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  1. The Husband's Out Of The Bag by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-09-20

    “Hollander, go back to your bench or—”

    And… he just snaps. Throwing away the helmet he wasn’t aware he’s taken off, he barks, his voice booming. “That’s my fucking husband laying on the ice. I have every fucking right to he here. He’s my husband. I make the decisions here. If he…”—he can’t bring himself to complete the sentence, his eyes welling up with unshed tears—“If anything happens to him, all of you, every single fucking one of you, will answer to me. And rest assured, if you fuck up because you are too busy yelling at me to get him the help need needs, I will not be as gracious as I am being right now.”

    The uproar in the arena is deafening as the ref finally skates out of his way, but Shane is by Ilya’s side now, his hand clutching his husband's. “I am here, baby,” he repeats over and over again. First in English, then in Russian. “You are okay. You are going to be okay, my love.”

    OR

    (Secret) Married life has been very generous to Shane and Ilya following a drunken night in 2015. Until Ilya collapses on ice, that is.

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    1
    AO3:
    #92977711

  2. The People Around The World Who Knew by

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    2026-09-19

    This is the story about the normal every day people who found out about Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov long before the world was told. This is the story of how the relationship between Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov changed their lives. This is the story of the people who knew, protected, and supported Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov... some for almost for thirteen years.

    OR

    Shane and Ilya were actually horrible at keeping their relationship a secret.

    Language:
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    125,324
    Chapters:
    24/24
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #92545581

  3. instigators by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-17

    Even after getting married, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are still a secret. No one, aside from their most trusted people, knows about their relationship.

    Sick of hiding, they make a plan to soft launch their relationship for the world to lose its mind about it.

    If that goes as smoothly as they plan it, is for their future selves to find out.

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    38,177
    Chapters:
    15/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82854666

  4. Growing Outward by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-17

    “Good, well then that brings me to the real topic of conversation.” Another sigh from Coach Wiebe, “As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, those highlighted names have been offered rookie contracts and they’ve each expressed interest in living with a vet for their first year.”

    Ilya felt his heart fall into his stomach, afraid of the next words to come out of his Coach’s mouth.

    “We asked the rookies who they’d like to live with and, well, LaPointe wanted to board with you, Chouinard. And Young with you, Bood,” Wiebe then turned to Ilya who had frozen on the spot, “And Roz, Haas wants to live with you.”

    Bood and Chouinard chuckled as they watched Ilya’s eyes widen in horror.

     

    OR

     

    Luca Haas was drafted 2nd overall by the Ottawa Centaurs in 2018. Two years later, he anxiously moved halfway across the world to play his rookie season with the team. He requested to live with Ilya Rozanov and they slowly became family.

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    1
    AO3:
    #78592636

  5. to thine own self be true by

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

    Six months before the NHL draft, Shane is forced to come out of the closet.

    Overnight, his meticulously crafted 10-year plan falls apart.

    He finds a way to pick up the pieces.

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    10/35
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    1
    AO3:
    #86554961

  6. Early Mornings by

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    2026-09-13

    In which Shane owns a bakery and Ilya eats so much bread that he triggers a gay awakening.

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    Chapters:
    15/15
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89920776

  7. Beneficiaries by

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    2026-09-11

    Following an afternoon of sex and tuna melts, Shane goes searching for the explicit rules of what being 'friends with benefits' entails. In his humble opinion, they're nailing it.

    Once friendship is on the table, Shane reconsiders the usefulness and immutability of the public rivalry narrative. Surely the NHL can make just as much money from a bromance as it can from a rivalry?

    A missed call from J.J., a dinner at All-Stars, and an ill-considered mad dash to the airport send Shane's season in a very different direction to the disciplined three-peat he'd been planning back in October.

    "This rivalry thing: it was everyone else who said we hated each other off the ice. There’s no rule that says we have to keep doing that forever.” Shane stared outside, past the blinding billboards and down at the streets below. “It was nice. Hanging out, last time.”

    He knew what it looked like when Rozanov shut down, when he closed himself off and pushed the world away. He’d finish the conversation abruptly, curt, clipped, and retreat. So Shane knew he’d won when Rozanov finally answered with: “Are we six years old, Hollander? Asking if I want to play in sandbox with you?"

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    Chapters:
    13/13
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #89157696

  8. for assistance, please call 1-800-go-fuck-yourself by

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    2026-09-10

    Brad Hammersmith @BHammerRaiders
    Replying to @raidersfangirl26 @BHammerRaiders
    @raidersfangirl26 Uh…what did I ever do to you, random teenage girl hockey fan?

    ella @raidersfangirl26
    Replying to @BHammerRaiders @raidersfangirl26
    you skate like bambi on ice and i find it personally offensive. i can recommend a retirement home if you’d like

    Brad Hammersmith @BHammerRaiders
    Replying to @raidersfangirl26 @BHammerRaiders
    What the fuck? I’m 34. And why did you tweet last month that “brad hammersmith looks like he has a not-like-the-other-girls complex but he actually is like the other girls”. What does that mean?!

    ella @raidersfangirl26
    Replying to @BHammerRaiders @raidersfangirl26
    you forgot the part where i said it’s ok to be like the other girls

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    In which a group of unlikely queers terrorizes the whole of the NHL, Boston, Montreal, and Ottawa, but most of all…each other.

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    Chapters:
    16/16
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87664181

  9. the common tongue of your loving me. by

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    2026-09-10

    At the end of the summer—after the cup win, after the cottage trip with Shane's parents, after moving into the exiting expanse of their new house together—Shane and Ilya invite Marley to dinner. They have something to tell him.

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    1/1
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    1
    AO3:
    #92349126

  10. Break Point by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-09-06

    After the tuna meltdown, Shane's plan to win Ilya back in Tampa is a spectacular failure. The cottage never happens.
    So what's left? Rolex still want him at Wimbledon, so why not spend summer in Europe?
    And he'll be sitting next to a Swedish princess.

    Except...The princess turns out to be a Swedish prince. Very charming, very hot, and very gay. And very much into Shane.

    When the photos hit the internet, Ilya is going to have some feelings about that. And way more than Rose Landry to worry about.

    Or: Ilya Rozanov is about to find out what happens when you tell Shane Hollander you're nothing to each other and then have to watch him move on.

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    67,334
    Chapters:
    7/7
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #88683296

  11. Who Do I Have To Fight, Rozanov? by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-09-06

    Despite the *obvious* interest on both their parts (standing naked under a shower makes it hard to hide certain feelings) Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov don’t hook up after the CCM shoot. A few years later, when they’re both Captains of their respective teams, Ilya comes out as bisexual. Shane immediately makes his move to lock down the boy he’s had a crush on all this time, before it’s too late. After a surprise at a post-game press conference and a challenge from the Raiders, Shane has to convince Ilya he is serious about having a real relationship in front of professional hockey and the entire internet. Will it work? There’s only one way to find out!

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    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91849576

  12. the birds and the bears by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-04

    The man doesn’t look phased. On the contrary, he’s acting like it’s completely normal to talk about sex with a stranger.

    “Well, my wife wants me to…” David hesitates, but what damage could it do? Tomorrow, he’ll be on a plane back to Ottawa and he’ll never see this man again. “She wants me to try being more dominant.”

    The Russian grins. “Oh, you have met the right person.”

    Or: In 2014, David and Ilya become friends and start swapping sex advice. It's too bad they don't recognize each other.

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    1/1
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    1
    AO3:
    #91878901

  13. Bright Particular Star by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-09-02

    1987. New York Admirals Captain Scott Hunter is fifteen seasons deep into the kind of hockey career most players can only dream of and keeping one hell of a secret. He navigates his life in NYC, intimately aware at every turn that a single photograph or a trace of a rumor could end his livelihood.

    Kip Grady has never known how to hide. A grad student and early organizer for ACT UP, he spends his days marching through the Village and organizing mutual aid, fighting for a queer community battling for its life against a devastating epidemic. When their paths cross, Scott is forced to consider the limits of his carefully constructed closet and decide if he is finally ready to stand in the light.

    OR: Scott and Kip meet in 80s NYC at the height of the AIDS crisis.

    Additional Spoilers Here

    I promise that these characters do not, at any point, contract HIV: Scott, Kip, Ilya, and Shane.

    Scott and Kip, as well as Shane and Ilya, will all have the happiest ending possible given the constraints of the time period.

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    55,740
    Chapters:
    4/8
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87891491

  14. A House in Nebraska by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-01

    Shane Hollander doesn't know what he is. He knows what he wants. For a long time, he tells himself those are different things.

    Ilya Rozanov knows what he is. He can't control what he wants. For a long time, he tells himself those are the same thing.

    They’re just boys who handle it badly—from a junior tournament in Canada to the NHL draft to the moment a security camera at the end of a hallway changes everything

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    Shane and Ilya are discovered before they even play their first game

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    Chapters:
    15/15
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    2 versions
    AO3:
    #87605006

  15. byzantine by

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    2026-08-24

    Hayden: it's just. you know i love Jackie.

    Shane: Hayden, people on the International Space Station know you love Jackie.

    Hayden: And it means nobody looks too hard at my private life

    Shane has read this message

    Hayden: if I tell you something, will you promise not to tell anyone else?

    ~~~

    Hayden comes out to Shane after the aquarium. Shane comes out to Hayden after tuna melts. Hayden helps Shane (and by extension Ilya) deal with the Tuna Melt Emotional Fallout. Hayden & Ilya (and Yuna & David) visit Shane in the hospital.
    Now with added Jackie POV!

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    17,660
    Chapters:
    17/?
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    1
    AO3:
    #78674071

  16. Hyaline (see-through) by

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    2026-08-24

    Click.
    “Is she with you?”

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    13/13
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    1
    AO3:
    #84692881

  17. like a time bomb in a storm by

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    2026-08-22

    When Ilya set his blades on the freshly surfaced sheet of the Bell Centre at the feet of mostly empty seats, he could breathe for the first time in what felt like weeks. Everything still seemed louder than it had been before he’d been called back to Moscow, but it fell away with the familiar motions. The equally familiar smell of well-used hockey equipment, the reassuring tightness of his gear – forget breathing; Ilya felt like he was waking up from a nightmare.

    It was bliss.

    And then the second period started and the nightmare came crashing back down.

    Following his father’s funeral, Ilya’s senses go haywire and his longing for Hollander intensifies. But Ilya has a career to think of, which has no space for any of that. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas for him …

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    1
    AO3:
    #90634431

  18. forever night stand by

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    2026-08-20

    Ilya shows up wearing Shane Hollander's hoodie to breakfast; the team assumes he had a one night stand with him.

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    1/1
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    AO3:
    #90945926

  19. You Are The Best Thing That's Ever Been Mine by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-08-17

    Ilya being sick accidentally leads to a domino effect which causes Shane, and Hollanov, to come out a year earlier than canon, but on their own terms this time.

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    10,654
    Chapters:
    8/8
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    1
    AO3:
    #90720991

  20. Bisexual! This is great! Me too! by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-08-13

    Old friends Eric Bennett and Brandon Wiebe realize - oh yeah, that time when we were best friends at hockey camp in high school, actually maybe we were boyfriends? They’ve been casual friends for decades since then, but when Eric comes out publicly, Wiebe reaches out. They catch up and debrief life and hockey as bisexual men while Eric enjoys his first year of retirement and Wiebe navigates his first year as a coach.
    Ilya Rozanov is just delighted to have bisexual friends. Even if they don’t always know he’s bisexual too. And since his love language is being a little shit, he badgers them into bisexual solidarity.

    OR:
    They’re all bisexual and talking to each other

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    51,305
    Chapters:
    19/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79037921
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