I've had a few stints of activity in my days on the SHL. My first, and longest started in 2012 (I think) and lasted several years. It saw me create a player (Kyle Keenan), immediately go inactive, but return upon being drafted into junys. Keenan's career spanned over 10 seasons before retiring and recreating as Clayton Goode. That first season of recreation is fun and novel again, but it quickly loses its impact. I know I'm not alone in thinking that, and I, like many before me, went inactive after recreating after a successful 10+ season career. I returned some years later with Kyle Keenan Jr and again fell off quickly, this time due to some things rubbing me the wrong way in juniors. I suppose third time is the charm though, as I've been back with Gregory Goode since October and I'm certainly feeling a renewed interest in the league. I know this was kinda a long winded introduction before answering the prompt, but I think it is needed to set up the sheer amount of people who have helped me over my many trips through SHL-land. I know I'll forget people, and I apologize, but I do want to give some special shoutouts:

@RomanesEuntDomus for drafting some random ass inactive to the Firebirds, for sending a PM in hopes that I'd return, and for helping me learn the ropes of the league, even as I was severely behind the rest of the squad in experience. Building on to that, a thanks to the members of the S10 Prince George Firebirds for helping me stick around in my first foray into the league, even if all of them are inactive now :lol:

@JNH for convincing the Rage to take a chance on me in the draft and @bbp for being such a welcoming presence there. Between those two and guys like Heiss, Grossy, d_a, bora, nate, and ocho I was extremely happy to join such a group and get to know everyone!

@OrbitingDeath @RomanesEuntDomus along with greebsie, shutout, and everone else who joined the Rage in the S11-14 years as we built up from a laughing stock to an actual cup contender. Unfortunately we fell just short, but it was still a hell of a run.

@teztify Where do I even begin with this one? after the Rage entered a rebuild, tez traded a pretty good package to land me and very quickly offered me the co-GM spot, which I spent at least 10 seasons in. I can say without exaggeration that those were my favorite years on the site. We were playing well and had a hell of a LR to boot. Definitely met some great guys during my Blizz days @JayWhy @JayTee @JumpierPegasus @Jedi @Bayley Harry, Lunaro. The list goes on and on, I'm gonna stop there because I guess I'd rather miss out on a few people than just one, but I can't stress enough how great those nights of plug,dj, epic mafia, and just sitting around shooting the shit were.

Which leads us to the present huge thanks to @Gwdjohnson and @Wearingabear for drafting me to Anchorage. So far this is my most successful player to date and they are no small part of that. To add on to that EVERYONE in the Armada LR has been amazing, I couldn't have asked for a better landing place. I'm not gonna tag everyone, because that'll end up being well over 20 tags, but if any of you see this, thank you so much for just being who you are. I know my activity has fallen down a bit (between work, moving, and homeowner stuff now, I'm a lot busier than I was 6 months ago) but still know that I savor every time I'm able to hop in, no matter how quickly.

Finally a huge thanks to @Thatguy91 and @AgentSmith630 for drafting me 2nd overall in the SHL draft. It meant a lot to go so early (this was my only time in 4 players to go in the 1st round of the SHL draft) and even though, as I mentioned above, life has been getting pretty damn busy for me, I do enjoy jumping in discord when I can, and I plan on continuing to working hard on building Goode to be the best player he can be so your faith in me was rewarded!