Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

❝ you're pathetic. ❞ ❝ you've been hooking up with every girl who looks your way to get over me. that's pathetic. ❞ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 three years after their break up and never fully getting over each other, 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢 and 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐡𝐮𝐞 meet again. macklin celebrini x fem oc social media x real life lowercase intended started: march 3rd 2026 completed:

Will Smith is a hockey player at Boston College. He moves in with a billet family the Larsons and meets their 19-year-old daughter name Sadie. Will and Sadie don't want to put a label on their relationship but they both can agree whatever they are it is not CASUAL. Smut Warning Tag Rankings #2 in Celebrini #10 in HockeyRomance #35 in NHL

They were focused on their futures-not falling for each other. Gabi Johnson has one rule: don't get attached. She's a psychology major with a passion for music, a sharp tongue, and a past she's worked hard to outrun. Love? Not part of the plan. Especially not with Will Smith-the cocky, charming NHL rookie who somehow gets under her skin in every possible way. Will lives for the rush of the game and the next big win. He doesn't have time for distractions, including Gabi, the stubborn girl who challenges him at every turn and constantly bickers with him at every chance she gets. What starts as harmless bickering slowly turns into something harder to ignore. They're both chasing dreams, both terrified of slowing down but maybe some things are worth pausing for and when Gabi's past begins to catch up, she'll have to decide whether to keep running... Or let someone run beside her. Started: April 14, 2025 Status: on break ~ Behind the Glass Series, book #2 ~ Disclaimer: it is not needed to read the books in order but recommended for the best experience!

"he's good to her, and she wants it more than everything in-between" - inbetween by gracie abrams ⤻ in which emery zegras finds herself caught liking and favoriting an edit of a certain nhl rookie ⤿ how will the media handle this? how will he react? is emery a meme? a so called puck bunny? how will trevor and his friends feel about emery and the enemy? ⤿ strangers to lovers, rivals? to lovers, celebrity romance

paige bedard learned early that loving something meant sacrificing for it. the early mornings, missed birthdays, and the quiet pressure of carrying a last name hockey already knew. but, there was always one place she didn't have to be paige bedard: connor bedard's little sister, captain of the wisconsin badgers, alternate captain for Team Canada, and star forward of the vancouver goldeneyes. it was the place she could just be paige and that place was wherever macklin celebrini was. they met at thirteen, two north vancouver kids with dreams too big for their bodies. he stayed on the ice after everyone left. she stayed with him. driveways became rinks, summer nights became promises, and somewhere between shared playlists, lake days, and silent understanding, paige fell in love with him. she just never told him. he was macklin, her best friend. her almost. because almost was safer than losing him completely. then, came the leaving- he went to boston to chase the NHL. she went to wisconsin, where she became captain and one of the most dominant players in college hockey before returning home as the face of the goldeneyes. phone calls became texts and texts became nothing. years passed, but feelings didn't. now, at nineteen, paige stands at center ice in milan with a silver medal around her neck and an "A" over her heart. a loss she can't escape. hockey, for the first time, doesn't feel like enough. until she sees him... across a city thousands of miles from where they began, macklin stands there and suddenly she's thirteen again. macklin was never just her first love, he was her unfinished one and some people, no matter how far you skate or how much time passes... you always find your way back to them.

✦✦✦ zara warsofsky, daughter of Ryan Warsofsky, center, fearless, raised inside the San Jose Sharks rink. her mother, 90s figure skater, left balance and discipline in her blood. she plays fast, thinks faster, talks back, never apologizes. macklin celebrini, rookie, under pressure, trying to earn ice time. he doesn't need distractions, but she's impossible to ignore. practice, faceoffs, collisions. sticks clash, shoulders brush, eye contact held too long. her father watches, says nothing. no dating, no rumors, no mistakes. just hockey, just tension, just them. #slowburn #hockeyromance #coachsdaughter #rookie #teenromance #originalcharacter #nhl #sportsdrama ✦✦✦

Nineteen-year-old Skyler is stepping onto the world's biggest stage: her first Olympics in Livigno Snow Park, competing in halfpipe and big air snowboarding. Talented, determined, and fiercely independent, she's accustomed to carrying pressure alone-but the Olympics are different. Between media scrutiny, high expectations, and the relentless mountain slopes, Skyler struggles to find her footing. Skyler notices a quiet figure in the crowd of Team Canada hockey players: Macklin Celebrini, also nineteen, shy, reserved, and facing his own first Olympic debut. Skyler can't help but notice the similarity in the weight they both carry-expectations, pressure, and the desire to prove themselves.

⋆˚࿔ Anaheim Ducks forward Virginia Green has a stress-free hockey season ahead of her. That is-until her best friend Andrea starts catching feelings for San Jose Sharks forward Will Smith, and is forced to be in her known rival Macklin Celebrini's prescense. Despite her best efforts not to be, she's thrown. ˚⟡˖ ࣪ #2 In #Smith!

adrianna rossi is a skilled ohl defencewoman, joining the erie otters in the 2023 season. along side her, matthew schaefer is one of the top ohl defencemen in the league. you would expect them to be good friends, right? wrong. the first time adrianna met him, something about his cockiness, confidence, and class pissed her off. but, a freak accident changed their relationship. read to find out!