Shane Hollander

Shane Hollander is a fictional character from Rachel Reid's sports romance novel series Game Changers (2018–2022) and its television adaptation Heated Rivalry (2025–present). He appears in five of the six published novels, serving as a main character in Heated Rivalry (2019) and The Long Game (2022), the second and sixth installments of the series. He is also set to be the main character in the upcoming seventh installment, Unrivaled (2027). In the novels, Shane is portrayed as a Canadian professional ice hockey player and the captain of a fictional National Hockey League team, whose private life is marked by his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with his public career, including a secret relationship with his league rival, Ilya Rozanov. In 2025, the novel series was adapted for television, with Jacob Tierney serving as director, writer, and executive producer for Crave. In the adaptation, Shane is portrayed by Canadian actor Hudson Williams and is reimagined as the captain of a Montreal-based team in a fictional professional hockey league. The television version places greater emphasis on the character's mixed Asian Canadian ancestry and undiagnosed autism. Williams received critical acclaim for his performance with praise being aimed at his portrayal of autism.