06-02-2020, 07:06 PMhhh81 Wrote:

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Quilha Agante Trophy – Award Given to Top Defenseman
This was an especially hard award to find a lot of information about. Without JayWhy, I wouldn’t have found much of anything. Agante’s original username was Hornsby, but quickly changed to @diamond_ace. Agante played five seasons in the SHL with Manhattan and Las Vegas (S5-S9). More of a shutdown player, he compiled 76 points, 543 hits, and 349 blocked shots in 255 games. He was named an All Star once and was a finalist for the Scott Stevens trophy twice, but never won.

Diamond_ace also was the GM for the Manhattan Rage from S6-S15, leading the Rage to the Challenge Cup Finals in S13 (where they fell in 5 games to Edmonton). While diamond_ace hasn’t made a post since 2017, they were actually online earlier this month (5/11/20). While their time on site doesn’t have the longevity or wide-impact as some of his peers, his tenure is still a solid one in site history.

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Here's your post, friends.

I was "Hornsby" after a brand of cider.



Basically I was already a fairly well established user as diamond_ace in VHL and at the time, VFL (long since defunct). I wanted to come over here a bit under the radar and not have my draft stock determined by people who knew me there. I wasn't sure how long I was going to stay here, as I'd heard good and bad at the time. It caught my interest, I stuck around, and I was fairly soon given the GM position of Manhattan (I was on Calgary Wranglers in VHL with Spangle - GMed them as well, although I'm not sure which position I had first. They definitely ran concurrently, though). Once I knew I was going to be around here for some time, I swapped over to my more recognizable username. While I was here, I was Quilha Agante, Clyde "Shadow" Arrowny, and I believe one other player that I don't remember. Agante was by far the best one, it's unfortunate I felt the need to retire him so early to fit with the team's timeline. **Side note: if any of you are in NSFL, I did the same thing there as Squamish/Bogdan Wojcik, although at a different/busier time in my life, and did not stick around as long there.**

Stuck around here for a few years, gradually went inactive just about everywhere as my life picked up. Came back to sim leagues in general a few years ago, did my usual "let's over commit to like 900 leagues and try out way more than I can handle" and ultimately that's what caused me to go inactive in NSFL, as well as briefly GRSL although that was partially also a disagreement with ownership, but GRSL died shortly after I left anyway. Right now, I'm still in VHL/EFL/SBA, the leagues with the other type of structure. I prefer that structure and have not really been able to make it stick with a league with SHL-style structure since I've come back. In VHL at the moment, I'm GM of the Prague Phantoms, as well as commissioner of the VHLM (minors). As VHLM commissioner I get an "auto 12" in EFL and SBA, otherwise who knows if I'd really have time for 3 leagues at this stage of my life. Always been a big advocate of the minors in any league I've been in, so I'm incredibly happy to discover I have an SMJHL award named for my guy from here.

LIFE STUFF:

Some of you probably actually remember me fairly well (some of you are probably also in both here and VHL and might still know me despite not being here for ages). In any case, I'm now "sim league old" (35) with a full time adult job as central admissions for a hospital group based in the Pittsburgh area (applied for another job in the same company, operations analyst, so this might change in the next few weeks - potential new job also pays significantly better than current job, not that current job is exactly lacking in that area, but I digress). I'm also engaged, set to be married in November, and I've been with her since 2015 (right in the middle of my inactive span, actually). She's a chef, culinary degree and the works - externship at a fancy country club in Maine, semester in France, you get the idea. She's a triathlete as well, and she biked Pittsburgh to DC along the passage a few years back. I'm also an ultrarunner now, I've done 7 marathons and a 50k (31 miles for us imperial unit folks) and my "peak" in that sense (Sept 2017) was a span of 73 miles in 4 days - marathon on Wed, marathon on Thu, off Fri, medical DNF 21 miles into an attempted marathon on Sat. So yeah, life has just caught up to me for the most part. Two incomes, no kids or regular commitments, I'll be getting a house for $1 in a few years (the house I currently live in, but when my mom retires she's selling it to me, paid off completely, for $1) so I've been able to live a pretty good life all things considered. We go on trips a looooot - well, during peak Covid that was reduced to local trips to hotels within my same city, but still. Unfortunately, SHL is not currently part of that life, but for a big part of it, you were, and I'm glad to have somewhat of a legacy here nonetheless with an award.

everyone and go Rage!