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  1. Rec *

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    Shane has wanted to be a Voyageur since he was eight years old. Over ten years of playing in Montreal, he learns what he has to give up to be a part of the team.

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    5 times Shane felt separate from his team, and 1 time he felt like a part of it. A Shane Hollander character study throughout the HR and Long Game timelines where most of the Montreal Voyageurs really, truly suck.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.

    “Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.

    And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.

    Just once. Just a single nod.

    Why did he have to nod?

    “Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”

    “Of course.”

    Of course.

    “Was it better?”

    “Yes.”

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    Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.

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    24 May 2026

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    Shane can’t look at him. He can’t really look at anyone but he manages to lift his head and stare right back into Troy’s glistening eyes.

    “I never had that advantage, Troy. I never got to take it out on anyone, for any of it. All the times I got on that ice to play some hockey and some… fuckwit idiot like Kent, or whoever was calling me slurs— whether they were gay ones or racist ones… I couldn’t just hurl them back and call it a day like you did.”

    He swallows hard. He thinks he might be sick a little bit in his mouth.

    “You know how fucking lucky you are? To have gotten away with it? They love you, Barrett. This team loves you! You’re fucking celebrated because you overcame this big, terrible thing but for me it’s—”

    He thinks about his mom in that very split second. His beautiful, wonderful mom who’d coached him his entire life on how to be polite, how to be well behaved. How to answer to teachers the right way, to coaches, to cops to the press to the general public to his fucking teammates—

    He looks away. The fight suddenly drains right out of him and he goes back to his bag.

    or: shane decides to confront troy if no one else will

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    13 May 2026

  4. Rec 41

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    Shane lets Rose drag him along to a concert. The night goes nothing like he expects.

    Expectations: The music will be too loud, the crowd too boisterous. He'll have an awful time, but pretend otherwise for Rose's sake while protecting her in the crowd. It'll be fine, Rose will have a ball and thank him for being such a great friend.

    Reality: Rose goes crowd surfing, leaving Shane alone and bewildered in the middle of a mosh pit. Until a hot, inexplicably shirtless Russian guy appears out of nowhere to save him.

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    09 May 2026

  5. Rec 86

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    Hayden’s tics returned three days into the 2021-2022 season. It was his first season without Shane in eleven years.

    Or: Hayden Pike has tics and abysmal self-worth. Being signed onto the Montreal Voyageurs does not help that fact. What does help are the people in his corner.

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    06 May 2026