NHL

Hockey fans care. A lot. We’re not saying that as a slight: being a fan of the NHL is a commitment. It’s not based around a team’s winning percentage or your calendar. When you love hockey it becomes part of how you speak, where you spend your Sunday evenings, and how you track an elastic band’s precise flight path when it gets deflected by your favourite player. If you know a person like this buying for them is easy. If you don’t? Well, it can be pretty damn difficult. At Cult we’ve seen that particular issue play out many times. Loved ones see that someone else has found something NHL related and just gone for it. We’ve seen too many plates, toilet brushes and socks that just look like they wandered into a sports store and someone snapped whatever they had in stock. It’s generic, it’s soulless and it misses the mark on what makes someone special as a fan. That’s why we built this collection. We talked to fans. We researched forums and Wikipedia pages and NHL blogs. We gathered info and compiled a serious list of teams that we had to turn into packages anyone would love receiving. It took time and energy. Some teams gave us a clear path to amazing gifts. Others … well, let’s just say we drove a lot of delivery drivers around the country miserable as hell. The great thing about hockey is that there’s such a broad mix of fans. We have folks who grew up watching games at ungodly hours local team dreaming of one day making the NHL. We have newer fans who came to the sport during a huge playoff run and are slowly becoming timeworn veterans. We have people who actually play hockey and people who would tear their arm off to play but love the sport just as fervently from their couch. Whoever they are and wherever they’re from they have one thing in common. They care about the game and they can taste the difference when someone buys them something that doesn’t. We have spent a lot of time ensuring these gifts scream ‘I know and I care.’ FromSTACKED JerseysLayer after layer of carefully engineered Compressport fabric moulds to your exact shape. They're built to last. We’ve handpicked gifts that require you to actually know a person’s team. Things that require you to put some effort in. Some of these choices are obvious winners. Some of them are niche as hell and we’re proud of that. We want these gifts to make you say ‘damn buddy, where did you find that?’ Because nothing is more enjoyable than being able to say ‘I know.’

Anaheim Ducks

Getting a gift for a Ducks fan is easy when you know what you’re doing. The hard part is that most people don’t know what they’re doing. Instead of getting something special, they grab whatever shirt or gift is available at the local sporting goods store with the team logo on it. We knew you wanted better than that. The Ducks have a passionate fanbase and something particular about them that draws people in. Beyond just being NHL fans in a general sense. These are fans who remember watching the team win the Stanley Cup in 2007. Fans who have…

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Boston Bruins

There’s a type of sports fan that requires no convincing. They know. Maybe they grew up watching Orr and Esposito. Maybe they came to it later, as a young kid watching Bergeron and Chara patrolling the big ice together. But either way, the black and gold runs through their veins and the Garden is hallowed ground and nobody needs to discuss it. Further. Buying that person a gift should be simple. It is decidedly not. Between pervasive cliches and official merchandise lines recycling the same ten products year after year, most stuff available feels made for the gift shop at…

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Buffalo Sabres

Being a Sabres fan isn't something you do casually. You watch every game hoping for more, you bruise your chest on every loss and you show up for another season of heartbreak because that's what it means to bleed blue and gold. The people in your life who feel that way about Buffalo don't want anything crappy. They don't need something that just sort of looks like hockey stuff. They want things that actually resonate with them; that speak to the team, the city and the identity that they've built their fandom around since their first game at KeyBank Center…

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Calgary Flames

Gift shopping for a Flames fan is simple. Stop looking at everything and start looking at the right things. There’s plenty of Calgary merchandise available. However, chances are it’s just some variation of the same jersey, cap or logo strewn across some half-hearted gift nobody wants. We set out to find the opposite. The things that matter. To the person who bleed red and yellow, and had the sight of the Saddledome branded into their retinas since they could first understand sports. The die-hard fan. It’s not hard to find things for Flames fans. It’s much harder to find the…

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Carolina Hurricanes

Buying a gift for the Canes fan in your life should be easy. Until you’re over their inbox press wondering if they need another jersey, if the mug you found is garbage, if whatever you’re looking at is any good or just slapped with a logo. We’ve stood there before. Fans of the Hurricanes are special too. They’ve watched this team truly take root, they remember when people said there was no way hockey could work in Raleigh and they aren’t about to settle for a keyring being told it’s enough. We cut through the noise and selected items we…

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Chicago Blackhawks

Putting together a list of gifts for Blackhawks fans is easier than actually buying one of them something. There’s a lot of Blackhawks merchandise out there. Most of it is uninspired. The kind of thing you stick in a drawer or wear once to a watch party before retiring it quietly. We didn’t want to compile a list like that.We wanted to curate the stuff that an actual fan would be genuinely excited to receive. The kind of gift that doesn’t just say “Blackhawks” but shows you were paying attention. That you know who they are and what this team…

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Colorado Avalanche

Picking out a gift for an Avalanche fan should be simple. Unless you’re staring blankly at a sea of generic jerseys and wondering if that person already owns three Avalanche everything you’re looking at. There’s NHL merch for days. Most of it is okay. Okay isn’t good, and it’s certainly not what you wanted to find. We built this shop for the diehard Avalanche fans out there. The fans that stuck by through the rebuild, know what Nathan MacKinnon means to that franchise and community, and proudly supported the team through the lean years before the Cup returned to Denver…

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Columbus Blue Jackets

Buying a gift for someone who likes the Blue Jackets sounds easy until you’re staring at shelves full of merch wondering what the hell you buy. Licensed merchandise at your generic sports retailer is annoyingly ubiquitous; that logo on the same mug next to that beanie doesn’t scream ‘This person knows who you root for’. We wanted more than that for you. We wanted gifts that a diehard Columbus fan would love, not just own. Being a Blue Jackets fan is a labour of love. It’s meant committing through some terrible seasons and understanding the difference between buying stuff to…

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Dallas Stars

Gifts for Dallas Stars fans should be easy. You know. Stars jersey, Stars hat, mug emblazoned with the Tony Horton "Starsphere" logo. Easy. Except then you're in the sporting goods store staring at every imaginable version of all of the above and wondering if THIS is really what you should get or if you're just picking the obvious gift. Been there, got the blah bear onesie. Instead we went and asked around, foundjournalistsfancygiftideas fora real Stars fan and dug up some of our favorites that we thought every Stars fan would genuinely like. Hockey culture in Dallas is a specific…

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Detroit Red Wings

Lets get something out of the way right now. Hockey fans are loud. Red Wings fans are louder. If you know one you know the difference. Fans that raised our own kids on Johan Franzen killing penalties in OT, fans that can remember the feeling of back to back cups in the late nineties like it was last year, fans that feel pride in a way that only comes from watching a franchise make the playoffs more years in a row than most teams have been in existence. Taking care when buying for these folks is required. You cannot waltz…

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Edmonton Oilers

Some Oilers fans are easy to shop for. They know the dynasty years backwards, they have strong feelings about the current team that they will impart to you with or without invitation, and they care about game night like other people care about doctors’ appointments. If you know what you’re doing buying for them is simple. Buying for that Oilers fan when you don’t follow hockey yourself is a tougher task. That’s why we built this gift guide. An Oilers fan is not just another hockey fan and a gift that would be great for another hockey fan might not…

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Florida Panthers

For one person on your list, this has felt like a long time coming. The Panthers faithful have waited through the drought, come close but not close enough, seasons where playoff hope arrived in October and skedaddled before Thanksgiving dinner. And so when this team began to win, like actually win, it meant something more to those that had waited through the dark times. Purchasing a present for that person isn’t difficult when you know what you are really buying. When you realize you’re not buying merchandise. You’re buying validation. The Collection was built for those panther fans who care…

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Los Angeles Kings

The loyalty of Kings fans is a specific type of loyalty. It is not fair-weather. It weathered the lean years, the rebuilds, losses that stung far too deeply, and came out the other side with two Stanley Cup banners hanging from the rafters of Crypto.com Arena and a fanbase that doesn’t need to be convinced once, twice, three times…but always. Shopping for that person can be easy if you know what you’re doing. The problem? Most gift guides don’t. It’s why we put this collection together. Because Kings fans deserve better than a basic black and silver mug you can…

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Minnesota Wild

Some fans are easy. You know the ones we mean. They’re the ones who you don’t even have to convince. They already bought the jersey. They’re already tracking the roster. But they’re the ones who will appreciate something special, something that shows you listened when you were shopping for them. That was the challenge we wanted to take head on with this guide. Minnesota isn’t just loyal to their teams. Minnesota lives and dies with their teams. This is a state where kids proudly cut their hockey teeth on frozen ponds before they've ever stepped foot in an “official” rink.…

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Montreal Canadiens

Hockey fans. Then there’s Habs fans. It’s different. Supporting Montreal is familial. It’s sketched into your being across kitchen tables and inherited through decades of Stanley Cup lore only to become ingrained deeper than skin through every excruciating playoff defeat and every miraculous triumph. Buying a gift for the bleu, blanc et rouge supporter in your life is a responsibility. When you love this team, you notice when someone gets it wrong. That’s why we put this collection together. Time and time again we kept seeing guys gone wrong. You pick something so generic it could just as easily belong…

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Nashville Predators

There is something specific about buying for a Predators fan that separates it from buying for fans of other teams. Nashville hockey culture has its own personality, loud and proud and genuinely unlike anything else in the league, and the people who love this team feel that deeply. They do not just follow the Preds. They live it. So finding something that actually honours that rather than just slapping a logo on a mediocre product takes more effort than most people want to put in, which is exactly why we did it for you. We picked everything in this collection…

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New Jersey Devils

There is a certain pride that comes with being a Devils fan. You endured the lean years. You endured people asking you if you accidentally said your favourite teams were both New York sports teams. You made it out the other side more stubborn and more Devils loving than ever. That kind of dedication shouldn’t be answered with a hastily picked generic jersey from your local Sports Got = Profit warehouse. No, your fandom is worth something built with as much care as you have thanklessly given to your team year after year. We built this shop with you in…

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New York Islanders

The kind of loyalty that pours into sports fandom is something that gets passed down from generation to generation right alongside your last name. Islanders fans are that kind of fan. They’ve supported this team through the downtimes and the dead periods, through arena debates and the comforting blanket of knowing you’re a part of something thats stubborn and proud and so very Long Island. When we were putting this collection together, that’s who we thought of. Not the casual flier by. The diehard. Finding gifts for Islanders fans isn’t actually the difficult part. The difficult part is finding gifts…

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New York Rangers

There are some Rangers fans out there who already own the jersey. Already have the flag. Already know every guy on this year’s roster by number. Shopping for that person is either really easy or really hard depending on how you choose to look at it. Easy because you know precisely what they care about. Hard because every obvious gift idea has already been exhausted and you’re not really going to throw a generic MSG snow globe at them and expect it to go over well. That is the problem we wanted to solve when compiling this list. We wanted…

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Ottawa Senators

Being a Senators fan isn’t for everyone. You’ve endured the rebuilds. You’ve survived the basement days of the standings. You’ve stuck around for all of it and more because that’s what diehard fans do. Anyone in your life who bleeds red and black doesn’t need you to try and convince them. They’ve got it bad already. What they need is for you to show them that you do too. And that’s where most gift buying goes wrong. Hockey Gifts Gifts that could apply to fans of any team are easy to find. Gifts that truly connect with the recipient? Those…

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