggles to adapt, the crumbling Soviet empire reaches across the ocean, searching for leverage to help pull him back.
OR: What if Ilya fled Russia in 1988 to play for the Montreal Metros?
- Part 1 of Defective
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 260,211
- Chapters:
- 33/40
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78926751
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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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Mr. Answer Man by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-20
In room 1410, Ilya Rozanov is ready to walk out the door after successfully getting his 19 year old hockey rival into bed. He knew how to make this moment happen and he knows what they have to be to each other now that it's over. But as he turns the doorknob to leave, he's stopped with questions he never expected. And giving Shane Hollander what he needs in that moment will change everything.
I note which chapters are SFW vs NFSW, because many of you said knowing meant the difference between reading this on your lunch break or having to wait. (Thank you for wanting to read my work that much.)
Covers the first two years of their rookie seasons (which is mostly skipped over in the show/books). Canon divergent from the first hookup seen in HR s01ep01. Most things are from the show but the timeline is a mix of both; Hunter and Marleau are aged up per the show instead of as young as they are in the books. (Also, Shane and Ilya don't wait *two years*, they stick to the book timeline. IYKYK.)
Please note this will the first in a series; you can subscribe to the whole series as well so you don't miss anything :)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 166,869
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81866486
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Jousting for Hollander by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-07-20
Rozanov: Is this where I hand in my boyfriend application? I have prepared CV, introduction video, letters of recommendation and photo of me in bed with Stanley Cup. With or without clothes, your choice ;)
Lundin: We were supposed to prepare something? I can do that, no problem! How long do we have?
Baldwin: I think he is making fun of the whole thing, can we throw him out?
Rozanov: Is no joke, I have fileshare link ready to send.
Hunter: He is definitely joking.
Baldwin: What are you doing here? Aren’t you getting married?
Hunter: My fiancé insisted.
Hunter: He said, and I quote: “I never thought about adding a third but it’s Shane fucking Hollander, we would be dumb if we didn’t try."
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The world stops when Scott Hunter kisses his boyfriend Kip on the ice after he wins the Stanley Cup in 2017.
The world tilts fully off its axis when Shane Hollander comes out after his third cup win in 2018.
What follows are a bunch of (drunk) Instagram comments, a Rose Landry shaped intervention, a brutal battle between NHL superstars and one precious price on the line: A date with THE Shane Hollander.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,525
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88905596
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for Shane, it was always going to be about love by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-13
Shane Hollander has made all the right decisions. Putting hockey above everything, abstaining from cake and lemonade, and never kissing boys, especially Russian boys with crooked grins who always saw right through him. This restraint has secured Shane a legacy as one of the greatest players of all time. Everything he ever wanted, and somehow never enough.
Ilya Rozanov is long dead, lost to fire and water in a plane crash half a century ago. But at the end of his carefully controlled life, Shane can’t stop dreaming about him, haunted by echoes of what might have been.
Given a chance to change the past, Shane has to decide what really matters: hockey, or the only bad decision he was ever tempted to make.
or: fate and Irina Rozanov have unexpectedly romantic sensibilities, and some lovers (no, Ilya that’s gross) are meant to find each other in every universe.
time travel fix-it 💫 happy ending
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,040
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86223206
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They don't know about us by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-11
When in the 20/21 season Shane is forced to come out, Ilya is not far behind him.
Twitter sees this as a chance to get the two rivals together, with help from their teammates.Except they’re already in a relationship, unbeknownst to everyone.
(Hayden already knows like in the original timeline)
- Part 3 of Alternate Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,206
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88288911
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Clarity by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-27
Shane Hollander expected a lot out of the combine before the 2009 NHL draft: meeting the competition, impressing possible future teams and ultimately securing his spot in the NHL.
What he didn't expect was 50 questions that were about to change his whole damn life.
Or: How an autism diagnosis, a therapist and something magical called communication rebuild the whole trajectory of the Hollander/Rozanov saga bit by bit.
- Part 1 of Therapized Hollanov vs The World
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 145,044
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83680606
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Shane Hollander knew that this thing he had with Ilya Rozanov couldn’t last. There were a thousand reasons why he should walk away and never look back. But maybe hope was enough of a reason to stay. And maybe he wasn’t the only one hoping they could be something more than what they were.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,889
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86975541
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This thing that they have—whatever the hell it is—it’s good. It’s easy. It feels like the only thing keeping Ilya afloat sometimes.
He can’t let it get to a place where it’s more than just a good, convenient fuck and some fun teasing in between. Even if sometimes, in brief moments of tenderness, it already feels like it’s more than that. Or at least like it’s something that can be, if they just let it.
But they don’t. They can’t.
Although sometimes, Ilya does find himself giving in to the urge to look at Shane just a little bit longer, to let his touch be just a little bit gentler, more reverent, than what it would be for something as casual as they claim this to be—albeit sparingly.
Sometimes, just for a moment, he lets himself indulge. He lets some of that affection bleed out of him because he feels like he’ll implode if he doesn’t.
But he always catches himself before it can linger.
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or
where six months of ghosting is shane’s final straw and he cuts contact with ilya after vegas, tired of the wall that just keeps getting higher each time he tries to chip away at it
so ilya is forced to reckon with his feelings much sooner
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,174
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77438971
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Offsides, or How Shane Hollander Ruined His Own Life at a Party in LA by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-18
Shane Hollander is nineteen and trying to get through one Hollywood party without being noticed. He gets noticed anyway, by the worst possible person. His last-minute Halloween costume is working too well. Ilya Rozanov, the rival he's never met but supposed to hate, takes one look and thinks Shane is a girl.
Shane doesn't correct him. He doesn't stop him from kissing Shane. And he accidentally gives him his real phone number. Oops.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,965
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82492281
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So Lily is just a buddy? by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-02
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov never hooked up at the CCM commercial.
Now it's 2017. Yuna Hollander is concerned that Shane doesn't have many friends, so she signs him up on a buddy network website.
Shane gets paired with someone else looking for a 'buddy', not knowing that it's his on-ice rival, Ilya Rozanov.- Part 6 of Hollanov/Centaurs Texting/WAG Fics
- Part 1 of Alternate Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 49,834
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84152481
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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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Select All by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-05-02
Anyway, Shane didn't remember exactly what was in the folder ... But he knew they were all good shots of him.
He hastily clicked open the folder, his eyes barely glancing through the dozen or so shots there, vaguely registering a picture with a sunset background from his condo balcony, something of him laughing, a picture of him working at his laptop with his glasses on...
The director called him again, and he shook his head, the photos blurring. Whatever. It would have to do.
He clicked "select all," then the messages icon, then Rozanov's name. Hit send.
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Or: When never-hooked-up Shane and Ilya have to collaborate on a league charity project, Shane accidentally sends Ilya a nude.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 47,305
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #82939616
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violent ends with friends that go by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-04-15
Whatever this thing with Marleau is, Hayden’s prepared to ignore it. It doesn’t mean anything. It can’t mean anything, because Hayden isn’t gay.
- Part 2 of dogfish pond
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,814
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83197641
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Cinnamon Burn by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-14
Shane and Ilya work at Crowell and Associates Marketing Firm. They have never worked together because their work styles are completely incompatible. A project forces them to spend more time together and explore whether or not they can actually get along.
OR
Ilya is a little shit just because he wants Shane's attention, what happens when he finally gets it?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,110
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81718116
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Sweet and Bitter by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-10
Shane Hollander can’t keep sitting on his couch, nursing a broken leg and watching his team drown without him. He’ll do anything to fill the gap hockey left behind, even something as stupid as competing on Celebrity MasterChef.
Shane wants a distraction so big he’ll forget hockey, forget Rozanov, and especially forget that afternoon in Boston, and the outstretched hand he walked away from. Unfortunately for Shane, ignoring Rozanov won’t be so easy when he’s one table away, wearing a matching apron, and talking to the cameras about the recipes that shaped his childhood.
(Or: Right after the tuna-melt scene, both Shane and Ilya get injured, and to fill the time they both decide to go on Celebrity MasterChef.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,346
- Chapters:
- 3/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82700886
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hollyadmirals24: Male seeking help improving at oral sex. Clean, ready to learn and willing to host. M only. Strictly platonic. Message for details.
or: shane and ilya are hockey players for the mcgill marauders. after a disastrous night with rose, shane puts a drunken ad on craigslist asking for help with oral sex. his teammate, ilya, replies.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 333,333
- Chapters:
- 22/23
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75705736
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things that go bump in the night by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-30
“I’m Shane. Hollander. Vampire hunter,” The introduction would be madness anywhere else. But Shane had ducked out to catch his breath, exhausted from the constant stream of networking and chatter with other vampire hunters. He was a newly minted hunter and beamed with pride to tell anyone about it. He was certain this stranger wouldn’t be scandalised but when he held out his hand, they just stared at it.
“Ilya Rozanov,” he introduced himself, then flashed Shane a wicked smile, “vampire.”
Shane hunts feral vampires. Ilya is a vampire, but Shane's not interested in hunting him - no, he wants something far more dangerous. When the lines of their rivalry start to blur, they find themselves entangled in an age old conflict that will have far-reaching consequences.
- Part 2 of heated rivalry fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,563
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81593171
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In which Ilya works in an adult toy store, and Shane is peer pressured.
OR
How Shane finds himself being fucked by the hot employee who was selling him sex toys.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,512
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77693231