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Which tropes should your next Sports (Hockey) romance lean into?

Reader-demand mentions counted this month across 121 total mentions in Sports (Hockey). As of 2026-10-01.

Clean & Wholesome Contemporary Billionaire Single Parent Small Town Sports (Hockey)Workplace Dark Romance Historical (Regency)Historical (Scottish)LGBTQ · MM LGBTQ · Sapphic Paranormal Romantasy Rom-Com Sci-Fi Romance Romantic Suspense Western

✅ Write into these — rising, not yet crowded

Hurt ComfortReverse HaremSecond ChanceForced ProximityGrumpy Sunshine

⚠️ Hot but crowded — enter only with a twist

Sports Romance

🔵 Cooling off — think twice

College Romance

Top 5 trending in Sports (Hockey) this month

▲ Found Family (8 mentions, 6.6% share)
Enemies To Lovers (7 mentions, 5.8% share)
▲ Forced Proximity (6 mentions, 5% share)
Slow Burn (6 mentions, 5% share)
Sports Romance (5 mentions, 4.1% share)

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Why “rising” beats “popular”

Most “trending tropes” lists tell you what's popular — which is often the same as telling you what's already saturated. This checker separates the tropes gaining momentum in Sports (Hockey) (where there's still room) from the ones that are hot-but-crowded and the ones quietly cooling off. This is a thin slice of what a full Tropesmith Map does for your specific book.