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.’

Philadelphia Flyers

Some Flyers fans don’t need any convincing. They grew up watching the team, remember where they were when those big games happened and orange and black is more than just a colour scheme; it’s their identity. Finding that person a gift should be easy. For the most part it’s not because options range from cheap souvenir garbage to just another jersey they probably already own. We wanted better than that. Not because Flyers fans are hard to buy for, but because they deserve better than stuff that doesn’t reflect just how deep that loyalty runs. Short of stealing tickets to…

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Pittsburgh Penguins

Buying a Penguins fan something is a task that shouldn’t be taken lightly. If you’ve ever loved something as much as these people love the Penguins, you know quality merch from those companies who understand what fandom is vs. some marketing folderol. We know this because we have been on the receiving end of pointless swag just as much as anyone else. Fans of the Penguins are special. They have witnessed the glory of the Lemieux era, The Crosby era, the back to back championships and every crushing defeat between. They don’t need something to remind them who they cheer…

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San Jose Sharks

Getting a legitimately cool gift for a Sharks fan is surprisingly difficult. All the “go-to” stuff. The stuff you’ll find at every sporting goods store. Things people half-heartedly accept before forgetting about. Slapping a team logo on a bag of rocks does not make it a gift. We’ve never felt that way and we’re not about to start now. When we compiled our list we were going for the opposite of those kinds of things. We wanted stuff that a true San Jose Sharks fan would be excited to own, use, or display in their house without feeling like an…

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Seattle Kraken

Buying a gift for a Kraken fan is easily the simplest task in the world or an utter nightmare depending on how closely you’ve been paying attention to what’s happened this year. Do it right and you seem like someone who cared enough to listen. Get it wrong and you gift another admirably muted hockey sweater that will be relegated to a drawer with last year’s sweater and the green hoodie from Christmas 2019. We’ve experienced far too many of both scenarios to count and this guide was created so we’d have better options. While you can certainly make the…

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St. Louis Blues

Buying a gift for a Blues fan can be tough. Not because there’s a lack of stuff available, but because most merch comes off the heels of someone who doesn’t understand the game. Clipart logos emblazoned on shitty mugs. Ill-fitting jerseys from 2005. Merch that screams fan until you look at the quality and realize you’re probably wasting your money. Been there, done that, ain’t doing it no more. Buying gifts for Blues fans is special. Supporting St. Louis teams requires a certain type of dedication that’s tough to describe if you didn’t live it growing up. The Blues took…

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Figuring out what to get someone who likes the Tampa Bay Lightning should be simple. But once you’re actually put in charge of finding that gift it becomes clear the official store sells jerseys in every size and little else of value and every other gift site just screams mint your playoff soul away with licensed mugs and keychains. We get it. We’ve been there too. So instead of reading into what everyone else is selling, we did what we always do. Ignore 95% of the available options and find that tiny handful of gifts we’d actually want to give…

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Toronto Maple Leafs

For as long as there have been sports teams there has been a brand of loyalty that is transferred between relatives as if it were an old couch; born into instead of chosen. For many, that couch is striped blue and white. Leafs fans will not tolerate hyperbole, but bear with us. They’ve had their hearts broken more times than any human should subject themselves to and they keep coming back. Next season. And the season after that. Fuck it, even the one after that too. Buying a present for a Leafs fan is simple if you know what you’re…

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Utah Hockey Club

Something new is brewing in Utah and if the hockey fan in your life already has it bad you know they don’t do things halfway. The Utah Hockey Club came charging out of the gate with a level of enthusiasm most expansions teams never see in a decade. These fans didn’t get given a sticker as a kid or inherit a patina of loyalty from a parent or grandparent they picked it themselves. Specifically. Recently. And with genuine enthusiasm, which if anything makes the hunt for that perfect gift all the more fun because nothing here should feel taken for…

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Vancouver Canucks

Gift shopping for a Canucks fan seems easy until you try to do it. Official merch sites are sprawling wastelands that are impossible to navigate and are mostly just jerseys in every size. Generic sports gift guides aren't much better. So we leaned into what we do with everything on this site: asked ourselves the only question that really matters. Would we gift this to someone we loved? We know Canucks fans. We know they will cheer through losses so heartbreaking they make you consider ending your life prematurely just to spend more time with your team. We know they…

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Vegas Golden Knights

There's a feeling you get as a Vegas Golden Knights fan that you don't get from rooting for just about any other professional sports team. They didn't exist 10 years ago and now this. This undeniable culture that makes you feel fierce, loyal, and completely connected to a team that's already become your own. The gold and grey. The knight in armour before puck drop. The collective roar in T Mobile Arena that feels authentic, not manufactured. If you have a friend who bleeds Vegas you know finding THAT merch can be half the battle. It matters. Getting them something…

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Washington Capitals

Shopping for a Capitals fan is either incredibly easy or damn near impossible depending on how well you know them. Try too hard to be basic and you’ll settle for a logo emblazoned coffee mug that never leaves the cupboard. Go with something too specific and you’ll find yourself neck-deep in jersey number controversy you don’t want any part of. We get it, that’s why we curated this list how we did. We only included things we know a Capitals fan will actually use. Not because it was the top Google search result, not because it ships quickly (though it…

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Winnipeg Jets

Some people watch the Jets. Some people live the Jets. They know the lines, they debate goaltending decisions, they know team history in both cities and care about both expansions. Finding a gift for that Jets fan can be easy to mess up. Generic NHL gear is available almost everywhere online and most of it looks like it was made by committee for no one in particular. We didn’t want this to be that. We built this collection by asking ourselves one question. Would we recommend this to someone who bleeds blue and white? Would they want to own it…

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