Shane Hollander, the fictional Canadian hockey player in “Heated Rivalry,” will not be competing at this year’s Milan Cortina Games. Watch NBC6 free wherever you are WATCH HERE WATCH HERE“There’s a lot of Shane Hollander jokes going around,” Hollander told NBC News on Thursday. His fianceé, Olympic ski jumper Paige Jones, has even made several TikToks about having a “Shane Hollander at home.”“I think it’s hilarious,” Hollander said about the attention. The series, based on Rachel Reid’s romance novels, follows hockey phenom Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams) and his secret, decade-long romance with his rival, Russian-born Ilya Rozanov (played by Connor Storrie). “Luge always gets the gay jokes at the Olympics because it’s two guys in speed suits lying on top of each other.