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    Ilya is breathing in manly shampoo, and his arm is numb, and he’s lived this day already. At least once, but he thinks it could be more. The panic hits him first, slamming him into the scratched plexiglass of his own body. He pushes off of it, and he ends up on the other side of the bed.

    Hollander makes a noise like a creaky door, and Ilya swallows.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Time loopish

    Not a single person on the Earth would be happy to see Ilya with his arm around Shane, and that number includes Shane now.

    Ouch. Lovely and hot and angsty

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    Ilya wanted so badly to just tell Svetlana: It’s Shane Hollander, it’s always been Shane Hollander. He wanted to invite her over after the game so he'd know it was possible for her and Shane to exist in the same room without the world collapsing.

    He was calling Shane back before he even thought about it, his heart in his throat. 

    “Ilya?”

    “Can I invite Svetlana?"

    He could never have expected what happened next.

    Or: Only a few months after the cottage, Shane meets Svetlana—and goes to great lengths to defeat his jealousy.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Best Shane meets Svetlana I’ve read so far.

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    No serious hockey fan or sports commentator worth their salt would have considered record-breaking Boston superstar Ilya Rozanov to be Shane Hollander’s rival exactly, but sleeping with a man who had a specific offense-related vendetta against him and a wrist shot like a jet engine to back it up was probably ill-advised just the same.

    Or, Shane is a goalie. Ilya can’t score.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Goalie Shane. Let’s gooooooooooo!

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    A different woman—in a very different situation—helps Shane understand himself, and for Shane and Ilya to begin to understand each other.

    Or, Hollander and Rozanov are young, dumb and yearning, so they have a threesome: a tuna melt AU.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    It takes a threesome for Shane to really truly realize he’s gay. Maybe a ridiculous premise, but actually funny and sweet and so so believable.

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    Barstool Sports Canada reports that Montreal Metros captain Shane Hollander has started learning Russian from new teammate and Russian rookie Sergei Dovonchezky.

    Ilya has some thoughts. None of them are particularly kind.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Shane starts learning Russian from a new rookie and Ilya completely crashes out. Fantastic