Bobby Ryan?? Dude had to change his name. Colby Cave had a real hard time getting into the NHL, I would classify any players that ran the minor league circuits making peanuts for years, before hitting the league for extended periods of times, as being through some adversity. People act like anyone coming from a more well off background is immune to adversity, it's not true. If you want to only look at family income, 3rd world conditions are far more adverse than 99% of the communities in developed countries. Adversity is all relative, we point at the NBA and NFL as facing more adversity but it probably doesn't compare very well to what Brazilian football kids face in the favela's. More posts than I expected just saying - "they're white dudes, what adversity?"