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A Complicated and Nuanced Game by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-25
Shane texts, “Hi! Are you free tonight? I know it’s soon but we’re leaving town tomorrow for a few days, and I’d love to see you.”
Ilya would have made fun of him for that message. Ilya would have just gotten a “come over.” Ilya would have responded “where is romance, Hollander?” and Shane would say, “I’m fucking starting without you.” And Ilya would be at his door in 20 minutes.
Shane doesn’t think that would work on Sveta.
Or: What if Svetlana were Rose Landry?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,281
- Chapters:
- 7/9
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #93267741
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Greywater Peace by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-25
The right thing to do with an unjust war is to lose it. The right thing to do in a battle is to win it. Ilya Rozanov has won every battle and lost the war, which ought, by some reckoning, to leave him twice in the right.
He is sent across the sea as the hostage instead, handed over to the very kingdom he spent eighteen months burning in his father’s name. If the heavens keep accounts, they keep them badly.
- Part 5 of Set in Heated Rivalry-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 118,286
- Chapters:
- 26/29
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87185776
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"We consider ourselves a modern team, inclusive, you know. So we're excited to have someone with Shane's … background," the General Manager of the Montreal Midnighters is saying to his mother, hand clamped uncomfortably on Shane's shoulder.
Rozanov is watching him. His lips are tight, his eyes serious.
Shane looks away.
He's pissed he wasn't first, of course, but he can't be surprised that Boston wanted to go with a more traditional option. Vampires as forwards and wings, weres as defense and goalies. Faes for nothing.
- Part 25 of here a fic there a fic everywhere a fic-fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,723
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #95419271
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Later, he’ll blame it all on a momentary lapse of judgement.
He’ll blame it on the loneliness maybe—on the fact that, despite never having been physically closer to Shane this consistently in his entire life—that despite regularly getting dinner with Shane’s parents—that despite finally having found what he’d spend his entire life searching for he’s also, somehow, never felt more alone.
He’ll blame it on Cliff not texting him back since he’d signed with Ottawa. He’ll blame it on Sveta, face pulled into a perpetual frown during every facetime call.
Or maybe he’ll blame it on Anya—sweet, beautiful Anya—who’d been just a little too cute not to share.
or: Ilya accidentally rehabilitates his image one puppy tiktok at a time
- Part 1 of my moon my man
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,804
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77785331
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Everyone who knows Ilya Rozanov knows how important his family and his gang are to him.
It would surely take something huge to get him to turn his back on them.
or: a Red Dead Redemption 2/Western AU where Alexei takes Metro detective Shane Hollander hostage and damns himself and his gang unknowingly.
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- English
- Words:
- 29,630
- Chapters:
- 6/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #94790286
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So You Need a Place to Stay? by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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
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- 108,495
- Chapters:
- 19/22
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81853816
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It takes the end of the season, a "friendly kidnapping" (that is parent approved), and seven Moscow mules before he'll talk about it, honestly, to Rose.
"It's okay if you're still upset about it," she says, which is a thing she's said before.
Before he always just says he's not. But he's warm and comfortable and they're alone, and he's a little drunk, so he looks out over the view of the city through the glass doors of the balcony and says. "I am so pissed about it."
- Part 13 of here a fic there a fic everywhere a fic-fic
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- English
- Words:
- 5,543
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #94628016
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Rozanov says, "you always keep your mark covered," and Shane desperately wishes they were back to talking about women.
"Yup," he agrees and takes a drink from the ginger ale in his hand just to have something to do. He's going to have to start pretending like it's still got liquid in it soon, if this continues.
"The women I am with always want to see if we are soulmates, they do not do this with you?" Rozanov is staring at him again, right hand raised so that Shane can see the colors shift red and teal and yellow and pink and green and his left hand still down his fucking pants.
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- English
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- 2,852
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #94256926
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Most Europeans who have good magic for hockey stay in Europe. There are a few leagues that don't use magic over there, but most of them do. Russia is famous for it, and famously does shit in the international leagues that don't allow it, and phenomenally in the international leagues that allow it.
Rozanov's powers don't just guarantee him the win. The last Russian with solid Hockey powers who joined the MLH was Varkov, and while he never admitted why he made the switch, it seems obvious to Shane. He still doesn't understand why Rozanov would.
- Language:
- English
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- 1,444
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #94116031
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Shane accidentally destroys his phone during the 2014 MLH Awards in Las Vegas. When Rozanov refuses to kiss or speak with him after they hook up, Shane decides to stop trying to make their not-relationship work. He doesn’t bother telling Rozanov. After all, Rozanov won’t care—he’s made that very, very clear.
(Ilya cares. A lot.)
or, shane drops his phone down an elevator shaft. it changes everything.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 103,130
- Chapters:
- 31/51
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88822026
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The Metros were fine with hiring for diversity but they don’t want him to be the highest paid player on their team. This leads to Shane to think the Metros aren’t where he will be his entire career.
Svetlana knows Ilya, him deciding to come to the NHL, means he wants out of Russia even if it isn’t right away and forces him to apply for a green card.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,981
- Chapters:
- 25/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81038726
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Things Will Turn Around by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-22
Shane fucks up his career, blocks his situationship, begins an ill-advised slut era, gets outed, traded, and forced to rebuild his life. It's kind of a worst case scenario.
Or: The consequences of Shane Hollander's slump.
[Posted as a full, completed fic with art for the Hollanov Big Bang ❤️]
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 68,043
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #87723541
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Ilya suddenly cleared his throat, squared his shoulders, lifted his chin with a strange expression and began reciting poetry in Russian.
Shane's jaw dropped.
“...anyway, he cut his wrists, wrote this poem with his blood, and hanged himself. What?”
Shane closed his mouth, shook his head, and finally said,
“When I came here, I expected a lot of things. I don't know that you'd make me drink litres of vodka or something like that. But not poetry in a cemetery, I admit, I didn't see it coming.”
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NHL 2012 Lockout. Hollander comes to Moscow to play in the KHL and learns two things: Moscow landlords don't particularly like renting to Asians, and Ilya Rozanov has a spare room.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,048
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90801026
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Drawing a Line by LovelyRose28
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-02
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been best friends since they were twelve. They were attached at the hip, as much as two straight guys could be. Everyone accepted that Shane and Ilya were just being Shane and Ilya. Or: Shane and Ilya think they know where to draw the line between straight best friends and whatever the hell they keep doing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,359
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #87404031
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the third option by sevdim
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-29
A teenage Ilya arrives at an elite six-month development programme already planning to kill himself. Shane keeps accidentally interrupting his suicide attempts because he’s obsessed with rules, routine, and following proper protocol.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,099
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84680606
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The Desire for Unsafe Driving by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-24
The summer of the year before Shane reaches free agency, he proposes a road trip. Shane is doing this to soften the blow — he's going to break up with Ilya, Ilya can just tell.
- Part 2 of Hockey Husbands Anonymous Collection
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,353
- Chapters:
- 1/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91263981
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can on a string by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-23
His sister grabs him firmly by the shoulders. “Shane Hollander. My brother, my wombmate, my least favourite twin. I literally do. not. care. if you introduce yourself to this boy or not, but you have been yammering about him nonstop for fucking days and you very clearly want to talk to him, so as your older sister–”
“–I was literally born first–”
“You were removed first, we both know God wanted me to–”
“You were breech and tried to take your fucking placenta with you, I don’t think ‘God’–”
“A girl causes an almost-fatal hemorrhage one time and no one ever lets her fucking forget it! Whatever! The point is that you clearly want to talk to this guy and we just saw him walk over there alone so now is your perfect fucking chance! Just go say hi! Stop overthinking it!”
“Wow, stop overthinking, what revolutionary advice. Thank you so much for that game-changing fuc–”
She punches him in the shoulder hard enough to actually hurt. “Okay how about this, fuckface: either you go introduce yourself to him or I will.”
OR: My brain said what if Shane Hollander had a sister, and then all this happened. Bon appetite.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,874
- Chapters:
- 9/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87693446
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Turn The Other Cheek by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-11
“I turned the other cheek every fucking time. I still got tossed on my ass the second I went too far over the line, and threatened by the commissioner, and told to kill myself on just about every social media platform because my nightmare that I’d get outed came true. And you, after everything you did, got to come out to a supportive team and fans, get a slap on the wrist, and have your happy fucking ending.”
Or:
An exploration of Shane Hollander's struggle against racism and homophobia in hockey, and how others come to understand it
- Part 1 of Shane Hollander Deserves The World
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,365
- Chapters:
- 4/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84085051
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“For the 1998 entry draft, the New York Admirals are pleased to select Scott Hunter.”
- Part 4 of Proving Ground
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,464
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89557821
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BOGO by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-22
A fiery plane crash claims Ilya Rozanov’s life in January. By April, Shane Hollander is dead of a broken heart. The truth dies with them.
Yuna Hollander will do anything to get her son back, including hiring a shady shaman to resurrect him. There’s just one complication — Shane isn’t coming back alone.
Now there are codependent (not)zombies in her house wearing Ilya and Shane’s faces. When they inexplicably act more like a married couple than the bitter rivals she expected, Yuna is convinced that they came back wrong.
It’s easier than admitting she never understood them from the start.
- Part 1 of Double Dipping
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,605
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #87599691