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    At his mom’s insistence that he needs to consider a life after hockey, Shane decides to go to BU and play hockey for the Terriers before going into the NHL, while Ilya, desperate to get out of Russia, goes straight into the NHL. Yet fate has its ways, and Shane stumbles into a friendship with a group of Russian international students. Sometimes life is playing 3D chess just to get you to your person.

    Note: for the purposes of this fic, we’re going to pretend that the recent increase in hockey players playing in college before the NHL instead of major junior hockey happened much earlier in the timeline.

    I have no idea how many chapters this will end up being, but for now it's just the opening part!

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Something both Shane and Ilya understood about hockey, that many other players didn’t, was that what separated good players from the greats was the ability and willingness to plan and engage in psychological warfare.

    Shane and Ilya went about it in different ways but that didn’t change the fundamental truth: to be the best hockey player was to be ruthless.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    "Shane Hollander lives in Canada."

    Or how the Boston Raiders form a task force dedicated to preventing their captain from emigrating for love.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    “No offense,” Cliff says, bluntly, “But I’ve never seen you before. If you’re Rozy’s friend, then why haven’t we ever met you? I don’t think- I’ve never even heard your name before.”
    He’s not prepared for the twist of grief, an expression so wild and an ache so deep Cliff almost recoils– before Shane’s face smooths out again and he returns to looking empty.
    “It’s complicated,” he says, finally.

    When Rozy takes a hard hit in Montreal and doesn’t get back up, Cliff expects he’ll be the only one in the waiting room.
    He isn’t.

    Or: cliff marleau has 2.5 confusing conversations, witnesses a generational crashout, and tries his best; not in that particular order.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Looking across the room to where Troy is on the floor playing with Chiron, Harris starts flailing his arms under the table in the other man’s general direction. He attempts to do this in a manner that won’t alert Ilya, though it probably looks absolutely insane to Troy, who remains oblivious to his distress and need for another set of eyes on this Zoom situation.

    “So you like the idea?” he asks.

    “Not bad. Maybe call it Quaran-team with the Cens?” Ilya floats.

    He continues somehow, and with great effort, to spitball names for the initiative while watching the half-naked guy behind Ilya move through an incredibly acrobatic yoga routine, head remaining just off camera.

    **The pandemic sucks. It raises Shane’s anxiety through the roof, but it also lends him a new point of view, a small existential crisis, if you will… life is too short to keep hiding his love for Ilya. So Shane and Ilya decide to just screw it and be less uptight about protecting their secret. They’re in lockdown anyway, what could happen? Or, five times Shane and Ilya have a Zoom mishap, and one time it’s not accidental at all.

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    21 Jun 2026