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@abbylee🩰: I’m experiencing FOMO with how the Boston fans are receiving so much friendship content with their “boston manwhore roster” (affectionately), so I dare say this is a good time to bring this back….
[video description: the video quality was quite low it was obviously an old screen recording of a instagram story from @boiziaujjofficial’s account, the first slide shows a video showing three men; the three men being obviously drunk out of their minds, the three men were obviously Shane Hollander, Hayden Pike and the account owner himself the man holding the phone JJ Boiziau.
The background clearly indicates that they are at a Japanese Karaoke Room, Hayden Piken is so red-faced holding back teasers as he pats a singing? More like shrieking Shane Hollander to So Sick by Ne-yo, Shane Hollander sang with his heart out with the most heartbroken expression “Gotta fix that calendar I have, That's marked December 15th Because since there's no more you, There's no more anniversary”
“Capitane is really feeling it even changing the lyrics” JJ says as he wipes a fake tear, the man himself in question was also way too out of it slurring his words.
Shane continues singing in the background as JJ lets out a random slur of words of support to Shane. “ I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears. So done with wishin' you were still here”.
The video cuts as Shane Tries to shriek out the next lyrics. The second slide shows a video of the three singing (?) together to Dreaming of You by Selena. “All I have are dreams of you” the once soft melodic melody now turned into something like a heavy metal song with the way they were screaming out the lyrics.
“So I wait for the day and the courage to say How much I love you” the three of them sang as they tried to Harmonize only for them to say the lyrics “yes I do!” a second too early.
The three men continued singing the soft melodic song into some sort of punk rendition as they screamed out the lyrics with much gusto, And when they finally reached the Spanish lyrics the once punk rendition suddenly turned into a telenovela scene.
“Corazón” Shane sings out dramatically, “I can't stop dreaming of you” Hayden whispers dramatically into the mic, “No puedo dejar de pensar en ti” JJ sings in the most french accent of spanish.
“I can't stop dreaming” Hayden dramatically whispers again to the mic this time with matching kneeling poses, “Cómo te necesito” JJ sings out again.
“I can't stop dreaming of you” Hayden whispers out again this time dramatically placing his hand on his chest, “Mi amor” JJ sings with a smile on his face whilst holding his free hand out to the phone camera.”cómo te extraño” Shane says as he follows Hayden’s dramatic antics by clutching his chest dramatically with a pained look.
The last slide then shows a photo of the aftermath the next morning, JJ and Hayden laying down as if they were dead to the world on the couch and on the floor while Shane Hollander sat in the Background nursing a cup of what looks like freshly brewed tea, the photo was captioned “capitane is a beast”]
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@boiziaujjofficial: can confirm that once you get Shane drunk enough, he will start belting out the most heart wrenching R&B songs in the karaoke.
⤷@haydenpikeofficial: if there is one thing Shane can excel in besides Hockey, it is definitely not being a drunk singer.
⤷ @shanehollanderofficial: no comment..
⤷ @poliapop: girl @abbylee🩰 how are you feeling after getting a comment from the trio themselves!!!!
⤷@abbylee🩰: ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY FLOATING TO HEAVEN
@sheinatheshowgirl: the only post where we actually saw Shane Hollander have a personality besides Hockey 😭.
@brandonrock: genuinely cried when JJ archived/deleted this post .
⤷@wendy🥬: girl, momager Yuna Hollander probably had JJ delete/archive that post after Shane secured that one brand deal with beats 😿
@lindastotch: hmmm Shane Hollander speaking spanish, that’s my latino twin right there! 🫵
@8124stangirl: Shane replying “no comment” makes this even better.
@eyekatkon🐱: the only trio ever! 💙🤍
@clarabears🧸: LOL, Yes we boston girls affectionately do callout faves the “boston manwhore roster”
@katnisslark: the concept of Shane being drunk…
@wendyhill: was Mr.Hollander in the “it’s complicated” relationship status during this era with his now future- missus? 👀
⤷ @kikaymina: these videos and photos were uploaded around the years 2014-2015 (the vine era) and Hayden did say on his congratulatory post “finally after years of pining this man has finally decided to put a ring on it!”
⤷ @consanithelex: more Lily and Shane crumbs!!!!
@ginnystanskittenllander: is Miss Lily perhaps a latina baddie??? 😙
⤷@liliana: the way he sang those lyrics, I assume sooo….
@lialikeshockey:thank you momager Yuna Hollander for putting Shane in Hockey Class, we almost lost him to the R&B industry 🙏
⤷@YunaHollander|Momager: You’re Welcome, Though his taste in music did come from me 😊
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“Ilya when should we call Peter from the Law–” Shane stopped dead in his tracks when he entered the living room, Ilya was wheezing and laughing so hard he looked like he was fighting for air.
“What’s so funny?” Shane asked as he approached closer, but that was his first mistake.
Reflecting on Ilya's phone was a video Shane wanted to do nothing but bury down the pits of hell, forever insalavageable. It was the Video of Shane, Hayden and J.J drunk out of their minds at a Japanese KTV celebrating yet another win back in 2014
“Where did you find that!” Shane says as he attempts to grab Ilya’s phone, he was unsuccessful as Ilya gripped the phone like it was the most precious thing ever.
“Uh uh Moy dorogoy you didn’t tell me you are singer!” Ilya says as he tuts Shanes hands away from his phone as he continues to loop the drunken video of Shane singing.
“How did you even find that?!” Shane says as he tries to wrestle his way into grabbing Ilyas phone away.
Ilya wrapped his legs around Shane, “Well Mr. Singer there is this thing called “digital footprint” and a very loyal fan named abbylee with the ballerina shoes”
“Oh god how’d they even still have that? J.J deleted that after he tried to flirt with that one pop singer” Shane says as he admits defeat and settles himself in between Ilya’s legs.
“Well internet is very what you say, uh resourceful when it comes to embarrassing people Moy Dorogoy” Ilya says as he places his head in the crook of Shanes neck.
“Wow resourceful, have you been reading the latest edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary?” Shane says teasingly as he plants a little kiss on Ilya’s temple.
Ilya rolled his eyes at Shanes chirp “Very funny, but comments are more funny look this one is my favorite; “keep that hidden talent hidden please” “
“Fuck off, god even my mom left a comment” Shane says as he scrolled through the comments from Ilyas phone.
“Solnyshko it’s funny, but what’s more funny is you being so lovesick over me that you changed lyrics” Ilya says as he breathed into Shane's neck.
“And I think you speaking spanish is very sexy hmm” Ilya continued as he placed his phone down, he started placing lazy kisses on Shanes neck.
Shane could only close his eyes as Ilya started placing kisses all over his neck, but before things escalated further Shanes phone started to buzz and that broke Shane from the bliss of being held by Ilya so intimately.
“Shit the lawyer” Shane says as he opens his phone to check the message he had initially intended to show Ilya before he got distracted.
The text was from Ilya’s immigration lawyer Atty. Peter Spiegel “Hey Shane! Just a quick reminder on when I can give you guys a call regarding Ilya’s citizenship”
Ilya read the message behind Shane, “we can call right now, the earlier we call the faster I can take you to the bedroom”
Shane could only roll his eyes at Ilya’s dirty joke as he sent a reply to his lawyer confirming he can do a phone call within the hour.
After tidying up and confirming with their Lawyer they sat at their home office, propping their phone up the office table with a phone holder.
The phone rang twice before they answered, Shane let out a deep breath he was nervous of what Atty. Peter was about to say.
Atty. Peter greeted them, “Good Afternoon to you both, had a good day? Well I’m gonna cut the suspense and tell you I have good news”
“Thank god” Shane whispered out, Ilya was holding Shane’s hand and Shane could tell he was also nervous.
“But before that I apologize for not making this a zoom call, just a very hectic day at the office and I really wanted to immediately tell you guys about this news” Atty. Peter continued on, the sound of paper rustling could be heard from his side.
“No worries, we understand and Thank you” Shane says as he squeezes Ilya Hands reassuringly.
“Thank you to you too, so Ilya you were granted permanent residency via the Provincial Nominee Program as per the backing of Local Government of Ottawa after you signed with Ottawa Centaurs, which was a smart move for both parties. Parties in this context being you and the centaurs” Atty. Peter says as the sound of a keyboard was heard as he spoke.
Shane remembers telling Ilya about signing with Ottawa back in 2017 in the very cottage they’re currently residing in, and he remembers telling his parents of the crazy idea in which his Dad the sweet David Hollander immediately called up his college friend who worked in the Ottawa Government office for advice.
Shane Remembers how his Dad’s friend then advised them to try and apply for the Provincial Nominee Program, and he will be more than happy to help them with the whole process.
“And you were granted that Permanent Residency back in 2018 and that’s one box checked off in our end for the citizenship requirements what’s left is that you must have spent 1095 days in Canada in the last 5 years and you must have filed tax returns for 3 years in the last 5 years, and other criterias however these two are most crucial and as sent by Yuna I see that you have already checked off the box for the tax return so we can safely say only thing we have left is the amount of days you have been staying on the Canadian soil” Atty. Peter continued on.
“Does me having away games affect the number of days I’ve been staying here” Ilya asks, he looked serious as he tries to remember the number of days he had to play outside of Canada.
“Well that is one thing we are currently figuring out, but do not worry no matter what happens I will do my best and nothing will interfere with our process not even Russia so just play good hockey and be happy I’ll do the work” Atty. Peter says reassuringly, even without a video feed Shane could see a smile on Atty. Peter Face as he reassured Ilya.
“Thank you Attorney” Ilya says with a smile and he leans into Shane.
Attorney Peter says his goodbyes, “Thank you to you too, I’ll send the documentations via email within the day”
The Phone call ended, Shane felt relief washing over him as if a heavy load was just carried off his shoulders.
“I can be boring Canadian now” Ilya says as he hugs Shane, Shane hugged him back and gave him reassuring rubs.
“Well you also get to marry a boring Canadian” Shane says with affection, Ilya laughed “fortunately I like boring Canadians” and gave Shane a kiss.
If you were to ask the Ottawa Centaurs roster how confident they were to say they knew their Captain, they would probably answer “very confident”.
However, if you were to ask them the same question now, the answer wouldn’t be the same or it would have taken them longer to answer the question.
Zane Boodram knows Rozanov has become a private man when transferred to Ottawa, Long gone was the Playboy Rozanov who was known for being a party animal, though Zane thinks it might just be because everything at Ottawa is dead once the clock hits 9 PM.
There were days where Rozanov felt so close yet so distant, Zane remembers inviting Rozanov for a quick BBQ with the Team and even asked him to bring the special someone he had been hiding for so long.
To his surprise Ilya answered with a smile and a “We’ll see”, Zane hoped he’d finally meet the infamous missus yet his hope vanished when Rozanov showed up alone and with a downcast expression.
Zane immediately knew Rozanov wasn’t his best and even Dykstra noticed the Russians sad mood and tried to lighten up the mood by joking around with the rookies, and Luca, bless his sweet idolistic heart, even tried to cheer up Rozanov.
And then the Plane Accident happened and Zane swears he saw his life flashing before his eyes, and by the grace of the Gods they had survived and that accident made the bond between their team much stronger.
And then the day they arrived back safely on Canadian soil, Rozanov was engaged.
Now Zane had no problem with that, however he would have loved to have hosted the missus (or well mister now) before Rozanov finally got locked down.
So no one can blame him if he were to suddenly arrange a BBQ party to celebrate their captain's engagement.
Ottawa Centaurs (not official gc)
Bood🥩: Well congratulations are in order @Ilya🦆🐻
Bood🥩: and we are proud of you bud!
Nick🦎: CONGRATULATIONS CAPTAIN
Tanner🪵: It’s official, we r the gayest team on the NHL
Luca👶: congratulations cap!
Wyatt🥅: congratulations cap! So when do we meet the mystery man?
Evan🪩: Congratulations Cap! - love from the Dykstra Family
Evan🪩: sooo.. Can I play my beats on the reception? 😎
Lapointe🚍: no, Congrats Cap!
Boyle👮: wooop congrats cappppp
Ilya🦆🐻: Thank you boys, future husband says thanks too
Bood🥩: speaking of future husband, BBQ at my place this friday bring him
Bood🥩: no excuses, the missus says she has to meet the mystery man
Ilya🦆🐻: but u have alr met him!
Ilya🦆🐻: has invitation not arrived yet for u guys?
(everyone has reacted a thumbs down emoji to this message)
Ilya🦆🐻: ok is official canada postal system sucks
Young🍼: wdym we have met the mystery man?!, and congratulation btw cap
Holmberg🍺: i second the motion and congratulations cap!
Troy🎉: congrats man! Heard the good news from Harris
Ilya🦆🐻: yes yes u have met him and thank you again
Ilya🦆🐻: will see u on BBQ
Boyle👮: YOU CAN’T JUST LEAVE US LIEK THAT!!!
Shane should not feel nervous, Shane knows they’d be accepting however the small part of his brain cannot stop him from overthinking every possible interaction.
Shane was sitting at the passenger seat overthinking as he stared into the road as they slowly reached Zane Boodram's driveway, Ilya was driving and Shane could see the worried expression on Ilya’s face.
“They do not bite, no need to worry Moy dorogoy” Ilya says as he parks the car, Shane breathes in and out as he tries to calm his thoughts down.
“The boys are nice and they’ve always wanted to meet you officially” Ilya reassures Shane.
“I know it’s just that my brain overthinks too much” Shane says as he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath to calm his thoughts down.
Ilya observes Shane as he does his little breathing exercises to calm his thoughts, Ilya understands that meeting the team officially as Ilya’s future husband makes Shane feel a little nervous.
While Shane had already met them as Shane he never was properly introduced as Ilya’s significant other, So Ilya does his best to calm Shane down by pressing little kisses on Shane's hands and generally just affectionately touching Shane.
“Ok I’m ready” Shne announces as he gives Ilya a small smile of thanks.
They finally got out of the car and walked to the door, of course they had not come empty handed (Yuna would have their heads if they did) they bought two bottles of wine with them.
Ilya opened the front door and announced their arrival by yelling out, “We’re here!”
A woman with blonde hair neatly placed in a ponytail greeted them “Ilya! The boys are at the back” and gave Ilya a hug.
The blonde’s eyes then went to Shane and she immediately smiled, “and you must be the future husband! The names Cassie, Boodrams wife”.
Shane smiled back and introduced himself “Yeah in the flesh, Shane” as he extended his hand for a handshake.
Cassie smiled and let out a heartful laugh “I take you’re not a hugger, well it’s finally nice to meet you officially Shane do excuse the mess” she says as she took Shane’s hands.
Shane immediately liked cassie, she gave this motherly and supportive radiant aura that it comforted Shane.
Ilya hands Cassie the wine, “oh my you didn’t have to! And I know this was probably not your idea Ilya”
“Yeah my mom would kill me if we came in empty handed, something about first impressions” Shane says as Cassie receives the wine bottles.
“Well she is right! But you didn’t have to” Cassie says as she gives another smile to them both.
“Well I better place this in the kitchen, I won’t keep you long they boys are at the back and Ilya I trust you know your way around the house”
“Yes ma’am” Ilya replied and took Shane’s hand guiding him towards the back.
“Oh and congratulations to you two!” Cassie yells as she enters the kitchen.
“Thank you Cassie!" Ilya yells back with a grin.
“Well that was a good start” Shane says as he squeezes Ilya’s hands as they walk towards the back where Shane can faintly hear the sound of hockey players enjoying the BBQ.
“And it will be much better with the team” Ilya reassures as he squeezes Shane's hand back.
Shane smiled and braced himself for the re-introduction with Ilya’s team.
They’ve finally reached the backyard and Shane could now clearly hear the chaos. He could see Luca and Wyatt animatedly talking about comics, Zane manning the barbeque with Dykstra Hovering and Holmberg nursing a beer as he stands next to Troy and Nick.
Charles Boyle the rookie spotted them first before everyone else, “Well fuck me with a chainsaw is that Shane Hollander!”
Shane was confused if he should be considered with the rookie swearing or be shy with the attention he was getting.
“Clint pinch me now, I think I might be dreaming how Shane Hollander is here” The rookie Young says towards another rookie named Lapointe. “No Ethan, that really is THE Shane Hollander in the flesh”. Shane was concerned with how both rookies were just rough housing at the edge of the pool.
Luca Haas’s mouth was wide open, The older players were just grinning.
“Well well well If it isn’t our men of the hour!” Zane says as he greets the couple with open arms.
“Glad you could finally make it you two” Evan Says with a grin.
“Congratulations you two” Troy says with a smile as he comes closer to them.
“Somoene bring the rookies back to real life” Wyatt says teasingly as he closes Luca’s mouth with his hand.
“Would you look at that! Cap, how'd you bag hollander!” NIck says teasingly as he walks with Troy and Holmberg.
“Very funny Nick, haha” Ilya says as he accepts Zane’s bear hug.
“Congratulations Hollander” Evan says as he offers a handshake to Shane.
“Thank you, just call me Shane” Shane says as he accepts Evan’s handshake.
“Well if you insist Shane, welcome to the Family” Evan says as he pats Shanes arm.
“Congratulations Shane and good luck this guy wears used socks” Zane says as he pats SHane on the shoulders with a grin.
“Thank You, yeah if it weren’t for his Adidas Sponsorship I don’t know where he would get clean socks” Shane says as he grins back at Zane.
Zane laughed whole heartedly “man! I already like you so much more Shane”.
“Wow betrayed by my own husband and teammate” Ilya says as he places his arm on Shane's shoulders. Zane just grinned and Evan agreed with Shane.
“Ok rookies enough starstruck we gotta properly congratulate the couple!” Zane yelled out as he gathered the rookies towards them.
Congratulations were then given by everyone and a lot of handshakes and patting were involved.
“I’d say this was everyone but I’d be lying, the WAGS and Harris wanted to meet you but we made sure you were comfortable with us first.” Wyatt says to Shane.
“Thank you for being considerate, and I would love to meet them and I already met Cassie” Shane answers as he accepts the ginger ale Ilya hands him.
“Ethan and Clint dry yourselves off, the food’s ready!” Zane yells out to the two rookies as he plates the barbeque.
“Well let’s take this conversation to the table” Wyatt says as he gesture towards the picnic tangle set up by the pool.
The BBQ party was a success and Shane’s heart and stomach was full. He was thankful and proud that Ilya has found such a supportive and loving team.
Shane can see the stark difference from their teams, While the Metro’s were quiet they were also not supportive about Shane being gay. He could barely imagine how they would react if they knew who his Fiancee was.
He was partially shocked that not one of his teammates had posted on social media that “Lily” was most likely a man. Looking at the Centaurs treating each other as family makes Shane happy.
He knows Ilya will never be discriminated against our humiliated with such a loving team, some part of Shane ached at the thought of having deprived Ilya of having such a supportive team by hiding their relationship.But that was the past, they had finally jumped past that hurdle and are happy with where they are now.
“So time for the most important question! When did you two start dating?” Tanner says as he points his fork towards Shane and Ilya.
“Weren’t you like rivals your whole careers?” Charles asks as he peeks his head in between Evan and Troy.
“Let me guess, 2017? all- tars?” Troy says as he raises his canned beer,as if he were giving a toast..
“Damn! Didn’t you also date Landry in 2016-207?!” Wyatt says as he grabbed a beer from Holmberg.
Ilya had the biggest grin as he answered “well officially, yes 2017”.
“OFFICIALLY??!!! What do you mean!” Holmberg yells out that he almost spit out his beer.
“Jeez, where are your manners Nico!” Luica says as he wipes off the small amount of beer in his arms.
Shane could only smile as he watched the team start making theories before he finally answered. “Well we were casual since rookie season until 2016 and made it official in the summer of 2017”.
Evan let out a wolf whistle and Wyatt looked like he was already doing the mental math, before any comments were made Ilya just had to correct Shane.
“No Shane it was summer before rookie season”
“Oh yeah when we were like 18” Shane says, with that all hell broke loose and everyone had questions.