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The thing is, Morgan muses as she zips up the adaptable sports bra over her mosquito bites that definitely don’t need the support, is that she still can’t shake the belief that a part of her died that day.
- Part 3 of The recognition so richly deserved
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"I'm okay. I'm right here."
"You have not been. You have not been okay, and you have not been right here, and I did not know—"
"Nobody knew. I disappeared, Ilya, I wanted to. I needed to."
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it's been years since ilya saw shane hollander. he's different now.
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Into Focus by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-10-12
A medical retirement took Shane Hollander off the ice, but photography gave him a way to stay close to the game. Now a prestigious editorial photographer, he’s the obvious choice when ESPN revives the Body Issue.
And Ilya Rozanov, fresh off the best season of his career, is the obvious choice for the cover.
They haven’t spoken in nearly seven years. And all the reasons why are suddenly coming back into focus.
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- 5/6
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- 1
- AO3:
- #92606396
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All the world's a stage and Scott has unwittingly been cast as an ignorant Cyrano. If he knew about it, he'd be pissed as hell. Instead, he inexorably falls in love with a man he can't have while unwittingly helping a man he'll eventually call his best friend woo him.
But one man in his time plays many parts. Who knows how this strange eventful history ends?
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- 4/5
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- AO3:
- #89177666
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Mr. Facilities Tech by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-12
Ilya was barely back from the World Juniors and had barely met Shane Hollander when his hockey career was taken from him. He was so close to escaping everything in Russia, only to be caught by his brother, ruined by his father, and forced to marry Svetlana to escape.
Now he's finally on his own, with his shitty studio apartment, his shitty job as a facilities tech in the Raider's Stadium, and his overall shitty life. Nothing could get worse from here, and he has no reason to think it'll get better. Until he runs into Shane fucking Hollander while smoking behind a club, maybe he could get a second chance with the man he's been secretly crushing on for years?
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- 14/16
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- AO3:
- #83603761
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I feel different now than I did before by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-09
The other cottage on the lake - the one of the other side, tucked into the treeline of a cove - existed here before Shane Hollander bought all the land around it and built his own cottage.
The previous owner was one of his favorite people. He truly doesn't expect that to happen again - just as long as they're cordial.
It's just that...really, who could have guessed "the artist" his realtor told him wanted to put down roots is someone that Shane can't stay away from.
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- 2 versions
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- #85838281
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give me no sympathy (it's the mercy I can't take) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-01
When the MLH announces all games are cancelled for the rest of the evening, Shane Hollander knows something is weirdly wrong. There's no precedent for it in league history. A string of messages from Ilya and a phone call from his mother confirm the worst: something has happened, and he doesn't know what.
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The Centaurs plane crash is serious. In the aftermath, life changes for Ilya completely, and Shane has to learn how he fits in.- Language:
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- AO3:
- #81762981
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his sugar baby, his sour coach, his jock bro lady macbeth by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-06-05
Shane and Ilya collide on the ice in 2008, and Shane's career is over before it begins.
In 2014, when they meet each other in a club in Boston, Ilya wants to make it up to him.
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Ilya had a nice life in Providence, Rhode Island. He was married, technically. He was an American citizen. He had a good job. His NHL career, cut short, was in the past and so was his old hook up.
So why the fuck was Shane Hollander standing outside his front door?
A Shane Hollander Courts Ilya Rozanov story.
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In 2016, Shane's career ended; it was also the year he last spoke to Ilya. Nearly a decade later, it’s 2025. Shane is the mayor of Boston, Ilya has just won his fourth Stanley Cup with the Bears, and a celebratory dinner throws them back into each other’s orbit. They’re not teenagers anymore, and no longer interested in almosts or what-ifs. This time, they want to try being partners for real. This is the story of their relationships.
- Part 8 of Inspired By... Hollanov
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- 3/3
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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.
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- AO3:
- #78323926
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Karina Hollander is four when she first learns to skate, eight when she decides she wants to go pro, and twenty six when it all goes down the drain.
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Future fic where hollanov's daughter suffers a career-ending injury
- Part 10 of all dwk heated rivalry fics
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“I will be quick,” Ilya’s voice was unusually quiet. “I wanted to ask…”
“What?” Shane imagined all manner of questions. How are you? Will you ever get better? Is this the life you’re living now, really? Shane fucking Hollander, podcaster? Aren’t you ashamed of this pathetic existence?
“I wanted to ask you out.”
Shane’s brain stopped. He blinked. He might have swayed. “Out where?”
“Out on date.”
“What?”Years later, after winning cups that should have gone to Montreal, Ilya hears Shane Hollander's voice again. On the popular podcast Man in the Crease.
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A hit is a hit.
This one ends Shane Hollander’s career.
Without hockey, there is no rivalry. No opposing locker rooms to build distance. No automatic goodbyes to make loving Ilya Rozanov survivable.
For years, the game decided for them. It set the terms. It gave them an excuse.
Now there is only choice.
As Shane stares down early retirement, rehab, and the terrifying blank space where his identity used to be, the one thing he can’t avoid anymore is Ilya — not across the ice, not in another city, not at the end of a season.
If the rivalry is gone, what are they?
An alternate path in the Heated Rivalry universe where the injury is career-ending, the loss is deeper than bone, and the happily ever after has to be chosen without hockey to hide behind.
Moody. Intimate. HEA.
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Change Your Win Conditions by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-05
Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck.
So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stability was hard to come by, but he was managing.
Then along came Shane Hollander to knock him on his ass, one more time.
- Part 1 of win conditions
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ghosts we've always known by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-01-27
“Seeing you smile like that, it makes me want to give you all of this,” he called out, making a sweeping gesture across the ice.
Shane turned back to look at him, eyes bright, and laughed. “Canadian Tire Centre? I know you’re rich, Rozanov, but an entire arena is a pretty big real estate investment.”
Ilya pushed off, skating to a stop in front of him, knowing his expression had morphed into something serious. “Hockey, Hollander. It should have been yours.”
Or, everything that happens when your dreams don’t come true.
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Shane Hollander hasn't seen Ilya Rozanov in ten years. Not since an injury ended Ilya's career overnight. In that time, Shane has faced reluctant medical retirement of his own, a big career change, and a decade of unfulfilling relationships. When he runs into Ilya at a New Year's Eve party, he can't help but fall back on old feelings. Circumstances have changed a lot, and so has Ilya. But can the two of them overcome old wounds for a shot at a second chance?
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- #77095666
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In which Shane's concussion is bundled with a career-ending leg injury, forcing him to give up the thing he had been working his entire life towards. Instead, Shane goes to university, picks a major, gets a roommate, and tries (and fails) to party, eight-years too old for this shit. He really wishes he was playing hockey instead. Ilya follows.
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- AO3:
- #76802451
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when shane gets the injury that would come to end his career, in the moment he’s just thankful he didn’t break his jaw. or: shane knew, in the abstract, that one day he would play his last professional nhl game. it never occurred to him that hockey would choose that day for him.
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- 5/5
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #75151846