okay but i feel like after they're together and out, ilya and shane are pretty casually touchy. not even pda or anything, but just not even needing to say anything and just nudging the other person out of the way or pulling them to the side in the locker room and knowing it'll be fine and doesn't require an "excuse me" because they're in tune enough with each other to know what the other person wants/is trying to do.
which makes me very heart eyes given ilya's reputation as like. the nhl bad boy: DON'T fuck with him. because i'm imagining maybe a more casual locker room interview (like just something behind the scenes, maybe, for the team's insta or something), and ilya is dialed in and listening and being his usual charming/cocky self and shane in the background is already mentally locking in and is not tagged in for this interview so is largely just doing his own thing because he's not really in frame so also not really registering it happening. it's just background noise to him. and so what's happening from the viewer pov is just watching the russian menace get fully manhandled out of the way without complaint because he has something of shane's in his locker and then automatically holding his hand out without looking because he knows shane is going to hand him his tape to hold for him while he looks for something else so it doesn't get lost.
just very pleased and soft about the idea of the people who are going to lose their SHIT watching Ilya Rozanov, Professional Menace be The Most Domesticated Husband To Ever Husband-
-only to immediately get on the ice and start fights and talk shit like he wasn't the man just not even fully paying attention when shane slipped his metal wedding ring off his hand for him to replace it with the silicone ones they wear during games because shane had them both in his pocket and was changing his out
