Sometime around May 2027, a group chat that spent last winter screaming about two fictional hockey players will gather around a coffee table, fight over the tuna melt token and start charging each other rent on scenes from “Heated Rivalry.”
Hasbro revealed Tuesday that a “Heated Rivalry” edition of Monopoly is up for pre-order on Amazon and Walmart in the U.S. and Canada, with a May 1 release date and a box rated for ages 17 and up.
If you end up at that table, you’ll be playing through Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov’s relationship in order, because Hasbro says the board follows their love story from start to finish.
The long road from enemies on the ice to a quiet week at the cottage is now measured in dice rolls, and someone you love is going to land in jail right before the good part.
Hasbro’s boldest design choice is swapping Monopoly’s little green houses for 32 plastic hotel room keys, with 12 plastic cottages taking over for the red hotels. Fans of the first season will get the joke immediately. Everyone else will spend the whole game asking why the room is giggling every time somebody builds.
Chance and Community Chest have been replaced by Texts cards with messages from “Lily” and “Jane,” the fake contact names Shane and Ilya hid behind, and Tabloids cards full of sponsorship news and gossip about players in the show’s fictional MLH league. One preview card confirms a gym is among the properties, which tracks for a cast that is mostly cardio.
The token lineup includes a Straw + Berry smoothie, the MLH Cup, a tuna melt, an extra banana and a “stupid Canadian wolf bird,” which reads like a grocery list to outsiders and a full episode recap to fans.
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The 17+ rating is doing most of the work in the headlines, though nothing Hasbro has shown goes past inside jokes and two very familiar images, the pair in Las Vegas from the first episode and the face-off from the first season’s poster. Hasbro puts the same age label on its “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and “Fourth Wing” editions, so the rating mostly tells romance fans which aisle to look in.
Hasbro’s product copy pitches the game as a great “white elephant, or Secret Santa gift,” a plan that will have to wait for the 2027 holiday party since nothing ships until May. Human resources has plenty of time to prepare. Somebody in accounting is going to unwrap a cottage, and nobody will explain why.
Less than a year after its Crave and HBO Max premiere, the show has turned into a licensing machine, with the Ottawa Senators selling Hollander and Rozanov jerseys and Funko putting the leads on shelves. Fan accounts are getting paid too, with at least one large “Heated Rivalry” fan account on X posting the Amazon pre-order link Tuesday under a “Paid partnership” label. That puts the fandom’s own feeds to work selling the board game. For Hasbro, it’s a new title in an adult Monopoly line built for readers and viewers who want game night to match their bookshelf.
Season two, drawn from Rachel Reid’s “The Long Game,” is expected next spring, and Hasbro says the board includes a nod to it, so the smartest strategy is to buy every property early and trust no one holding the wolf bird.
