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  1. First Love/Late Spring by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-10-20

    After the Tuna Melt Incident, Shane and Ilya gradually started drifting apart. Texts became more scarce, hook-ups less frequent and feelings pushed aside until, in the moment of absolute panic, Shane ghosted Ilya fully.

    Now, three years later, Shane Hollander and Rose Landry are engaged. Shane's life finally seems to be going in the right direction. No distractions, great girl, lots of hockey.

    And then the new season starts and trades between teams happen.
    And Ilya Rozanov, whom Shane promised himself to forget, is suddenly on the same team.
    And, worst of all, he becomes the Alternate Captain.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    395,390
    Chapters:
    40/40
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79742816

  2. Every Atom by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-10-20

    They had quietly, in the vacuum that he now realized always existed between them, made a universe. Rearranged their souls and lives into one.
    ---
    Shane Hollander knows that having a soulmate can be a death sentence for his hockey career.

    Ilya Rozanov knows that having a soulmate can just be a death sentence.

    But no one gets to choose their soulmate.

    OR Shane and Ilya shared the deepest kind of soulmate bond that makes it physically painful to separate for long periods but still have to discover what it means to choose each other.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    109,949
    Chapters:
    21/24
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89448801

  3. So You Need a Place to Stay? by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-10-19

    A snowstorm strands the Boston Bears in Montreal with not enough hotel rooms and nowhere to go in their rival’s city.
    On a reckless impulse, Ilya volunteers to stay with Shane Hollander.
    His teammates think it’s a joke.
    Shane plays along.
    No one knows they were in the same bed just hours ago.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    108,495
    Chapters:
    19/22
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #81853816

  4. The Vocabulary of Exile by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    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?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    260,211
    Chapters:
    33/40
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #78926751

  5. campus security by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-10-01

    “Shane, this is Ilya Rozanov.”

    For a world-ending moment, it felt like the ground was falling out from beneath him. The hand he’d been extending to greet the new bodyguard froze in midair, a stab of panic jolting through his entire body.

    Because it was the man from the night before. The man he’d slept with.

    (Shane Hollander is the son of the Canadian prime minister. He is also the captain of his college hockey team. This obscene balancing act is seemingly going just fine, until he accidentally hooks up with his new bodyguard one night at the bar.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    141,034
    Chapters:
    14/14
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #81406536

  6. I'm Coming to the Cottage (No, Not That One) by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Barghest | Barguest (Yorkshire England Folk Tale)
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    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

  7. The Ice Is Colder In Moscow by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-14

    Shane Hollander spends the 2010 Prospect Cup Tournament in a small room, being questioned by police. He thinks that telling the truth will save him. Instead, he’s betrayed by his teammates and pushed to the forefront of a scandal that destroys his chances with any NHL team. Only one professional hockey league is willing to look the other way.

    Desperate to play, Shane Hollander signs a contract with the KHL, packs his things, and moves to Russia.

     

    (Or: As he grapples with a scandal, Shane gives up on the NHL and ends up playing on Ilya Rozanov’s KHL team in Moscow.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    67,894
    Chapters:
    11/17
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85381091

  8. Hit and Miss by

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    2026-09-10

    Shane summons a demon.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    19,710
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91270746

  9. Stupid Canadian Jailbird by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-08-31

    Shane and Ilya get arrested hours after Team Canada wins the World Junior Championship. From one day to the next, their lives are flipped upside down. As prisoners – er, incarcerated persons –, they are no longer climbing the hockey social ladder. They are no longer rival captains and star hockey players bearing responsibility for their nations’ and their future MLH teams’ hopes. They are nothing more than cellmates awaiting trial, caught in a tedious cycle of empty days where privacy is a distant memory. However will they pass the time?

    Good thing they have each other. Now if only they could be honest about their feelings... Ideally, before they're released and face the legal and professional consequences of their venture into crime.

    ***

    OR a fact-ridden, funny, and frustrating romance set in one of the world's least romantic and most devastating environments, courtesy of a prison scholar.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    56,694
    Chapters:
    15/15
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89569931

  10. Your Flight Has Been Delayed by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-08-26

    Ilya Rozanov is many things—a pain in Shane Hollander’s ass, hockey’s biggest playboy, a better chirper in his second language than most people are in their first, the only player who can challenge Shane for the title of “best of his generation.” But when Shane and Ilya get stuck next to each other on a long-delayed flight to the MLH Awards, Shane realizes something else about him: Ilya Rozanov is hot.

    ***

    Shane and Ilya never hooked up at the CCM shoot. Seven years later, they end up on the same flight from New York City to Las Vegas.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    41,240
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Files:
    3 versions
    AO3:
    #89188201

  11. way down under the ground by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-08-24

    Doctoral students Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have been competing for everything since they were on their college's hockey team. They're the best of the best on the ice and in the classroom and, as far as anyone knows, they hate each other. They've also been fucking in secret since they were eighteen years old. But some secrets don't stay buried.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,476
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91275111

  12. A Lesson in Puck Handling by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-08-11

    Shane Hollander had almost made it to morning skate on time.

    Then something ran out in front of his car.

    ---

    Or, the one where Shane finds an injured kitten and takes it to the closest vet, Dr. Ilya Rozanov.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    100,821
    Chapters:
    20/20
    Files:
    5 versions
    AO3:
    #81897986

  13. Between a Rock Climber and a Hard Place by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-08-04

    There, in an overhung area that had been initially blocked from view, was what could only be described as a Greek god in Adidas track pants and La Sportiva Solutions. The god was hanging off a purple sloper with his left arm, shaking out and chalking up casually with his right. Shane barely noticed himself taking a few steps forward as he squinted at the grade. V9. Shane watched as the climber matched his hands and then carefully rotated on his toe to dip his left hand back into the chalk bag swinging at his hips. A little puff of chalk exploded out onto the man’s bare lower back, an area Shane had been trying to ignore, as he always tried to ignore the muscled backs of the bros who tore off their shirt as soon as they got in the gym. His eyes drifted upward, taking in the impressive lats, flexing and glistening with a sheen of sweat, and all the way up to the tousled blonde hair...

    What the fuck. Was that…? Shane blanched as he realized that he recognized the climber. He wasn’t a Greek god at all. He was Russian. And not a god either, but that was besides the point. It was Ilya Rozanov, the top male youth boulderer in Russia, winner of last year’s IFSC Youth World Championship, where Shane had gotten 4th place.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    108,862
    Chapters:
    23/23
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82153141

  14. arms length, small talk, and then some company by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-07-17

    Ilya hesitated, staring at the number. He was captain of Hollander’s new team. It would have been completely normal, if not expected, that he would reach out to him soon. But his hand had turned to lead, his finger hovering over the “Call” button. What would he even say?

    “Hey Hollander. Sorry your team dumped you out of nowhere after building them a dynasty and you’re being shipped back to your hometown to play on an historically shitty team, captained by me, the guy who you’ve been pitted against your whole career and built up a decade’s worth of resentment towards, not to mention the fact that we sucked each other’s dicks that one time years ago and then pretended that it never happened. Haha, yeah, good times. Anyways. See you at practice.”

    —————

    In June 2010, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov hook up for the first and last time.

    In July 2021, Shane Hollander is abruptly traded to the Ottawa Centaurs.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    95,148
    Chapters:
    13/15
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #78777791

  15. i really hope you're gonna get out soon by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-07-11

    “We want you to at least consider waiving your no-trade,” his general manager is saying, but the words barely register in Shane’s head. “Ahead of the playoffs, we want to make sure our team cohesion is as strong as possible, and there have been concerns about locker room dynamics . . .”

    And of course there are. Of course that’s what this is about.

    OR: When Shane comes out to the Voyageurs, a breakdown in team dynamics results in a last-minute trade to their divisional rival. In Boston, Shane and Ilya are forced to figure out whatever it is they're actually doing.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    18,584
    Chapters:
    4/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #80603816

  16. even now. by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-07-04

    After divorce and retirement, Ilya Rozanov finds himself back in Shane Hollander's orbit. It's been thirteen years since they've spoken.

    Ilya finds ways to stay.

    Shane finds ways to let him.

    Or.

    Pathetic Divorced Man Ilya Rozanov spends an increasing amount of time with his ex.

    title from even now by william fitzsimmons

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    109,442
    Chapters:
    33/33
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #86097511

  17. Closer to where you are (is where I must be) by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-19

    “Ilya, what are we gonna do?” Shane says.

    Ilya finishes whatever he has been doing on his phone, and tosses it gently to the bed beside him. He crosses the room to Shane, stands in front of him, squeezes into his shoulders with his big hands, rubbing them like he means to warm them up.

    “Looks like we will have a little vacation,” he says, with a big obnoxious grin.

     

     

    Boston and Montreal are sent to Paris to play against each other in an exhibition series in January 2017. Ilya and Shane decide to stay in Paris for one more night. Just one more night, so they can talk. Maybe finally understand each other.

    They aren't expecting a volcano to erupt in Iceland and close all the airspace in Europe, leaving them stranded there. Together.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    127,267
    Chapters:
    14/14
    Files:
    5 versions
    AO3:
    #82703591

  18. Dare You Twice by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    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

  19. Always Watching by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-12

    Shane Hollander just wants junior year to be simple...win hockey games and maintain his gpa. Maybe finally try to date someone new. When a mysterious invitation shows up in his apartment, and Ilya Rozanov shows up across the hall, all his plans go out the window.

    Or…Shane and Ilya are contentious college hockey teammates in New Orleans who end up living across the hall from each other and things get mysterious and *very* horny.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    95,110
    Chapters:
    12/12
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82278436

  20. According to the Tags by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-06-02

    Shane had stumbled onto this corner of Archive of Our Own entirely by accident—or at least, that’s the lie he was going to tell his agent, his teammates, and God until his dying day.

    —or—

    When Dallas Kent creates a massive PR disaster, rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are handed a corporate ultimatum: fake date each other for the cameras, or sit out a season-long suspension. Now trapped in this shitty situation, they have to map out a public "romance strategy," they have a strict no-touching rule behind closed doors. Too bad Shane is currently treating AO3 tags like a hockey drill, and Ilya is losing his mind.

    ( There are interactive elements within the story! Look out for messages between characters and frames containing information. Just tap or hover on them to see the text messages! and other things just like my other story)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    41,496
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85688586
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