The Puck Bunny Phenomena: Women with Low Self-Esteem

“Buy a girl a drink?” I heard from my stool at the bar. I watched the heavily painted brunette wink, then brush her thinly veiled cleavage against the CHL’s player of the week. She wears a uniform of sorts consisting of a tank top, barely there skirt, and f*ck me pumps. Her name is Tiffany. Part of my job requirements as an Ice Girl is to hang out at the post game party spot interacting with fans. Tiffany has become a regular, and tonight, is dying to tell me about her latest rendezvous. She pulls up the stool next to mine, then on a wave of boozy breath, spills her most recent “Puck Bunny” experience:

“…So I was invited over to one of the guy’s apartments, but I didn’t want to go by myself, so I asked one of my girlfriends to come with me. We got there and it was so f*cking weird. They were all sitting around in a big circle, just like staring at each other. It was so boring, so I just decided to start drinking like crazy. There was this one guy that kept staring at me and I mean, I guess he was kind of cute, so I started talking to him. Next thing I know, I’m hooking up with him. I knew he was one of the vets on the team, so I was so stoked about that. My friend ended up with another one of the guys in a different room and after me and my guy were done, I hooked up with one of the rookies and he couldn’t even f*cking get it up! I honestly dislike rookies. They don’t know what they’re doing.”

Appalled at what she had just confessed. I couldn’t help but wonder what made her attracted to the guys on the team. Yes, they may be built and some are admittedly attractive, but that’s all they have going for them.

Down the bar sat Natalie, a total blonde bombshell. As she noticed me eavesdropping on her conversation with her girlfri...

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... chasing them, instead of the other way around. No man is worth losing your self-respect—not even a pro hockey player, however tempting his “sick flow” may be.

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