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    "Normally I try to stay away from the off-ice stuff - we’re all humans and this is, ostensibly, a hockey thoughts column - but this thing has broken containment. It’s the biggest story in both Canada and the US. It’s on Good Morning America. Trade talks and other rumblings around the league shut down when it broke. I can’t remember the last time hockey has dominated the headlines so much - if it ever has."

    Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov were outed, and traditional hockey media reacts.

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    22 Aug 2026

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    June 2018. Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are about to execute the first step of their ten-year plan, with Ilya signing with the Ottawa Centaurs when free agency begins on July 1.

    Except Shane accidentally, drunkenly, outs himself to the Montreal Metros at the end of the season. Who are not as okay with it as Shane would have hoped.

    AKA the most eventful Canada Day that the MLH has ever seen.

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    22 Aug 2026

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    “Am I too boring for you?”

    He doesn’t mean to ask. Doesn’t mean for those words to come out. They fall from his lips before he has a chance to stop them, and the second they’re out there he wants to take them back. He wants to swallow them down so they can’t hurt anyone but himself.

    Because Ilya…Ilya flinches.

    “What.”

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    21 Aug 2026

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    Ilya backs him into a conference room and slams the door shut just in time.

    "Fuck," Shane breathes, his voice already sounding hoarse. "I didn't think—"

    He clenches his hands, unclenches them, shakes them out—as if somehow he can shake off the heat building beneath his skin. Obviously it doesn't work. He tips his head back against the closed door, and that doesn't work either. All it does is expose the line of his throat, and something in him wants to whimper for Ilya to bite him.

    Or, Shane starts going into heat a day early. Luckily, Ilya's there to help him.

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    19 Aug 2026

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    Shane stares at it, uncomprehending. It’s impossible. He’s not in love.

    And yet, right there on his bathroom floor, announcing his doom like it’s not delicately beautiful, is a small light pink petal, rounded at the bottom with a sharp tip.

    Or: After Shane runs out of Ilya’s house post tuna melt, he develops Hanahaki.

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    18 Aug 2026