because of you

"Shane Hollander has only started one fight on the ice" INCORRECT. While yes he fights slightly less than some of the other guys on his team, my dude is still in a full contact sport with some of the most toxic masculinity on this forsaken earth. He has both started AND finished fights on the ice. There is a racist center in Vegas who can't make eye contact with him anymore because Shane knocked out one of his teeth the last time he so much as dared. There are D-men the league over who would never willingly pick a fight with Rozanov because they know what he can do, but who would LITERALLY rather die than pick a fight with Hollander because they've seen the way his eyes go blank when provoked and they don't wanna find OUT what that guy might do to them. There is a rookie in Tampa who will forever live with the memory of having his shit rocked by Shane Hollander, who grabbed onto the scruff of his neck and snarled, "Keep my husband's name out of your fucking mouth, I will not teach you this fucking lesson again." There are wingers in Montreal who are trauma bonded over the experience of watching Hollander jump the boards, point at them, bare his teeth and drop his gloves.

The Righteous Gemstones can be downright silly and sometimes heartwarming and other times shocking from episode to episode, but HOLY SHIT, the first episode of season 4 was an incredible break from the show's usual style.

Heated Rivalry AU where the relationship reveal happens because David Hollander's phone gets hacked and approximately 5,000 pictures and videos of Shane and Ilya being cute (both together and individually) get dumped onto the internet.

Yuna and David asking about the timeline of their relationship would have been even funnier if, after discussing how long they've been "lovers":

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered: