Back in 2000, a pair of fifth-year Michigan University athletes accepted that they had no chance of going professional in their chosen sports. Being blessed with relatively good brains that neither had scrambled through endless football scrimmages, the pair decided to use their contacts and experience to stick around in sports and went into business as agents. 40-plus years later, Gilmore and Gilbert - known to everybody in Detroit sports as Double G - are a nationwide success, representing a stable that includes some of the most glittering talent North American sport has to offer. Despite being extremely big fish, the founders keep their hands in the Motor City and make a point of snapping up anybody who looks like they might have even the slightest smidgen of talent plying their trade in Michigan, including Simo.

Obviously, being a junior hockey player, Simo doesn't quite warrant the attention of either of the Gils, or even any of their higher-level staff. The Falcons often end up with junior associates, people cutting their teeth in the business or who the higher-ups think need extra seasoning, and when Simo has difficulties his point of contact is Max Gold, a man sadly born 60 years too late to truly fit in with the money-obsessed and cocaine-soaked 1980s. It's a good relationship, a cordial relationship, a friendly relationship...in spite of the Minnesota debacle of 2041. But you'll find out about that soon...