Portland Is Thirsty for 'Heated Rivalry'
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Portland Is Thirsty for 'Heated Rivalry'
"A school counselor and teacher, respectively, they decline to give last names and are dressed in matching red and brown flannel (a reference). Allison has made stickers ("I Might Knock," a blue sock with bananas on it, a can of Canada Dry). "Show her the loon you embroidered!" says Kate, and Allison produces for me a gray sweatshirt on which she has sewn a very elegant loon."
"The Canadian series, which is both fantastically hot and achingly tender, follows a yearslong romance between two closeted pro hockey stars: Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams), a mild-mannered, half-Asian Canadian who plays for Montreal, and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), a brash, bad-boy Russian who plays for Boston. Written and directed by Jacob Tierney, it's based on a set of romance novels by Rachel Reid and was produced by a Canadian network called Crave."
It's 6:30pm at the Nest, a bar on SE Belmont, and trivia night is filled with 70 people and 20 teams. Fans wear matching flannel, stickers, and embroidered sweatshirts; team names reference Heated Rivalry. Heated Rivalry is a Canadian series following a yearslong romance between two closeted pro hockey stars: Shane Hollander, a Montreal player, and Ilya Rozanov, a brash Russian from Boston. Written and directed by Jacob Tierney, based on Rachel Reid's romance novels, the series was produced by Crave and licensed by HBO Max shortly before its late-November debut with little promotion. It has become HBO Max's most-watched acquired live-action show.
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