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  1. The Chaos Theorem (or: Shane Hollander needs a nap and a therapist. He got Ilya instead) by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-06-13

    Welcome to the Ultimate Game.

    If you’re looking for a chronicle of redemption or, worse yet, a fairy tale ending with a kiss under the snow, you’ve walked into the wrong locker room. This is the story of a sabotage.

    For ten years, the hockey world has feasted on the rivalry between two captains with the same hunger one brings to a public execution. And us? We served them the blood on a silver platter, while in the shadows of hotel rooms in Montreal or Boston, we exchanged fluids and secrets with the precision of two spies in enemy territory.

    They believe the ice is a sanctuary of heterosexual secrets. They don’t realize that while they were betting on our next elbow to the face, they were witnessing a long, violent decade of foreplay.

    Now, it’s time for El Plan.

    Shane is the butterfly flapping its wings on an underwear billboard. I am the tornado about to level the entire NHL.

    Grab your popcorn. It’s going to be a beautiful massacre.

    My name is Ilya Rozanov, and you can thank me later.

    Or: how Shane and Ilya gaslit the entire world by officially "starting to date" in 2020.

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    Chapters:
    8/8
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #76617896

  2. how to make boys next door out of assholes by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-13

    If there was one thing Ilya was proud of during his time as Captain in Boston, it was the community he created. Yes, they were a good team, but under Ilya’s leadership they’d become a decent one too.

    He didn’t have time for locker room bullshit. Racism. Homophobia. Hazing. It was immature and unnecessary. The first step in having a successful team, in his eyes, was the safety of “his” players. During his first speech as captain, he made it clear that the nonsense would not be tolerated.

    The guys weren’t perfect, but they didn’t ask questions.

    Until, of course, Jeremy Stone joined the roster.

    Or: Ilya is one homophobic "that's so gay" away from losing his shit (and coming out in the process)

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    1,656
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #86438946

  3. Shane, Meet Shovel by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-12

    While enjoying a night out at The Kingfisher, Ilya is sporting some very concerning bruises. After drunkenly revealing to Scott that Jane is Shane Hollander, Scott takes it upon himself to give Shane the Shovel Talk.

    OR

    Scott thinks Shane is abusing Ilya, so he ropes Carter Vaughn and Eric Bennet into kidnapping Shane and threatening to kill him.

    Language:
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    13,785
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85308766

  4. The Rules of Feminism by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-12

    After his Boxing Day fight with Ilya, Shane has a game plan to fix everything. He will come out as Ilya’s boyfriend to a few people, get himself used to the idea that everyone won’t hate him for it, and then think about telling more.

    Rose even has the perfect group in mind for Shane. After all, they were so kind when she and Shane were dating.

    Shane really isn’t prepared to enter his WAG era, but for Ilya’s sake, he will try.

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    27,020
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85746806

  5. A Mother Always Knows by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-10

    Of course Yuna has a burner account, not just one, many in fact. She uses them for her job as Shane’s manager, to keep tabs on hockey news, the league, rumor mills, and on occasion, Rozanov.

    ———

    How Yuna comes to care for Ilya through twitter before ever meeting him. AKA Ilya clinches the title ‘favourite son’ arguably before Shane’s parents find out about their relationship.

    Spans the entire timeline of Heated Rivalry.

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    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83191651

  6. No Longer Bracing by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-08

    After becoming a Boston Raider, Shane was still bracing, waiting for something to go wrong.
    Eventually, however, he realizes he doesn’t have to.
    Ilya has some feelings about it too.

    Language:
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    63,186
    Chapters:
    31/31
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79941521

  7. Shane and Ilya: The Real Story by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-06-07

    Shane and Ilya decide that it's time to come out, so they film a whole documentary.

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    3,665
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    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #86269471

  8. On Their Own Terms by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-06-04

    Before Felix could remove his headphones, he heard it. Heavy, borderline panicked breaths. Felix realized that it must be Hollander. His mic was not turned off when he left the interview. Footsteps. And then a door opening and closing. They had filmed the interview that morning at the offices of the Irina Foundation. It sounded like maybe he had gone into his office.

    “Hey, what is it? What is wrong?” Another voice. Unmistakable anywhere. Even if Felix hadn’t spent weeks now listening to it, he would still have recognized Ilya Rozanov’s voice.

    –

    What if the filmmaker making the documentary about Hollander and Rozanov discovered the truth about their relationship. So he approaches Shane and Ilya about filming them over the course of the 2020/2021 season to create an honest documentary that tells the true story of their lives. Canon-divergent AU set during The Long Game.

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    30,451
    Chapters:
    10/10
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #82042451

  9. Heist of the Century by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-03

    “Cards on the table. Montréal is a good fucking hockey team. They’re also homophobic sacks of shit, and you just outed yourself to the whole world as not only queer, but in love with a Boston Raider.”

    In which Stéphanie Mathieu pulls off the heist of the century, and founds a hockey dynasty along the way.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #86042791

  10. The Great Pretender by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-02

    Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense. The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion. Or: Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander. Shane, for the record, is alive and really confused.

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    31,278
    Chapters:
    6/6
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #84483691

  11. twenty stitches in a hospital room (when the sun came up, i was looking at you) by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-06-01

    He answered the phone, pressing it tight against his ear even as he maneuvered his way through the locker room and toward the hallway. “Hey. Is everything all right?”

    There was a moment of silence, shaky and stiff that worried Scott more than the five separate calls did. Scott’s frown deepened, pulse beginning to hammer beneath his skin. He threw caution to the wind, unable to think clearly over the nausea beginning to roil in his gut. “Kip? What’s wrong?”

    “Is this Scott?” An unfamiliar voice filtered through the speaker and into Scott’s ear, doing nothing to calm the anxiety slowly ratcheting up higher and higher within him.

    Scott paused for a moment in the doorway, not caring if his teammates noticed him. “Who is this? What’s going on?”

    “This is Kip’s dad.” Scott braced himself against the doorframe, stomach clawing its way up his throat.

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    28,185
    Chapters:
    8/8
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #78815026

  12. The Most Hated Man in Hockey by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-01

    It's 2030, and Ilya Rozanov is giving a retirement interview. The interviewer has no idea what secrets she is about to find out...

    (Set in an AU where it was Shane who was the free agent in 2018, not Ilya.)

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    1/1
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    AO3:
    #85959501

  13. Ilya Rozanov is Now Live by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-31

    Post-cottage, Shane and Ilya quickly discover that hiding sucks, so they launch their friendship via a series of chaotic Instagram Lives. It predictably spirals out of control. Ch 1: Friends! Ch 2: …Uh, friends? Ch 3: Definitely not friends.

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    3/3
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #85537816

  14. we had to make our own sunshine by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-05-29

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    Chapters:
    7/7
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83927171

  15. The Night Yuna Hollander Met the Boyfriend by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-29

    A storm strands Yuna Hollander in Boston with no flights, no taxis, and no hotel rooms. Her unexpected rescuer? Shane Hollander’s biggest rival, Ilya Rozanov. But one night in Ilya’s apartment reveals hockey’s greatest secret: the NHL’s fiercest enemies have been secretly, hopelessly in love for ten years.

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    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85743866

  16. i jumped across for you by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-05-29

    Over the summer, Cliff Marlow made the decision to leave the team he won a Cup with, his hometown, and the only place he'd ever known to move to a different country, a terrible team, and basically the middle of nowhere.

    And so far, he hasn't regretted it for a single second.

    Or: a continuation of i know the sound of your heart showing moments from Cliff and Ilya's first season with the centaurs, a couple of shocking revelations (though they really shouldn't have been), and, of course, Cliff Marlow being the most loyal friend anyone could ask for.

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    12,247
    Chapters:
    3/?
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    1
    AO3:
    #85164856

  17. The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-05-28

    A private conversation between Shane and Rose goes viral. No, not that one. Another one. One about unrequited love, undiagnosed autism, and a preference for submission. The fallout will be impossible to handle. Especially because Ilya Rozanov probably saw the entire thing.

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    1
    AO3:
    #85697226

  18. The Ottawa Hint Disaster by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-27

    When the Ottawa Centaurs announce a mysterious new player signing, hockey Twitter turns into a full-scale detective convention. Fans expect trade rumours, chaos, and maybe Scott Hunter. What they don’t expect is Ilya Rozanov accidentally soft-launching his husband in real time. As hints pile up, the internet slowly realizes two things: Shane Hollander is gay, Ilya is catastrophically bisexual, and the NHL’s biggest rivals have secretly been in love for over a decade. Unfortunately for them, their teammates, ex-girlfriend, and social media manager are absolutely no help keeping the secret.

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    1
    AO3:
    #85617836

  19. Cassandras of the Internet Age by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-27

     

    @Rozanov81:

    Ok internet, I have announcement.

    I am getting married in 2 weeks.

    So we are going to play a game, ok? I give you one clue every day, we will see if you can guess

    #SecretRelationship #ILoveYouJane

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    With each new daily clue, the Hollanov fans only get louder. Each clue lining up perfectly with a certain Canadian hockey player.

    However, they still cannot convince anyone. If anything, their overflow of online excitement might make it seem less believable.

    Ilya notices the plight of these modern Casandras of the internet age and, of course, decides to make it worse.

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    Told through snapshots from twitter, Instagram, the Ottawa WAGs group chat and Ilya’s journey into the depths of Reddit to find r/HollanovHQ

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    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85644951

  20. Public Record by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-27

    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.

    Language:
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    16,662
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #84896831
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