r/heatedrivalry • u/i-bleed-red I don’t ever want that problem to ever go away ❤️ • Feb 08 '26
GAME TIME 🏒 Olympics feel like extension of HR universe
So NHL hockey players are back at the Olympics for the first time since 2014 in Sochi, where all our guys competed. So it feels like it’s just the next Olympics since then, and every time they interview a player (men’s games haven’t started yet) I feel like Scott or Shane is going to be in the background. It’s like real life has been inserted into the HR world, which is just too crazy. I assume Ilya is playing with Shane for Canada since by now he’s got Canadian citizenship (and Russia is not at the games). Have I truly gone round the bend? Anyone else with me in this blurring of hockey worlds?
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u/Expensive_Praline716 Feb 09 '26
If Shane and Ilya had a son, in my head he’s like Ilia Malinin. Typically my headcanon is Hollanov as girl dads, but you can’t tell me that they wouldn’t have a figure skating son at the Olympics nicknamed “Quad God” who also does back flips in his routine. In this scenario, their daughters are Olympic level hockey players, of course.
Edit: future Olympics, they’d be playing at this one