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Heated Rivalry from the Queer Lens: A Collaboration at the Cottage, Part One
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- Jan 19, 2026
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Summary
Heated Rivalry is based on author Rachel Reid’s "Game Changers" novel series. The plot primarily follows elite professional hockey players, and competitive rivals, Canadian Shane Hollander and Russian Ilya Rozanov, as they develop feelings for each other, complicating their careers. Ice Is Slippery Podcast joins us for a two-part collaboration episodes between two hockey podcasts lead by queer hockey fans. Check out part one here on the Over The Glass Hockey Podcast and part two on Ice Is Slippery Podcast. This podcast episode covers our podcast platforms focuses, how we got into Heated Rivalry, commentary on the current global phenomena, hockey romance as an entry point, fanfiction to queer the narrative, the intersectionality of Asian representation in real life hockey vs fiction, and Hudson Williams' modeling debut in Dsquared's Milan Fashion Week.