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    Shane didn’t go back to Montreal after the Boxing Day fight.  Instead, he has a panic attack, a revelation, and ends up causing some panic amongst his loved ones.

    Or Shane and Ilya deal with their issues before the plane incident, and how that changes The Long Game.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    @shanehollander24_hockey✅
    It's true.

    ➤ @shaneybaby
    SIR WHAT IS TRUE????

    ➤@shanehollander24_hockey✅
    I'm engaged.
    @shaneybaby
    TO WHOM??
    ➤@shanehollander24_hockey✅
    t's for you all to figure out.

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    @svetlana_v_✅

    ilya domestic ERA

    ➤ @ilyaaaaax81✅

    🤫

    @mlh_puckrabbit

    SIR CARE TO ELABORATE?

    @ilyaaaaax81✅

    no.

    @iloverozzyyy

    WHAT?

    @ilyaaaaax81✅

    no.

     

    exactly what the title says, followed by pure calculated chaos

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    03 Jun 2026

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    After a viral photo outs Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov while they're still busy pretending their years-long situationship is mostly just sex, the fallout gets complicated fast. The world reacts badly. Their teams react worse. Ilya's future in North America starts to look alarmingly fragile, and Shane, who has never met a disaster he didn't try to control into submission, throws himself into fixing what can still be fixed.

    Ilya has spent his whole life being wanted for the wrong reasons and discarded for the right ones. Shane has spent his whole life believing that if he is careful enough, good enough, controlled enough, he can keep disaster from reaching the people he loves.

    A practical solution emerges, then a house, then rings.

    Somehow, by the time they say their vows, both of them are certain they are the only one who means them.

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    27 May 2026

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    "I don't mean to come here and freak you out," Scott said, though he knew there was no avoiding it. He'd been where they were before. It had felt like he was dying, back then. "I just don't want you to think you're the only ones, okay? There's lots of us."

    Their eyes snapped to him in unison, startled and intense. Hollander croaked, "What?"

    "There's over sixteen hundred guys in the MLH and AHL," he reminded them, because it had felt improbable to him when he first heard until he remembered the sheer size of the hockey world. "There's — well, we don't know how many of us there are, but there's at least seventeen of us that know each other. Plus you two. We watch out for each other."

    His eyes enormous, Hollander asked, "There's, what? A secret underground gay hockey network?"

    Scott shrugged. "Yeah, basically."

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    Ilya and Shane find their way into The Tennis Club, a network of closeted hockey players that hook up - so long as everyone keeps it casual. Which is no problem! They can do casual, right?

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    15 May 2026

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    “Ilya, what are we gonna do?” Shane says.

    Ilya finishes whatever he has been doing on his phone, and tosses it gently to the bed beside him. He crosses the room to Shane, stands in front of him, squeezes into his shoulders with his big hands, rubbing them like he means to warm them up.

    “Looks like we will have a little vacation,” he says, with a big obnoxious grin.

     


     

    Boston and Montreal are sent to Paris to play against each other in an exhibition series in January 2017. Ilya and Shane decide to stay in Paris for one more night. Just one more night, so they can talk. Maybe finally understand each other.

    They aren't expecting a volcano to erupt in Iceland and close all the airspace in Europe, leaving them stranded there. Together.

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    14 May 2026