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Key Highlights

• “Heated Rivalry” finally took its hockey lover boys to the cottage, and everything has changed.
• In the Season 1 finale of HBO Max’s smash-hit romance, Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rosanov (Connor Storrie) settled in for two weeks at Shane’s remote cottage, and immediately made a pact.
• For the first time in their more-than-a-decade-long history, they would use their uninterrupted alone time to tell each other the truth about how they feel.
• No more burying their emotions or expressing them in a language the other can’t understand –– no matter how beautiful Ilya’s Russian revelation was in Episode 5.
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