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    Shane and Ilya's first hockey camp is going swimmingly, and playing house at his parents' in Ottawa ain't so bad, either.

    Watching Ilya with a line of kids lapping the rink to warm up had given me what I guess straight people refer to as ‘baby fever’. They bring out the kid in him, and not one who’s terrified and deeply sad but one who always wants to play, the side of him that will take wrestling around in bed a little too seriously and always wants to turn everything into a joke or game. He’d led the line of kids, calling after them, “come on my little ducklings!”, each of them keeping a puck handled tightly in front of them, picking up speed and getting a little more challenging each lap. When they’d moved on to slapshots, Ilya stopped the first one to make it into the net before she could go back to the end of the line, telling her very seriously, “Okay, now is most important part: now you say, давай!” He threw up his arms and shouted it, let’s go! The player repeated it and shyly thrust her stick up in the air. He did this with each scoring shot and then at the end with everyone to celebrate that they had finished the drills.

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