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and then svetlana hops out saying "SURPRISE!" anD UH YEAH IT SURE FUCKING IS A SURPRISE WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

WHO ARE YOU

*realizes he just got caught letting himself into ilya rozanov's house with his overnight bag on his shoulder*

Troy calls out Dallas Kent for being a rapist and he’s on the quickest bus to Ottawa. What if he wasn’t alone in that? What if most of the guys who end up in Ottawa get there because of a general refusal to buy in to the leagues bullshit?

one guy throws a punch after hearing a defensemen talk shit about the women he’d been sleeping with. Another refuses to play nice when his teammates are being racist. Never full on social warrior campaigns but a general refusal to put up with ‘locker room culture’ to be part of the ‘good ole boys club. They’re weird. They’re woke. They’re ‘on the bus to Ottawa.’

Ilya goes to a team that’s passionate and angry. They’re good hockey players, can play with the best of them… except they can’t because they refused to play the game behind the scenes. Too good for the AHL and too ‘soft’ for the MLH.

Like Shane, he is very anxious, awkward, and not entirely comfortable with who he is. Shane used that energy to perfect his hockey, Troy used homophobia to hide behind so nobody would suspect him. At the beginning of Role Model, he is like Shane personality wise without the support of a very close circle of family and friends.

Troy’s family background is similar to Ilya’s, at least in how their fathers are. I believe it’s what made Ilya interested in befriending Troy outside of it being his duties as captain. Troy is extremely close to his mother and misses her dearly while she is traveling, which is 100% what Ilya would be like if Irina were still alive.