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    It'd been easier for Shane to pretend the emotional meltdown that he'd had after their 2014 encounter in Vegas hadn't happened than to bring it up to Ilya. It'd only ever happened that one time. There's no reason to dwell on it or rehash old stuff when both of them are great at aftercare now and have been since they officially got together.

    --or, Shane definitely should've told Ilya sooner

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Shane subdrops after their Vegas session and it takes a while for Ilya to realise.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.

    “Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.

    And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.

    Just once. Just a single nod.

    Why did he have to nod?

    “Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”

    “Of course.”

    Of course.

    “Was it better?”

    “Yes.”

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    Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    The world needs Newton Geiszler, and with that thought in mind, it's Hermann that drifts with the Kaiju instead.

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    21 Jan 2026

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    "It’s not that I find you completely incompetent," Hermann says, startling Newton slightly as he steps just to the left, clumsily sliding down next to him against the steel wall.

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    18 Jan 2026