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.”

Philadelphia Flyers

There’s a type of Flyers fan that requires no persuasion. They grew up on a steady diet of Broad Street Hockey. They remember where they were for every heartbreak and victory. Orange and black isn’t just a colour scheme, it’s a lifestyle. Shopping for that Flyaher should be easy. Too often, it’s not. Because most available merchandise is either cheap tourist trap garbage or the same damn jersey you already own four sizes too big. We wanted something better than that. Not because buying for Flyers fans is hard. It’s not. It’s because they deserve better than another jersey nobody…

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Pittsburgh Penguins

Buying a Penguins fan something isn’t as easy as picking up the first jersey topped thing with a logo on it. Anyone who has ever cared about a team enough to wear half the contents of their merchandise store knows the difference between fandom apparel that feels sentimental and fandom apparel that was simply manufactured. We know this because we’ve been gifted both plenty of times. Penguins fans aren’t typical sports fans. They’ve endured the highs of Lemieux, Crosby, back to back championships and the crushing lows that come with being a sports fan somewhere that’s actually good at sports.…

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San Jose Sharks

Buying a truly great gift for a Sharks fan is more difficult than you’d think. All of the obvious gear, the kind you’ll find plastered all over sports stores everywhere, is stuff people happily nod and smile at before filing away in a drawer to never speak of again. A badge of sports team affiliation on otherwise meaningless junk is not a present. We’ve never liked that philosophy and we’re not gonna start now. We wanted stuff that the diehard San Jose Sharks fan would genuinely be happy to own, display, drink or wear without feeling like some guy who…

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Seattle Kraken

Buying a gift for the Kraken fan in your life is either about as simple as it gets or it’s the worst. If you know them well enough and pick the right thing they’ll think you’ve been listening. Choose incorrectly though and it’s just more impersonal hockey merch that winds up filed next to things from last Christmas (or Christmas before that). We’ve seen enough of column A to appreciate column B, and this guide was curated because we wanted something better to refer to. --- The Kraken are still a relatively new team and this does factor into gift…

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St. Louis Blues

Gift shopping for a Blues fan isn’t as difficult as you might think. Once you stop focusing on what most generic hockey gifts are you’ll realize it. Paint by numbers logo printed on a mug. Ill fitting jerseys nobody actually wants. Stuff that boasts about how much of a fan you are on the surface without having any substance behind it. Enough about what isn’t going into our idea gifts for Blues fans, let’s talk about what is. Growing up in St. Louis you learn real quick what it means to be a sports fan. For reasons we’ll never truly…

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Trying to find a gift for a Tampa Bay Lightning fan should be simple. In practice, it’s anything but. The official merchandise store is stocked full of jerseys in every size and nothing else that feels remotely personalised, while the general sites offer endless variations on licensed mugs and keychains until you bang your head against the keyboard in frustration. We’ve been down that road. We did all that research. We’ve got helmets mixed in with beach towels as we type this. We know it sucks. So we’ve ignored 99% of the options available and curated items from the remaining…

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Toronto Maple Leafs

For as long as most of us can remember our families wore their allegiances on their sleeves. It’s a specific type of blind loyalty that is passed down through the generations like an old couch. You don’t pick it. You inherit it. And for many Canadians that inheritance comes with white and blue stripes. Leafs fans are passionate. They have allowed the team to break their hearts time and time again and they show up to see them do it all over again the next season. Buying for a Leafs fan isn’t difficult if you know what you’re really buying…

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Utah Hockey Club

Something different is building here in Utah. If your Hockey fanatic has caught it already then you know there is no halfway with this team. The Utah Hockey Club came into town screaming with an energy that most expansion teams spend 10 years trying to build. These fans aren’t wearing their allegiance because a grandfather did or because of bedroom wall poster. They picked it. They picked it recently and they picked it because they wanted to which if anything makes finding that perfect gift more exciting because nothing here is taken for granted. Built from hours of scouring the…

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Vancouver Canucks

It’s easy to say you want to find something for the Canucks fan in your life. It’s much harder to actually look. Brands’ official merchandise stores are miles long and headache inducing and it’s literally just jerseys in different sizes. Generic gift guides for sports fans are even worse. So we did what we do with everything on this site, we asked ourselves the only question that really matters: would we actually give this to someone we cared about? We know Canucks fans. We know that they don’t just bandwagon every other year, they stick around through heartbreak after heartbreak…

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Vegas Golden Knights

There's something uniquely satisfying about being a Vegas Golden Knights fan. They're one of the few professional sports teams that didn't exist ten years ago and yet somehow the fandom around this franchise is already legendary. Competitive. Loyal. One hundred percent Golden Knights. The gold. The grey. The knight in armour before puck drop. The deafening atmosphere inside T Mobile Arena that doesn't sound like it's being pumped in from overhead speakers. If you have a friend who bleeds gold and grey, finding them something that truly matches that passion means more than most people would understand. This. We've built…

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Washington Capitals

If you know your Capitals fan really well, finding them something is easy. If you don’t, it’s near impossible. Overshoot and you’re buying random logo-ed mugs nobody would put on display. Miss by half and you’re suddenly discussing jersey variants you don’t understand. We get it, and that’s why we curated this collection the way we did. We only included things that mean something to someone who bleeds red and blue. Not because it was the top search result, not because it had the fastest shipping label we could print, but because we asked ourselves: would a Capitals fan geek…

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Winnipeg Jets

There are people out there who don’t just watch the Jets. They bleed blue and white. They follow the lines, they debate goaltending decisions and they know Jets history, in Atlanta and in Winnipeg. They care about everything. Buying them anything is tough. Generic NHL gear is available on every website out there and most of it feels like it was made by a committee with no particular fan in mind. We wanted to do better than that. We built this collection around one simple question. Would we buy this for a Jets fan who actually bleeds blue and white?…

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