The hottest TV show of the moment is a NSFW gay Canadian series about two male hockey rivals hooking up on the low. Heated Rivalry is like Challengers on ice, but with ten times more churro action and the viewer is Zendaya. It makes Heartstopper seem like Teletubbies . And it is already setting the hockey world ablaze. Written by director Jacob Tierney for the Canadian streaming service Crave, the first two episodes premiered on HBO Max last Friday, introducing American audiences to the epic situationship between Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams), shy Canadian captain of the Montreal Metros, and his brooding Russian counterpart, Ilya Romanov (Connor Storie) of the Boston Raiders. The story begins in 2008, before mainstream acceptance of queer relationships, and speeds through the

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