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"I am going to call him," Ilya said.
Or how Ilya drunkenly comes out to the Raiders and they stop him from making a call he'll regret.
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Scott took his sunglasses from the side pocket of his backpack and put them on. His phone vibrated. He pulled it out and there it was: a picture of Kip and Elena from across the street. Kip smiling, Elena pouting. Below it, the caption: "Please don't die crossing this sea of people."
Scott laughed to himself, put the phone away, and pushed the door open.
The screams of excitement crashed over Scott like a wave. Fans crowded the sides of the path, many with tears in their eyes, others with their arms reaching over the metal barricades, everyone wanting a piece of that night. Happy shouts celebrating the victory, hoarse voices declaring their love for the team, words of pride and admiration. Scott smiled slightly, giving a general wave as he walked, sharing looks of gratitude to both sides – until the smile froze on his face.
"THEY TURNED HOCKEY GAY?! SERIOUSLY?! FUCK YOU, HUNTER!"
The voice cut through the air like a blade. Scott swallowed hard, his eyes finding a compact group on the other side of the metal barricades. Not happy at all. Men, mostly, their expressions twisted with hate, being held back by the police officers doing security.
"HOPE YOU DIE, YOU FAGGOT!"
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Ilya Rozanov has watched the gay soccer television show four times.
Every time he gets to the end of episode six, he loops right back around to the first episode again. Would you like to start from the beginning? His TV mocks him with the request. Every time he sees it, he tells himself he won't watch again. But he does.
Again, again, again, again.
It is not helping.
Shane and Ilya end their relationship during the 2017 All-Star Game. Years pass with no contact off the ice.
When a new TV show premieres, following two queer professional soccer players in a years-long secret relationship, the show's success creates a ripple effect through the sports world, leaving both Shane and Ilya wondering about what might have been.
Or: Is this f*cking play about us?
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The Call of the Loon by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-24
The Montreal vs. Boston rivalry is a thing of legend.
Only Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov know what lives underneath it.
When someone calling themselves The Loon begins leaving cryptic and threatening messages, Shane and Ilya understand two things:
Someone knows.
And they cannot ask for help without explaining why.
The Loon believes something sacred has been corrupted.
They intend to correct it.
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Showing Up For Him by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-22
Shane wasn’t his boyfriend. But for a while it had felt like it. They’d been alone in his house. He’d made them tuna melts and watched TV. They’d cuddled like a real couple. And then he had to go and ruin it. Like he ruins everything. The press won't stop talking about Shane and Rose. He's turning into his mother and for some reason, Scott Hunter is the only one who sees him. And it scares him.
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Ilya spirals after the tuna melt scene and engages in self-destructive behaviors. Scott Hunter notices and refuses to go away.
*This is a stand alone fic and is not related to the others in the series.
- Part 3 of Seasoned Gay to the Rescue
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Centaurs Best Halves by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-22
Jane joins the Ottawa Centaurs WAG chat. Eventually, it makes it easier to be brave.
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“I’m sorry,” Shane chokes, closing his eyes. Rozanov draws his hand, pulling Shane’s with it, to his face and wipes his cheeks.
“There is nothing to be sorry for, любовь моя, it is okay,” Rozanov murmurs, tugging at Shane’s hair again. Shane exhales, letting him clean his cheeks. “You got overwhelmed, yes? It happens.”
“I can’t be fucking normal,” Shane says quietly, whining, head falling back, pressing into Rozanov’s hand.
“No, if you were fucking normal, you would not be my Shane.”
// shane is a liar, and he's tired of it all. his life falls apart, and he finds that he doesn't actually mind.
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and that's the thing about illicit affairs by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-21
Hayden Pike's POV of the Scott Hunter kiss, the phone call, Shane coming out, and eventually learning who Lily is.
Hayden watches the man who is climbing down to the ice. He sits up gingerly, careful not to wake the baby or Ruby. “Jacks?”
Jackie sits up immediately, bleary eyed, “What’s wrong?”
Hayden points to the TV, “Uh?”
“He just hopped the boards.”
Hayden’s transfixed as Scott leads the man onto the ice, spins around, and then they’re kissing. On live TV. Scott Hunter, Captain of the New York fucking Admirals is kissing a man on live TV.
“Well you don’t see that everyday. Pretty big night for hockey. And listen to the crowd, they’re loving this. Good for him. Good for Scott Hunter!”
Hayden tears his eyes away from the TV and looks at his wife. “Holy shit.”
“Swear jar, Daddy,” says Jade, already sliding off the couch to go play like the world hasn’t just tilted on its goddamn axis.
Jackie’s eyes are wide and filling with tears, “Oh my god. Oh my god.” She lets out a shaky laugh, “Oh my god. Hayden, Scott Hunter’s gay. Like Shane’s gay.”
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In 2008, Hayden Pike is a rookie Metro trying his best to navigate a new team, a new city, and his new place in the spotlight when he takes home a member of the enemy team, Cliff Marlow.
Eight months later, Hayden meets the woman who would become his wife. A year after that meeting, they would be married and expecting twins. Hayden did not have time to dwell on his chance encounter with Marlow, no matter how life-changing the experience had been.
...until a decade passes, his best friend breaks some major barriers, and someone gets traded to the Montreal Metros.
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Of art lectures and doing laundry by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-19
“Did my team give you shit about you?” Rozanov asked Scott, as they sat at the bar together, both a bottle of beer in hand.
“They didn’t.” It was genuinely lovely to not get a single homophobic comment all game.
“Ok good. You will tell me, if someone says something, yes?” Rozanov was looking at the screen, but clearly meant it. “I will put an end if it happens.”
“Wow. That’s… kind of you.”
“Don’t sound so surprised,” he chuckled, looking at Scott from the corner of his eyes. “I am a fucking delight.”
“You’re a fucking something for sure,” he snorted. “Still appreciate it.”
“Not just doing it for you.” He took a bit of a breath, before all but whispering: “you’re not only queer player in the league.”~
One game day in New York, Ilya opens up to Scott over a shared drink. It's a good conversation, but Scott doesn't expect it to lead to much - until Ilya invites himself and his mystery boyfriend to Scott and Kip's place for a double date.
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love in exile has nowhere to go by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-18
“We’ve made a trade,” Coach announces. “For Shane Hollander.”
It’s like the ground drops out from beneath Ilya, and his heart falls from his chest. It tumbles past rock bottom, down to the cavern that shattered open inside of him on that night five years ago. The night when Ilya walked away from Hollander for the last time.
He can’t breathe.
(Or: Shane doesn’t get hurt, they break up, and they don’t talk for five long years. Until Shane is traded to Ottawa.)
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Alright. Okay. He’s doing this. If he thinks about it, there could be worse places to come out than in a room full of people ready to scold him for a perceived use of a slur.
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Or: Ilya comes out to the Raiders. It takes Cliff Marlow some time, and many questions, but eventually he puts two and two together.- Language:
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All the things they said (running through my head) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-17
After stumbling and falling in the game against the Centaurs, Shane is accused by his teammates and the Montreal Metros management team of throwing the game to Ilya as a result of their relationship being exposed after the FanMail incident.
Shane is forced to give a post-game interview in the midst of a dissociative episode.
Until an incriminating question from a reporter causes the rubber band inside him to snap, and Shane says all the things he shouldn't say.
Except that he actually should.Or,
aka the author ranting about the Montreal Metros/Voyageurs being assholes.- Part 1 of Nobody else, so we can be free
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Ilya Rozanov's life takes an unexpected turn when a deadly plane crash in 2021 takes his life, right after a fight with his long-time partner, Shane Hollander. Though instead of the afterlife, Ilya is sent back to December 2008, just before his NHL career began, on the very day that he first met Shane. He finds himself in a familiar world, with knowledge of both the future and knowledge of the man he loves and the friends he holds dear. As Ilya navigates this new reality, he rebuilds his relationship with Shane, who is still finding his path in both hockey and his identity as a gay man. With their rivalry blossoming into a different experience than the one Ilya experienced the first time around, the two face challenges around acceptance, family pressures, and the struggles of being openly gay and lovers in the sports world. Throughout their journey, Ilya contemplates his first life, cherishes the present, and strives to alter the course of their futures (and the futures of their friends) for the better. Or, Ilya Rozanov discovers first hand what the butterfly effect is, and how it can drastically alter the future.
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the ten step plan by WriteThroughTheNight
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-17
In Vegas, after they’d said everything right up to the edge of I love you, Shane and Ilya came up with a plan. It was long term, with many, many steps. There might be a spreadsheet somewhere that Shane won’t admit to. But it’s a plan, nonetheless. Over the summer of 2014, they tweak it and add things important to the both of them. There are even many, extensive, contingency plans. OR Thanks to Shane's small lie the first time they hooked up, Shane and Ilya are together years earlier. Now, they have to figure out what to do about it.
- Part 2 of the coast is clear
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i only threw this party 4 u by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-16
“I saw your post,” Rozanov says. “Was very subtle. Very Hollander. I liked it.”
His tone is serious. Serious earnest or serious sarcastic? Shane searches Rozanov’s face for clues and finds none. “Thank you?” Shane says eventually. He’s so confused it comes out as a question.
“You are welcome.” Rozanov takes a drink of his beer. “I am bisexual.”
Shane’s jaw drops. The shock is great enough he doesn’t realize for several seconds. Then he snaps it shut, and tries to find words. “Oh,” is all he can say.”
“Yes,” Rozanov says. He’s looking at Shane, enjoying his reaction. “Oh.”
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(Shane comes out. Shane finds out every not-straight man he knows is into him.)
- Part 1 of imma make you my (baby)
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Starting something new by lehnsherry
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-15
“Is there a boy?” Rose asks, feeling a lot of conflicting emotions. A part of her is giddy and curious, and another dreads the answer a little. Shane sighs so hard his shoulders sag, biting his lip and blinking quickly. “There used to be”, he admits. OR: Shane's coming out to Rose goes a little differently.
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When Shane announces to the world that he is signing with the Ottawa centaurs and that he is engaged to Ilya in a post online the response he gets is a little different to what he was expecting...but it was a lot better too
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or the replies and comments on Shane's post at the end of "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas...Mostly"
- Part 3 of Nothing Stays in Vegas
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- Part 3 of Heated on ice
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Rozanov smirked. “Going both ways is most valuable hockey skill.”
“Hey!” Shane objected.
“You have many other valuable skills,” Rozanov murmured. “Let me and Pike have this one, mm?”
Hayden watched, feeling numb, as Shane let Rozanov tug him into a kiss. Oh. Oh fuck. Fuck, that was hot.
“You like watching, Pike?” Rozanov asked, without turning his face away from Shane’s.
“Fuck you, Rozanov,” Hayden snapped reflexively. “… Yes.”Canon-divergent AU where Hayden tells Shane he’s bisexual before Shane gets a chance to come out to him, and things escalate quickly from there. AKA, the Hayden in a Hollanov sandwich smutfic that
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