Two rival hockey captains who have been secretly sleeping together for years, every time their teams play each other.
That’s the show. And it worked: 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) captains the Montreal Metros; Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), Russian, captains the Boston Raiders. They met at the draft, hate each other on the ice because that’s the deal, and spend a decade meeting in hotel rooms without calling it anything. The closet here isn’t an obstacle that gets solved in the finale: it’s the condition they both live in, with two careers and two countries on top of them.
The card: created, written and directed by Jacob Tierney, adapted from the 2019 novel by Rachel Reid, second book of her Game Changers saga. Canadian production, premiered on Crave on 28 November 2025 (and on HBO Max in the US), 6 episodes. Crave’s most-watched original ever. Season 2, adapting The Long Game, is announced for 2027.
A gay sports romance written for fans and shot seriously. That it turned out well shouldn’t be as surprising as it is.