skip era

"Jacob [Tierney] was like, 'Great, great, great, great, great. Awesome. So, yeah, just to let you know, there's a whole fourth book where your character has a relentless love, will-they-won't-they with Kip, but he's heartbroken, forlorn, and it never really comes to fruition. So if you can put all of that into two syllables, that would be awesome.'"

90s/early 00s, at some junior hockey thing. Eric’s in college and dating his future wife but not exclusively, questioning his sexuality. Brandon Wiebe is heartbroken over his teammate he was in love with. They made out drunkenly at a party and both thought the other thinks it was a mistake.

One night at the Kingfisher during Common Goal timeline when Ilya is clocking Eric’s tea Eric tells Ilya about he hooked up with a hockey player back in the day. He doesn’t say who. Ilya asks if he’s still playing, Eric says nah he’s retired.