"Kennedy, and the show writers, want to have it both ways: the danger of a hockey bad boy with the veneer of female empowerment. But for anyone remotely familiar with the reality of the sport, this fantasy falls apart under the weight of its own contradictions."
In October 2024, a few months before Heated Rivalry was greenlit by studio producers in Canada, Amazon Prime Video announced that it was adapting the popular hockey romance book series Off Campus.…