ESPN.A defenseman from Alberta, Canada, Prokop was selected by the Predators in the third round of the 2020 NHL draft. He signed a three-year contract with the team in December.He played with the Calgary Hitmen last season.
It was when that season was over that he decided to come out, Prokop told ESPN.“I was lying in bed one night, had just deleted a dating app for the fourth or fifth time, and I was extremely frustrated because I couldn’t be my true authentic self,” Prokop said. “In that moment I said, ‘Enough is enough.
I’m accepting who I am. I want to live the way I want to, and I want to accept myself as a gay man.’”Prokop said his team has been supportive, especially assistant general manager Brian Poile. “He, in that moment, showed.