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    There were things about Shane Hollander that existed only in the dark, and those things were most of him.

    or; a moment of vulnerability at a team gathering turns into a viral scandal overnight when a video of Shane coming out is leaked to the press.

    Suddenly, everyone is watching. Everyone is talking. Everyone is judging.

    It all goes to hell—until maybe it doesn't.

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    24 Jul 2026

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    Ilya had dismissed the feeling out of hand, except he has now just spent half an hour in the bicycle shop considering the difference between 190 gsm and 250 gsm merino wool and which would best keep Shane warm while wicking sweat during his morning commutes.

    This is yet another thing Ilya has never done before. The only person whose sweat he has ever contemplated the wicking of has been himself.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Summer, 2021. Shane Hollander is Major League Hockey's hottest free agent. MLH fans and organizations alike must grapple with their expectations: Hollander is not the young man the league discarded in 2017, for better or worse. There is more to his life than hockey, even if he says frustratingly little about his boyfriend, another player known only as Lily.

    When the Ottawa Centaurs lace up for the 2021-2022 season with a stacked lineup, failure is not an option. What the world believes to be the newest iteration of a longstanding rivalry just might be hockey's greatest love story.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    “Hello Centaurs Nation,” the bright and bubbly voice of Ilya Rozanov spills out from the phone speaker, “I am Ilya Rozanov and I am very excited to join team for upcoming season!” He pauses, wielding his trademark wide, slightly lopsided grin like a media trained superweapon. “Today is only my second day on team, but day three of Centaurs Development Camp. As you know, Ottawa got second overall pick. Is very exciting, I have been watching all the Luca Haas clips. He will be something special, I know this.” There's a quiet jingle of car keys. He’d shot the video with his phone propped against the steering wheel of what appeared to be a Land Rover, and the video comes to a close as he turns over the ignition. “Anyway, I have places to be, so I will be seeing you all very soon. Bye-bye!” He offers a jaunty salute before his face smooths out and he focuses on finding the little button to end the recording.

    (Alternatively: Ilya Rozanov signs with the Ottawa Centaurs on July 1, 2018. It is, to some degree, a reckoning.)

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    13 Jul 2026

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    Given everything, Shane allows a tiny hum of agreement. And then he waves for his men to not lower their weapons, but at least their temptation to fire. “Under decree of the statute made in the fourteenth year of the reign of King Louis the Fourteenth, all and every persons whatsoever hereby declared to be principal pirates, felons and robbers—”

    Rozanov lets out a loud, bored sounding noise that interrupts him. “Yes, Hollander, shall suffer pains of loss of life and goods and chattels. I have read it.” The hands that had remained at his side move suddenly, the men of the Voyageur flinching and arming their pistols in response, but only to be presented to them palm up. With another of those terribly mocking grins, he crosses them at the wrists as though already shackled. “I am sorry for betaking that wicked course of life,” he cites the statute verbatim, but with very little respect. “And I have decided to change my ways. I wish now to make my mother and whichever number King you are on very proud.”

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    13 Jul 2026