Franco Lo Presti is in a new Hallmark Christmas movie- Winter Wonderlanes. It premieres tomorrow, October 23rd. I’ll be watching. Hope you all show up to support him too!

I've seen some posts about recognizing the severity and depth of discrimination within hockey, sports, and society in general. If you're interested in learning more, especially if you're going to be writing fanfiction, you owe it to yourself and others to become aware of the racism problem in hockey and its affects on others. The history of hockey is full of erased players of color.

Black Ice is a documentary based on the book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925 by Darril and George Fosty. It's free on Tubi in the US right now. And it's enlightening, heartbreaking, and hopeful all at the same time.

Although he's not in the documentary, if you're also a fan of Shoresy, you should be aware that Jonathan-Ismael Diaby, who plays Dolo also experienced such vicious hate directed at him and his family that he walked off the ice during a game in Quebec in 2019. And Boston treated him like shit, too (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47394381).

One thing Tierney, Williams, and Chang improved upon was the ongoing microagressions against Shane's Asian-ness. As fans of the books, the series, and possibly hockey, I think it's important that we hear from real live people about how much more serious the issue is.

The only time we advocate for porch pirates is if they bring home the gold in Jacob's honor 🏒

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Mine is that Shane slowly starts almost liking the smell of cigarettes through his relationship with Ilya, the same way he's probably also used to, if not somewhat enjoys, the smell of locker rooms and ice rinks, because they all remind him of something that makes him happy. And when Ilya finally quits, Shane's going to miss the smell from time to time. This hc doesn't matter at all because gun to his head, he will never admit this out loud, especially not to Ilya.

Editing to add: Wow, didn't expect such a conversation to ensue, but I'm glad it's a place to discuss this. I myself am not queer, don't have many gay friends and the sports world is as far away from me as possible, I also don't live in the states and know practically nothing about sports or hockey, so forgive my ignorance with everything to do with that. I've read most of the comments and better understand how devastatingly difficult it would be to come out as gay in the sports world. We're in this mostly fluffy world of HR but I didn't consider or realize the extent to which real life homophobia and cruelty affect people, so I do apologize if my post came across as ignorant. I truly love HR and have such compassion for Shane and Ilya's struggles, even if it's only in fiction form, but this should also be applied to real people who struggle with this reality constantly.

I've been immersed in fan fiction since the show ended, and one thing that I've seen repeatedly is the notion that they can't be hockey players and openly gay. I understand from being in the HR Fandom that the hockey and sports community is very toxic, homophobic and cruel. But...would it be really IMPOSSIBLE or just really really hard and awful and scary? This might be a naive question but it's really been bugging me lately.

Intrestingly I've seen several works of media dealing with being gay and the community recently, and among them HR was the most positive story, though in the show we haven't really gotten the community's reaction like we do in The Long Game. But dammit we're in the 21st century, why is humanity still so stupid and ignorant and cruel to people who just want to love who they love and be themselves? What good does it do us as a society to make other people's lives painful and scary and hard? I always thing of how Shane was so terrified to even tell his parents who love him, and this is all because of how society teaches us that queerness is wrong.

I'd love to better understand the world we live in.

From Nov. 6-30, fans can experience all six episodes of Season 1 on a screen befitting of Shane (Hudson Williams) and Ilya’s (Connor Storrie) cinematic love story with a limited theatrical release at more than 275 Regal Cinema locations nationwide, in partnership with Sphere Abacus and Crave.

By Glenn Garner

Out on blueray!!! I got mines!!

Would you go rewatch Heated Rivalry in theatres? Well, you'll get the chance to next month, when the series's first season returns to select Cineplex locations across Canada. Aisling Murphy, our theatre critic and sometimes Heated Rivalry correspondent, has the details.

Here's a gift link to read the story free and without a paywall. - Moira, Globe audience team

I see in fanfics and etc that people think that Shane and Ilya are cleaning their houses or cooking their own meals or etc:

https://ottawacitizen.com/ottawa-senators/i-have-a-chef-at-home-senators-tim-stutzle-skips-brady-tkachuk-dinner-night-before-big-return
One of the Ottawa Senators' forwards (the team Brady Tkachuk left), Tim said "I have a chef at home" as a funny way of saying that no way in hell would he meet up with Brady (who, in short, is a MAGA asshole who treated the team like shit). Then Tim Stützle's private chef posted:

Also, if any of you are hockey fans, the whole Sens game last night was incredible. The Tkachuk signs and chants were so funny.

Maybe a line that seems off-kilter, slightly bizarre.

One of mine is “I have no problem with sweaty blurs.”

Want to watch HR on the biggest screen possible? You're in luck!

Cineplex is showing a Heated Rivalry marathon on November 8 in theatres across Canada.

It's being reported that episodes 1-6 will be shown separately on November 6, but outside of dates Cineplex doesn't have any further info. Currently, Cineplex has the Coming Soon poster listed on their website, but there is no link to purchase, and I tried setting a variety of theatres in my area and nothing is listed on either date yet. Unless you want to see Cat in the Hat too 😂

Keep your eye on the link to get tickets when they are released ✌️

*It seems the image didn't transfer well from desktop to mobile, it's a bit blurry, sorry!

Picked the most random Netflix series (Unforgettable ) to watch with my meal and bam Dylan Walsh is on my screen.

GC AU where Mr. Hollander plays a New York cop..

Even the universe is like, why are you even trying to watch anything other than Heated Rivalry, lmao.

Not sure if this has been mentioned on here yet but I noticed on audible that the heated rivalry English language audiobook has been delisted. With the recent redubbing of Game Changer, could that mean that we’ll be getting a Cooper North narration of Heated Rivalry very soon?

I know lots of people have been asking about the fleece shipping and saying that no one’s heard anything since the “shipping soon” email on October 1st. But I just received a push notification from Shopify (the “Shop” app) saying that a label has been created for my fleece, so it’s officially just short of being on its way! Did anyone else get theirs?

The actor, who’s written multiple short films, talks about getting in his head about a character who’s an ex-hockey player.

By Nick Romano

source/more fanarts here if you lire my art -> aurorecolore ​✨some are less subtle than others, and the Raiders logo isn’t helping! 😅

Not sure if this is the right space to ask this question but I’d love some SFW Halloween costumes inspired by Heated Rivalry?

I’m kinda new at this company and not sure what the usual Halloween costumes enthusiasm is. I will be speaking to some of my coworkers but thought it’d be nice to have some ideas ⛸️🏒🥅🦆🏡♥️

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We're celebrating queer sports joy in Winnipeg with a variety show on Dec. 5. One of the panelists is our Deputy Premier!

More info: A Heated Rivalry themed variety show, celebrating queer joy and queerness in sport. Where is queerness in joy and queer joy in sport, for real? Hear from a panel of elite athletes about their experiences, Ozoma Azagwara (Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame), Chris Voth (Coach and Researcher),and CEC (Spain's national hockey team).

Also featuring comedy, hot takes and performances of songs from the show by local musician (and hockey player.)

Join us for a fun time full of trans- affirming queer JOY, tenderness and Heated Rivalry related antics.

they will look at season 2 with the same precision as season 1 went. I’ve seen so many tv shows with fantastic season 1 and a mid to low season 2 after.

Reasons as to why it works:
• They will obviously look at the story and decide which scenes/plotlines/subplot will work and thus not add not any unnecessary scenes to fluff up the minutes. As evidenced by season 1, every scene worked right.
• Bigger budget can also mean new lighting, grander scale of locations, thus losing the vibe of season 1. For some shows it works in favor of it. Like Game of Thrones because you need to expand the scope. But small budget means that they choose the set deliberately and get much more out of it. We can’t forget the Russian monologue in that place. It’s such a simple place but it took on a different level when combined with good script.
• More money also means more people to answer to the detriment of the storyline or the cast.

And I can keep going and going on as why it should not. Do you think the same as me and if not, tell me why?

Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials "KGF" somewhere and immediately screamed "kingfisher!" and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.

There's no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.

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I grew up casually with hockey, as you do in Canada, and I’ve been following it a bit more closely in the past couple of years thanks to a mixture of living in a city where NHL games are more affordable than Montreal and Heated Rivalry (of course!).

Can a more involved fan point out to me a recent (or HR timeline compliant) real-world equivalent of Shane’s sponsorships? Like good brands. Because all I see on my feeds right now is Suzuki advertising an insurance company, or Demidov selling an obscure brand of underwear, and I’m just wondering how common Shane’s situation would be. I think I can remember PK Subban lending his face to charity campaigns as well, but the only athlete I remember ever seeing in an actually lucrative ad was an Olympic diver for McDonald’s.

(Guess where I grew up 😂)