‘No one can know’: Heated Rivalry’s gay love story exposes ice hockey’s culture of silence

Heated Rivalry has become a hit for Crave and HBO. abrina Lantos/APHeated Rivalry has become a hit for Crave and HBO. abrina Lantos/AP‘No one can know’: Heated Rivalry’s gay love story exposes ice hockey’s culture of silenceThe surprise hit series has reopened a familiar debate: why, in the National Hockey League, visibility is still treated as a problem rather than a possibilityAt around the midpoint of the first episode of Heated Rivalry, just after Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov – one Canadian, the other Russian, both hockey’s top prospects – have had their first tryst, Hollander sits at the side of his hotel bed and says: “So.