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Ilya maintains that the wedding with the Pike children is their wedding anniversary, while Shane insists that the day they got legally married is. Consequently, they each plan the celebrations on the day they feel counts (and it is a constant competition of trying to one-up what the other one planned).

Shane is also of the belief that their relationship anniversary is the day Ilya called himself Shane’s boyfriend for the first time but Ilya counts from their conversation in Tampa, which is when they became exclusive (regardless of the fact that this was not discussed between them). Again, they celebrate both days.

They both want to celebrate the first time they told each other they loved each other but Ilya insists that the time he said it in Russian over the phone counts, so two separate anniversaries it is.

Ilya insists on celebrating the first day Shane flirted with him and Shane agrees because the first day they met is a special occasion, although he still maintains he wasn’t flirting ("Shane, you shook my hand twice" "I am not having this argument again"). So they also mark their draft day, as the first day Shane picked up on the fact that Ilya was flirting.

Of course they celebrate the CCM shoot day, it was their first kiss, their first sexual experience together, the day everything changed, but they also celebrate their anal-versery and the first time they fucked without condoms.

Ilya insists on marking the day they met on the ice for the first time as the first time he beat Shane, so Shane decides the day he won Rookie of the Year (the only award either of them has that the other has no chance of ever winning) deserves to be celebrated.

Shane: you don't know what state the Carolina Hurricanes are in?

Ilya: Well I know from name is one of them.

Troy: I don't think its East and West Carolina, that doesn't sound right...

Ilya: No it is East and West, like East Virginia and West Virginia. Trust me I lived in United States for 8 years.

Dykstra: You never hear about things happening in East Virginia.

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this is CRITICAL to my ilya thesis. ilya consistently tries to care for his father and brother, but he's not making his life choices primarily to please them, because he knows he never will (probably has also benefitted from always having svetlana's voice in his ear saying "your father is an asshole who would have punished you either way"). my headcanon is that the post-draft gala scene is him finalizing this realization, actually: he has literally just been declared the #1 hockey player in the whole world and it's not enough for his father not to humiliate him in front of a whole room full of people and his new boss! it's painful but he's also just like "oh, yeah, wow, fuck this, i'm gonna live my new life. boston's nice, right?"