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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    Hayden Pike wakes up in Ilya Rozanov's body. The next four days do not go well.

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    01 Apr 2026

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    This is a love letter to the all the millenials like me who played it too careful and forgot to enjoy our youth. Shane and Ilya, enjoy it for me, do good. Fuck it good, fuck it right. Life is too short to live it scared.

    The arena is too loud.
    That’s the first thing Shane notices; not the ice, not the lights, not the jersey on his shoulders that suddenly feels wrong in a way he can’t articulate. The sound hits him like pressure, like something physical, a wall of noise that vibrates in his chest.
    He’s already bent over for the faceoff when it hits him- skates set, stick down, weight forward. His body is exactly where it’s supposed to be even if his brain is still skidding uselessly, trying to catch traction.
    There’s only a split second before the puck drops.
    It stretches.
    He lifts his eyes.
    Ilya.
    Young. So fucking young. Is he dreaming? Not worn by years of hockey, travel, interviews and losses and victories that stack so high they blur together. He’s young again; sharp boned, bright eyed, unable to grow a beard to save his life. Bears black and gold instead of Centaurs red. 'If I look down am I going to be pantsless too?' He thought absently, no way this was real... right?

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    01 Apr 2026

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    Several years into Rozanov’s career, ESPN hires a reporter fluent in Russian.

    Suddenly able to answer questions fluently and with a wide vocabulary, Rozanov’s interviews go viral. Hockey fans around the world get a new look at what they thought about Boston’s #81. This changes not only his public persona, but his whole life.

    Inspired by the look on NBA star Nikola Jokić’s face when he was asked a question in his native Serbian and my own struggles learning a new language.

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    30 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    Ilya didn’t know what to expect on his first day with the Centaurs. He anticipated questions, maybe some awkwardness since he was moving from Boston to boring fucking Canada. Whatever he thought would happen- this was not it.

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    The fic where the Cens are freaking out because they have a shrine to Shane “hockey god” Hollander that they're trying to hide from Ilya Rozanov.

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    30 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    Shane walked out the Emergency Room doors and braced himself against the cold, pulling his coat tighter around him. He had his hospital bag over his shoulder and a to-go cup from the campus Starbucks clutched in his hand. As he rounded the corner to the abandoned courtyard, the smell of cigarettes eventually let him know he was in the right place.
    Ilya was leaning against the hospital’s exterior, looking handsome as ever with a cigarette hanging between his pink lips. He was more settled than when Shane saw him last, now dressed in his civilian attire: a slouchy black sweater and jeans- Shane wanted to bury his face in the cashmere and just breathe him in, somehow missing him even when he’s standing right in front of Shane’s eyes.
    Shane pressed the to-go cup into Ilya’s hand and crowded him against the brick, “You shouldn’t be smoking.”
    Ilya cracked a crooked smile, “Doctor told me is okay. I have bad day so I can cheat.”
    “Oh yeah? Which doctor was that? I happen to know a few.”
    “Me.”

    Or: The mortifying ordeal of being known by your fellow resident.

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    30 Mar 2026