There are very few people in the world, if any at all, who can relate to Luke Prokop.
The 24-year-old Edmonton native, who just wrapped a season on a farm team for his hometown Oilers, is the first openly gay hockey player under an NHL contract in history. There was no one before him—Brock McGillis, widely credited as the first openly gay professional hockey player, was never contracted in the NHL—and there has yet to be anyone after.
