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Invest in Hope (and Extreme Jealousy)

Summary:

Two NHL superstars. One charity auction.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An internet-wide mental breakdown.
Shane Hollander just wanted to support St. Jude peacefully.
Unfortunately, Ilya Rozanov discovered strangers could potentially have dinner with Shane - and reacted exactly as maturely as expected.
Featuring:
🏒 Shane realizing too late that his likes are public
🏒 public jealousy
🏒 breadstick-related threats
🏒 Hayden Pike’s exhausted parenting commentary
🏒 Scott Hunter regretting every tweet he posts
🏒 accidental marriage reveal

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@HockeyGirl94

SHANE HOLLANDER PRIVATE DINNER??????????

@rozysupremacy

I would sell my organs honestly

@CellySzn

Ilya better be ready because I’m about to become bankrupt

@IlyaRozanov

Hello internet. If you win dinner with me I teach you how eat steak correctly, yes.

@ShaneHollander

Please don’t bankrupt yourselves. It’s for charity.

@IlyaRozanov

No Shane. They can bankrupt little bit.

@HarrisDrover

Already muting my notifications and it’s been four minutes.

@WyattHayes13

How long before Roz gets jealous and starts fighting people in replies

@ZaneBoodram

under 15 minutes

@IlyaRozanov

I am not jealous. Why would I be jealous over dinner with my teammate.

@LucaHaas

Clock started.

@JackiePike

I’m already making popcorn.

@OttawaCentaursFan

ONLY ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS DIFFERENCE LMAOOOO

@ScottHunter44

You people are insane.

@IlyaRozanov

Whoever bid on Shane I respect your charity heart but I dislike you personally.

@BidOnShane87

come stop me then

@IlyaRozanov

Send address.

@ShaneHollander

No one send him your address.

@CliffMarlow

Roz has entered his villain era over a dinner reservation.

@YunaHollander

This is why he was never allowed to play Monopoly with us.

@IlyaRozanov

Because I always won.

@YunaHollander

Because you flipped the board.

@NHLTeaSpill

Not Shane liking every tweet calling Ilya jealous 😭

@ShaneHollander

I’m not liking them.

@NHLTeaSpill

Buddy we can see your likes.

@ShaneHollander

Oh.

@TroyBarrett

Shane discovering public likes in real time is my favourite part of this evening.

@DavidHollander

Yuna says Shane should wear the blue sweater if someone wins his dinner.

@YunaHollander

David stop embarrassing him online.

@IlyaRozanov

No no Yuna continue. Which blue sweater.

@ShaneHollander

Please don’t encourage this.

@HockeyAndHeart

This is genuinely amazing.

@IlyaRozanov

See Shane? Worth little bankruptcy.

@ShaneHollander

I still think maybe people should pay rent first.

@EvanDykstra

That’s why nobody asks you for financial advice, Hollander.

@ShaneHollander

That’s fair.

@NHLBreakaway

SHANE TOOK THE LEAD

@IlyaRozanov

Absolutely unacceptable.

@ShaneHollander

It’s for charity, Ilya.

@IlyaRozanov

Exactly. Charity should choose me.

@ScottHunter44

You sound like a toddler losing a board game.

@IlyaRozanov

Hunter should sleep. It almost bedtime at retirement home.

@ScottHunter44

I’m thirty-two.

@IlyaRozanov

Ancient, yes.

@FansOfPike

Need Hayden Pike commentary immediately.

@HaydenPike22

Jackie and I are watching this instead of TV.

@JackiePike

Our children are emotionally invested now.

@IlyaRozanov

Of course they are. Hayden have enough children start own hockey league.

@HaydenPike22

Not all of us can spend our free time fighting strangers in auction replies.

@IlyaRozanov

I can multitask.

@BidForShaneNow

If I win dinner with Shane I’m asking him what shampoo he uses.

@IlyaRozanov

No.

@BidForShaneNow

???

@IlyaRozanov

Secret information.

@ShaneHollander

It’s not secret information.

@IlyaRozanov

Shane do not share our secrets with internet.

@QueerAthleteMag

Ilya gatekeeping Shane’s shampoo is somehow the least subtle thing he’s done tonight.

@ShaneHollander

I think everyone is reading too much into this.

@LucaHaas

Counterpoint: no they aren’t.

@BrandonWiebeCoach

Reminder to both of you that we still have practice tomorrow.

@IlyaRozanov

Coach this is important charity work.

@BrandonWiebeCoach

You threatened three bidders in the last hour.

@IlyaRozanov

Motivational threats.

@NHLWAGUpdates

Shane being nervous about dinner with a stranger is honestly very endearing.

@ShaneHollander

I just think it might be awkward.

@RandomCentaursFan

Shane you literally talk to the media every day.

@ShaneHollander

That’s different. Media interviews end after five minutes.

@RoseLandryOfficial

Shane is actually painfully polite in person. Someone will ask him one question and he’ll apologize for taking too long answering it.

@ShaneHollander

Rose.

@RoseLandryOfficial

I’m right.

@IlyaRozanov

He also blush when complimented. Very cute, yes.

@InternetLosesMind

OH MY GOD

@ShaneHollander

Ilya please.

@IlyaRozanov

What? I support auction.

@NHLonFire

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS DIFFERENCE AGAIN

@HarrisDrover

I haven’t blinked in two hours.

@SvetlanaVetrova

Ilya pacing around his apartment right now like a tiger in a zoo.

@IlyaRozanov

Lies.

I am pacing around Shane apartment.

@EveryoneOnEarth

?????????????

@ShaneHollander

He forgot his jacket here.

@CliffMarlow

Sure man.

@FanOfChaos

Honestly if I won dinner with Shane I’d just spend the whole night asking how he tolerates Ilya.

@ShaneHollander

I like him.

@FanOfChaos

That’s somehow crazier.

@IlyaRozanov

Shane likes me because I am charming and beautiful.

@WyattHayes13

You forgot “humble.”

@IlyaRozanov

Also humble, yes.

@SportsCenterish

Ilya back in the lead by FIFTY DOLLARS 😭

@ScottHunter44

This feels less like fundraising and more like foreplay.

@EntireInternet

SCOTT??????

@ShaneHollander

Scott.

@IlyaRozanov

Correct statement from elderly man.

@ScottHunter44

I regret everything.

@Bid4RozPls

I want to win Ilya’s dinner just to ask him why he says “yes” after every sentence.

@IlyaRozanov

Because I am sophisticated international man, yes.

@ShaneHollander

He actually picked it up from his grandfather.

@IlyaRozanov

Now internet cannot bully me because Shane make it emotional story.

@ShaneHollander

No one was bullying you.

@IlyaRozanov

I know. But now they extra love me.

@YunaHollander

We do extra love you, sweetheart.

@InternetDetectives

SHANE’S MOM CALLING ILYA SWEETHEART

@DavidHollander

He’s basically ours at this point.

@ShaneHollander

Dad.

@IlyaRozanov

I LOVE THIS FAMILY, YES.

@HockeyInsiderDaily

I genuinely cannot tell if they’re soft-launching something or if this is just how they always act.

@LucaHaas

This is toned down actually.

@NHLFansUnited

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS?????

@HarrisDrover

I’m going to need therapy after monitoring this hashtag all night.

@RoseLandryOfficial

I'm so proud, guys ❤️

@ShaneHollander

Thanks, Rose.

@IlyaRozanov

Rose I need you help. People trying take my husband for dinner.

@EntireNHL

HUSBAND???????????

@ShaneHollander

Ilya.

@IlyaRozanov

Typo, yes.

@HaydenPike22

sure buddy

@BoodramZone

Imagine winning dinner with Shane and realizing Ilya will probably be sitting in the parking lot glaring through the window.

@IlyaRozanov

Not parking lot. I have dignity.

@BoodramZone

Oh sorry.

@IlyaRozanov

I sit at restaurant bar dramatically.

@ShaneHollander

You’re not sitting anywhere dramatically because none of this is real yet.

@IlyaRozanov

Shane if stranger flirt with you over breadsticks I go to prison.

@RoseLandryOfficial

Honestly valid.

@ShaneHollander

Rose!

@RoseLandryOfficial

I’m supporting my friend.

@RandomLAFan

Imagine spending $100k and having Ilya Rozanov third-wheel your dinner.

@IlyaRozanov

Correct.

@NHLQueerFans

I have never seen a man publicly spiral this hard over hypothetical breadsticks.

@ShaneHollander

I promise no one is going to flirt with me over breadsticks.

@IlyaRozanov

You are very pretty. Could happen, yes.

@ShaneHollander

@TroyBarrett

HE DIDN’T DENY SHANE WAS PRETTY

@WyattHayes13

Everybody stay calm.

@EntireInternet

WE ARE NOT CALM

@CentaursCentral

FIFTY DOLLARS DIFFERENCE AGAIN THEY’RE INSANE

@HaydenPike22

Jackie says this is more stressful than the birth of our third child.

@JackiePike

Fourth child. Which honestly proves my point.

@IlyaRozanov

See? Too many children. Hayden lose count.

@HaydenPike22

You literally call Shane “baby” on the ice.

@IlyaRozanov

Different situation.

@NHLTeaSpill

EXCUSE ME??????

@ShaneHollander

Hayden.

@HaydenPike22

What? It’s true.

@IlyaRozanov

Sometimes he score pretty goal and I become emotional.

@FanGirl999

I’m genuinely obsessed with whatever is happening here.

@BrandonWiebeCoach

I’m muting all of you.

@EvanDykstra

Coach is only mad because he had to explain to management why “breadsticks jealousy” is trending.

@ShaneHollander

Seriously, thank you. This means a lot.

@IlyaRozanov

Yes. Thank you for helping children and also emotionally torturing me.

@BidForShaneNow

Ilya if it helps I’d probably just ask Shane about hockey statistics for two hours.

@IlyaRozanov

This actually worse.

@ShaneHollander

He’s joking.

@IlyaRozanov

No I am not.

@DataNerdHockey

Shane would absolutely enjoy talking statistics for two hours.

@ShaneHollander

I probably would.

@IlyaRozanov

I am losing him to spreadsheets.

@SvetlanaVetrova

Not the spreadsheets 😔

@InternetSportsNet

THEY KEEP SWITCHING LEADS

@ScottHunter44

I’m starting to think these idiots are bidding on each other.

@EntireInternet

LMAOOOOO

@IlyaRozanov

Impossible. That would be crazy behaviour.

@ShaneHollander

Yeah. Crazy.

@RoseLandryOfficial

You two are terrible actors.

@NHLGlobal

THIS IS CINEMA

@ShaneHollander

I feel nauseous.

@IlyaRozanov

Because you love me deeply, yes.

@ShaneHollander

Because the numbers are very large.

@IlyaRozanov

Little bit both.

@YunaHollander

David and I are so proud of you boys.

@DavidHollander

Even if one of you is threatening bidders.

@IlyaRozanov

Allegedly threatening.

@HarrisDrover

Legal department just fainted.

@FanWithNoMoney

Can’t believe I’m witnessing the queer hockey equivalent of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

@ScottHunter44

That’s weirdly accurate.

@EveryoneEverywhere

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@IlyaRozanov

Shane if stranger win your dinner I fake my own death.

@ShaneHollander

Please don’t fake your death.

@IlyaRozanov

For romance maybe.

@ShaneHollander

That’s not romantic.

@IlyaRozanov

Disagree.

@EntireInternet

OH MY GOD

@NHLonFire

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS DIFFERENCE IM CRYING

@SportsUniverse

This belongs in a museum.

@ShaneHollander

That’s… a lot of money.

@IlyaRozanov

I win by one hundred dollars. Victory.

@ScottHunter44

Congrats on beating your boyfriend by the price of an airport sandwich.

@RoseLandryOfficial

Oh for god’s sake just tell them already.

@HaydenPike22

PLEASE.

@JackiePike

My kids have been awake past bedtime for this.

@EntireInternet

???????????????????????????

@NHLBreakaway

THEY BID ON EACH OTHER

@HockeyWorldNews

I KNEW IT

@ShaneHollander

In my defence I panicked.

@IlyaRozanov

In my defence I am deeply in love with him, yes.

@InternetExplodes

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@ShaneHollander

Ilya.

@IlyaRozanov

What? It true.

@EntireInternet

MARRIAGE??????????

@NHLHistoryDaily

THE FIRST QUEER MARRIED COUPLE IN NHL HISTORY JUST HARD LAUNCHED THROUGH A CHARITY AUCTION

@YunaHollander

Finally. Keeping that secret was exhausting.

@DavidHollander

I almost accidentally called Ilya my son in an interview six separate times.

@SvetlanaVetrova

I had to listen to these idiots flirt for YEARS. You’re welcome everyone.

@CliffMarlow

Roz really spent $150,500 because he got jealous over hypothetical breadsticks.

@IlyaRozanov

Worth it.

@ShaneHollander

You know we could have just gone to dinner together for free, right?

@IlyaRozanov

Yes but this way children also win.

@ScottHunter44

I hate that this is objectively romantic.

@RoseLandryOfficial

Shane, blink twice if he’s still threatening imaginary dinner guests.

@ShaneHollander

He’s currently arguing with someone in my mentions who said I looked “respectfully handsome”.

@IlyaRozanov

NOT respectfully enough.

@HarrisDrover

I’m resigning.

@BrandonWiebeCoach

Practice still starts at 8 a.m., married or not.

@IlyaRozanov

Coach cannot separate us now. Government legally approve romance, yes.

@HaydenPike22

Can’t wait to explain this entire night to my children tomorrow.

@JackiePike

They already think Uncle Ilya bought Uncle Shane at an auction.

@IlyaRozanov

Correct.

@ShaneHollander

I hate all of you.

@IlyaRozanov

Love you too, husband.

@ShaneHollander

…love you too.

@IlyaRozanov

Disagree, yes.

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