NHL

Hockey fans don’t often jump between teams. We’re loyal, through good times and bad. When you support the NHL it doesn’t just become a hobby, it becomes a part of who you are. How you speak. Where you spend your Sundays. Just how much hatred one missed shot can stir up. If you’re buying for that kind of person you’re either going to have it easy or find yourself wishing you did a little more research. When we noticed we kept seeing the same problem coming up again and again we decided to do something about it. Parents and friends grabbing something generic from a store shelf or big box retailer without spending two seconds considering who they’re buying for. Presents that look like they don’t understand why they’re even there. Apparel that may as well be for “Sports Team.” Folks that care about the NHL deserve better than that. We spent time curating each product in this collection. Skipping past weak brands who slap a team logo on a magnet and calling it a day. We want gear that you’d want to wear, hang on the wall, or use. Actually enjoyable gifts that won’t get politely thanked and placed in a drawer. And it goes further than the diehard who has worshipped at the altar of their favorite hockey team since they were old enough to hold a stick. There are tons of people who fell in love with the sport recently. Who maybe know the team roster better than the ancestors they cheer for. Familes that don’t know hockey, but the wife or husband does and you want lowkey-awesome gifts to show them you care. What matters is that THEY care. They’re fans, and good gifts should honor that. That’s why we’ve put together gifts for every type of fan. Whether they want to display their pride using our Hockey Apologists Coffee Mug or show off their team logo using our NHL Tape Measures there’s something here for everyone. Some gifts in this collection you might expect. But we like to think we’ve got some surprises too. You know the ones. Special enough that when a fan opens it up they’ll say “Oh! Where’d you find that?” And we can say “ WE MADE IT HERE.”

Anaheim Ducks

Getting a gift for a Ducks fan should be easy when you know what you’re looking for. The issue is, most people don’t. Instead they settle on whatever jersey hangs semi-dejectedly off the rack at Fred Meyer because it has some big ol’ Duck on it. We didn’t want to settle. We searched high and low for pieces that a proud Anaheim fan would proudly display in their home, wear around town, or bring to a game. Being a Ducks fan is a specific thing. It’s not just loving hockey or casually enjoying NHL games. Ducks fans have basked in…

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Boston Bruins

There is a type of Bruins fan that you don’t need to win over. You already know what they’re going to get you. They grew up watching Orr and Esposito skate circles around everyone else, or maybe they came to it years later through Bergeron and Chara, but either way you know the black and gold runs deep in their veins and The Garden is their cathedral and that, my friend, is not up for discussion. Purchasing a present for this person should be simple. In reality it’s one of the most challenging endeavors there is because the official merchandise…

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Buffalo Sabres

Being a Sabres fan isn’t something you do half heartedly. You watch every game, every loss hurts in your sternum and you’ll come back next season because thats what it means to bleed blue and gold. The people in your life that feel that way about Buffalo don’t want some watered down version of that support. They aren’t looking for something that just looks hockey adjacent. They want something that means something to them; that speaks to the team, the city and the identity you’ve built around watching Buffalo play since you first stepped foot into KeyBank Center or listened…

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Calgary Flames

Gift shopping for a Flames fan is simple. Once you stop looking at everything you start looking at stuff you know a Flames fan will actually want, it becomes easy. There is a lot of Calgary merchandise available. Oodles and oodles of it. But most of it is boring. Same jersey. Same cap. Same logo thrown on something no one should own. We set out to find the other stuff. The goodies. The gifts that would resonate with a real Flames fan. You know the type. The ones who bleed red and yellow and probably had the Saddledome permanently burnt…

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Carolina Hurricanes

It sounds easy. Buy a gift for a Canes fan. Put some jersey on Black Friday. Until you’re in the aisle cringing over whether they already own that player’s jersey, second guessing if that mug is actually made of cardboard, or wondering if the thing your cousin insisted you look at is even any good besides having the right logo on it. Been there, built thatAmazon Storefront. Hurricanes fans are special like that too. They’ve watched this team come into their own the last few years. They remember when “nobody thought hockey could work in Raleigh.” They aren’t going to…

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Chicago Blackhawks

Throwing together a gift list for Blackhawks fans is easy until you actually try to do it. There’s a lot of Blackhawks merch out there. Most of it will make it into that dead spot in the closet or get dusted off for one game-watching party before quietly resigning itself to the back of the drawer. That’s not the kind of list we wanted to put together. We wanted the kind of stuff a true fan would genuinely be excited to receive as a gift. Not another iteration of a Blackhawks logo tee. Not a random mug that could belong…

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Colorado Avalanche

Buying something for an Avalanche fan should be simple. Until you find yourself staring blankly at a shelf of generic gear contemplating if this human already owns three of each item in your immediate vicinity. The NHL is overflowing with licensed products. A lot of it is good enough. And by good enough, we mean fine. Fine isn’t the same as great, and it’s certainly not what someone wants. Hell, it’s barely what you want. We compiled this assortment of gifts specifically for the die-hard Avalanche fans. You know the ones. The fans who stuck by them through the rebuild;…

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Columbus Blue Jackets

Picking a gift for a Blue Jackets fan should be easy. Right? Think again. Licensed gear at your typical sports shop is depressingly universal. The same logo printed on the same mug beside the same stupid beanie. It doesn't really tell the person you're shopping for that you actually listened when they talked about their team. We didn't want to gift something like that. When you're a Blue Jackets fan, you're in it for the long haul. The fandom here has weathered some outright atrocious seasons full of brick. These fans can tell the difference between a fair weather purchase…

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Dallas Stars

Gift shopping for a Dallas Stars fan should feel easy. Until you’re at the store stocking up on logo mugs and officially licensed jerseys wondering if you’re actually giving them something meaningful or just going for the convenient option. We’ve stood in that exact spot too many times. A mascot bobblehead is not a gift. It’s a Band-Aid. And sure, they might love it at the time but will that item still be here when May rolls around? We went out and found gear for the die-hard fan. Jerseys you’ll actually want to wear. Stuff that honors the history and…

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Detroit Red Wings

There are hockey fans and there are Red Wings fans, and if you know anything about one then you already know the difference between them. Fans who grew up watching Yzerman kill penalties in overtime, who remember the back to back Cups in the late nineties like it was last week, who still feel a kind of pride about a franchise that makes it to the playoffs more years in a row than most teams have in their history. Shopping for someone like that requires care. You can’t just snag the first Hockey Name t-shirt you see and figure you’re…

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Edmonton Oilers

There’s a segment of Oilers fan who does not need to be taught. They know the dynasty years better than you do, they have feelings about this year’s roster that they will happily inflict whether you’re asking for opinions or not, and they treat game night with reverence most people only save for a visit to the dentist. Buying for that person isn’t difficult when you know what you’re doing. Buying for them when you yourself do not follow hockey? That’s a trick in itself. That’s what this guide is for. Put together by hardcore fans for hardcore fans, we…

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Florida Panthers

For the die hard. There is a select group of fans who have been waiting forever for this. They’ve survived the expansion years, teased with potential only to fall short, seasons where excitement showed up in October and packed up again before Thanksgiving. Once this team started winning like it has been these past few years, it became about more than just hockey. It became personal for the fans who had weathered the storm and stayed faithful. Finding a gift for that fan isn’t difficult if you know what you’re looking for. What you’re looking for isn’t merchandise. What you’re…

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Los Angeles Kings

Kings fans are a certain type of loyal. It’s not fair weather. It weathered the lean years and the rebuilds and painful losses and came out the other side with two Stanley Cup banners hanging from the rafters of Crypto. com Arena and a fanbase that never had to be convinced once. Finding something for that person isn’t actually difficult when you know where to look. The problem is most gift guides aren’t written by people who know where to look. That’s why we put this collection together. Kings fans deserve better than whatever black and silver shirt or mug…

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Minnesota Wild

All sports fans need convincing of something. They need to be shown jerseys. They need to see rosters. But some fans don’t need convincing. They already bought the jersey. That's not why they'll open your gift, however. You need to show them you were paying attention. Go beyond the jersey. Enter this gift guide. The Minnesota Wild have fans that know team history like it’s family lore. Hell, Minnesota has kids growing up knowing the history of their teams because they learn about them before they can even step foot in a real rink. They learn by playing on frozen…

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Montreal Canadiens

There’s sports fans, and there’s Habs fans. We feel it’s important to differentiate between the two. Being a Montreal Canadiens supporter isn’t some casual pact you enter into. It’s scribbled onto legal pads at kitchen tables, it’s passed down through family lines woven into generational Stanley Cup lore and it’s tattooed on your heart and soul through every miserable playoff loss and glorious comeback win. When you’re shopping for a gift for a person who bleeds bleu, blanc et rouge you want to get it right. And when you get it wrong, they notice. We compiled this list because we…

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Nashville Predators

Buying for the Predator fan in your life is different than buying for any other team's fan. Nashville hockey culture has a certain charm to it, loud and unabashedly proud, uniquely Predators. And the fans who cherish this team feel just as unique. They don't just cheer for the Preds, they live and breath hockey. So finding that perfect gift that actually fits that mentality rather than just putting a logo on a dad joke of a gift takes more time than most people are willing to invest. Which is why we built you this gift guide. We curated everything…

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New Jersey Devils

Devils fandom is a certain type of fandom. It endured the drought, it endured people asking you if you were switching to the New York teams. It came out the other side begrudging, battle-hardened, and more committed than ever. That kind of fandom isn’t served by some hastily bought jersey from the sports shop. We built this collection with you in mind. The Devils fan who has watched clips of Martin Brodeur making saves that defy physics their whole life. The fan who grew up with the three Cups and unconsciously measures every season against them. The fan that has…

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New York Islanders

Some sports fans inherit their loyalty as a family tradition. You could practically replace the word “surname” with Islanders fan. You’ve suffered through the expansion years, you’ve sat through all the whole arena drama and you’ve gotten weirdly comforted by knowing that you’re a part of something that’s stubborn, and proud, and undeniably Long Island. Those people are who we kept in mind when we curated this collection. Not the casual fan. The die-hards. Getting Islanders fan gifts is easy. Finding ones that feel like they were made for a true Islander fan, that’s the challenge. The person who sat…

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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…

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Ottawa Senators

We know what it’s like to be a Senators fan. You’ve sat through rebuild after rebuild, watched your team perform horribly in the standings year after year, and came back for more because that’s just what fans do. Everyone in your life that bleeds red and black don’t need you to convince them why they love this team. They already know why. But what they do need is for you to show them that you understand why they love this team. And that’s where most gift buying goes wrong. Gifts that don’t scream “Senators” are boring and easy to find.…

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