Before the Games are done, engaged couple Anna Kjellbin and Ronja Savolainen could find themselves in a icy showdown.
Kjellbin of Sweden and Savolainen of Finland play for rival teams, with both heading toward a possible face-off in an elimination round of the Olympic women’s hockey tournanment at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Olympic fans and viewers are calling the matchup real-life scene out of Heated Rivalry. Based on the book series Game Changers, by Rachel Reid, Canada's Crave production was released on the U.S.'s HBO Max back in December, with the six-episode slate receiving a tone of farfare in the States.
Following the forbidden romance between professional hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the series even had fans baking their feelings into iced hockey-themed layer cakes once it finaled.
Season two has been already inked, and is set to adapt Rachel Reid's The Long Game, focusing on the next chapter of Shane and Ilya's relationship. It's release will likely be early to mid-2027.
According to Them magazine, the Professional Women’s Hockey League has 30 openly queer players, including Kjellbin and Savolainen, who first met while playing together in the Swedish Women’s Hockey League. In 2024, they announced their engagement after five years of dating.
“I’m usually the one who goes home as a winner,” Savolainen said in a 2024 interview with Ottawa Citizen. “I don’t care who’s in front of me … if it’s going to be her, I’m going to hit her … When you play, you just play. You don’t really think about who’s there. You’re friends after. On the ice, she’s my enemy. That’s how it goes.”
The couple added that though they love to play on the same PWHL team, they are “super lucky that we are so close to each other.”
View this post on InstagramAs for an update on the ice, Sweden is set to meet the U.S. in the semifinals Monday, Feb. 16, with Finalnd losing to Canada last Thursday, landing them fourth in Group A. They “will meet fifth-placed Switzerland in the last eight” today, per the offical Olympics website.
Go teams. Love to see it.
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