New York Rangers
You know the Rangers fan who already has the jersey. You know the Rangers fan who already has the flag. You know the Rangers fan who already knows each and every player on this year’s roster by number. Shopping for that person can be exceedingly difficult. Or, if you’re approaching it from the right angle, remarkably easy.
Easy because you know without a doubt what they care about. Difficult because every glaringly obvious thing they could possibly want is probably already taken care of and you are not motivated to solve that problem with a generic MSG snow globe.
That’s the challenge we wanted to tackle when putting this guide together. We scoured search terms and ideas for gifts that would land with the diehard, not the kind of junk that peppers every shelf in the SportsShop but rather the items an actual fan would buy for themselves and feel really good about. We’re talking about diehard Rangers fans here. Fans that stayed up for road games on the west coast. Fans that can recall every coach since the Rangers’ last great run in the nineties. Fans that remember 1994 like it was last month. Those fans deserve better than a cheap keychain.
We had one criteria for everything we considered. Would an actual Rangers fan open this gift and feel excited or would they grin and shove it in a drawer. We don’t want the drawer option so we eliminated anything that felt like a licensed checkbox and only kept gifts that felt personalized, thoughtful, and absolutely worth purchasing.
Some of these picks work great as birthday presents. Some are better suited for Christmas morning or maybe even the presents you dish out during a playoff run when the mood is already electric and you just want to amplify it. We included a few options that cater to the fan still building their library, and a few that are made for the person who says they have everything.
The Rangers have one of the most loyal fanbases in hockey and we took as much pride in putting this list together as they would in hanging their jersey in their closet. If there’s a Rangers’ fanatic in your life, chances are we have something for them here.