#fascinating story though

HEATED RIVALRY (2025, CANADA)

Episode 1: Rookies

Adapted from Novel by Rachel Reid

This Canadian BL is based on the second book by Rachel Reid's Game Changers Series adapted for Crave by Jacob Tierney in Canada (available for USA on HBO MAX)

Synopsis: 2 Rival Professional Hockey Players, Canadian Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams) and Russian Ilya Rozanov (played by Connor Storrie) have a secret steamy passionate romantic affair hidden by their on-ice animosity.

Here the enemies to lovers prepare to separate as a season ends but what seems contentious at first but when the separation sinks in Ilya needs a much more hands on goodbye, a move Shane falls into with no issue...at first.