In recent months, there has never been more interest in ice hockey, and it’s not because of Team USA’s double win at the Paris Olympics or the Stanley Cup finals. After HBO Max and Crave released the mega-popular Heated Rivalry last year, Prime Video premiered Off Campus on the 2026 TV schedule. Now it seems like Netflix is getting in on its own book-to-screen adaptation with a steamy show about ice athletes, and Heated Rivalry better watch out.
According to Variety, the streaming giant has greenlit a series adaptation of the Hannah Grace novel Icebreaker, Netflix’s executive Jinny Howe revealed. The book, which is the first of three novels in the Maple Hills series, has gone viral on BookTok due to its very NSFW nature. Since being published in 2022 with a wide release in 2023, Icebreaker has sold close to 5 million copies worldwide and spent 70 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, so it was only a matter of time before it was adapted. The logline for the show reads:
