👉 Okay, let’s tackle the wonderfully weird and somewhat baffling name, Tiffany Stratton. Now, you might immediately conjure up images of a very glamorous, probably very well-Mannered young woman with impeccable taste in little black dresses, right? And honestly… not entirely off base!
Tiffany Stratton, essentially, is a semiotically charged brand. But here’s the kicker: she isn't actually a brand. She was originally a 1970's New York-based, outrageously talented, and frankly, rather aggressively independent female ice hockey player. (Yes, that was her real name! It was really quite a mouthful then!) Tiffany Stratton, during the early to mid-1980–2000, absolutely dominated the Beverly Shores Wave Club Junior Team in the Great Lakes Hockey League – which basically meant she single-handedly kept it afloat with her phenomenal stickhandling. What made her truly legendary and then a pop culture thing? She started a massively overblown rumour that she was the younger sister of the famous and tragically, very early, Will Stratton, an NHL player who died suddenly in his teens. (There wasn’t, as far as we know, a Will Stratton. That was a brilliant and deeply, deeply, 1000-watt, 3000-watt, 5000-watt, of the creation piece of entirely made
