Back to Hockey: Your 2026-27 NHL Season Kit

Hockey is back. The 2026-27 NHL season drops the puck on Tuesday, September 29, and if your gear drawer is still in summer mode, this is the week to fix it. Going back to hockey properly doesn't mean one jersey you wear eight times between now and April — it means a small, deliberate stack of pieces that covers a freezing arena, a warm living room, and the entire stretch of hockey season in between.

This year that stretch is longer than it's ever been. The league expanded the regular season to 84 games, so there is more hockey to dress for than in any previous year. Here's the kit.

Why a kit beats a single jersey

A jersey is a great thing to own and a terrible thing to only own. It's expensive, it's hot indoors, it doesn't layer under anything, and it looks out of place everywhere except a seat in the building. Most fans end up wearing one maybe six or eight times a season and defaulting to a plain sweatshirt the rest of the time.

A season kit solves that. Four or five pieces at different weights, all repping the same team, means you always have the right thing for the temperature and the setting — and you're actually wearing your team instead of storing it.

Here's how it breaks down.

1. The tank: your warm-arena and under-layer piece

Start here. Arenas are cold, but the concourse, the bar beforehand, and your own couch are not — and a hockey tank is the piece that handles all three. Worn on its own in September and April, worn under a hoodie in January.

Our men's hockey tanks and women's hockey tanks are 100% polyester with sublimated, full-color graphics. The women's cut is racerback and runs XS–3XL.

That sublimation detail matters more than it sounds. Sublimated graphics are dyed into the fiber rather than printed on top of it, which means they physically cannot crack or peel — the failure mode that kills most screen-printed fan gear by year three.

2. The tee: the one you'll actually wear most

The unglamorous workhorse. A hockey t-shirt is what you wear to work on a game day, to the rink for your kid's practice, and under a jacket in the fall. Ours are 100% cotton with a surface print, unisex, XS–4XL.

Cotton tees are the one piece in the kit that is a surface print rather than a sublimation — so treat them a little gentler in the wash than the rest. Inside out, cold, no dryer if you can help it.

3. The hoodie: October through April

If you buy one thing off this list, buy the hoodie. It's the piece that carries the entire back half of the season.

Our hockey hoodies are polyester with all-over sublimated team graphics and hockey-lace drawstrings, unisex XS–4XL, and some run a kangaroo pouch front pocket. The all-over graphic is the differentiator — this isn't a blank hoodie with a crest slapped on the chest.

We went deep on fit, weight and what to look for in our complete hockey hoodie buying guide if you want the long version.

4. The windbreaker: the layer most fans skip

This is the gap in almost everybody's setup. You own a tank, a tee and a hoodie — and then a plain winter coat that says nothing about your team, which you wear over all of it for five months.

A hockey windbreaker fixes that. 100% polyester, hooded, XS–4XL, hockey-lace hood drawstrings, kangaroo pouch front pocket, machine wash safe. Light enough for a fall tailgate on its own, cut to go over a hoodie when it drops below freezing.

It's the piece that keeps you repping your team on the walk from the parking lot — which, in a cold-weather market, is a real chunk of your night. We made the full case for it in the cold-arena layer you're missing.

5. The wildcard: something nobody else in your section has

Four pieces in, you've got the season covered. The fifth is the fun one.

Check the new releases — it's where the freshest designs land before they filter into the main collections, and it's the fastest way to find something that hasn't been on three thousand backs already. The full NHL collection runs 540+ pieces across every team, so there's real depth to dig through.

This is the slot where alternate colorways, retro-leaning designs and one-off drops live. It's also the slot most likely to sell out, so it rewards looking early in the season rather than in December.

Opening-night checklist

Seven days out, here's the short version:

• One tank — arena warmth is unpredictable, and this layers under everything
• One tee — the highest-mileage piece you'll own
• One hoodie — non-negotiable; this is the season
• One windbreaker — the layer that makes the hoodie work in January
• Order by mid-week — so it's on your back for puck drop, not arriving the following Tuesday

Not sure what actually works in the building versus at a watch party? Our what to wear to a hockey game guide breaks it down for men and women. And if you're building from nothing, Preseason Prep walks through assembling a fan wardrobe from scratch.

A note on sizing

Quick reference so you're not guessing at checkout:

Everything on the list is 100% machine wash safe.

Get the kit together

The season is 84 games long this year. That's a lot of nights to spend in a plain grey sweatshirt.

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