Well my day is ruined.


Well my day is ruined.

36 comments
  1. Teams better up their equipment budget. They will need to replace them every other game.

  2. Wow the NHL is really leaning into the budget sport meme if only the tickets were budget.

  3. eBay baby!!šŸ’Ŗāš”ļøEven found some of the past Reeboks. Got all my authentics from them in great condition for half the price. Just gotta be patient and research.

  4. Fanatics couldā€™ve purchased a legacy hockey label like Bauer, CCM, etc and use that as their hockey brand, and we wouldā€™ve loved it like the lemmings we are.

  5. Looks like my Hedman jersey is gonna be my forever jersey. Their stuff sucks, and if you order something they won’t let you get a cash refund without taking 10%, so they hold your money hostage too.

  6. Just made sure I will not buy another jersey, especially after the patches fell off the last Fanatics jersey, sitting in the closet.

  7. But does that mean the soft looking dimpled texture on the shoulders will be gone? It looks like good quality paper towels and I legit love it.

  8. Fanatics is wet hot trash. This is a sad day. Fanatics knows they can continue to produce straight garbage because they own the market. Itā€™s is very apparent that no one in professional sports or fanatics corporate is listening to these endless customer complaints about the awful quality of their products.

  9. Honestly, at this point might as well just buy a knockoff from fucking aliexpress. They may get the colors a shade wrong but hell it’s still better quality than a fucking fanatics ~~sweater~~ roll of toilet paper.

  10. I haven’t purchased a jersey in a very long time. But I have a few scattered thoughts on this:

    Fanatics is doing something similar with MLB & NBA. How have those league’s fan apparel fared?

    Very few naming/branding deals run the full (ten year) term. Who can predict what “Fanatics, Inc.” will be called in ten years?

    The owner, Micahel Rubin, seems to have made his billions with outlet-quality e-commerce. We might order our next Bolts sweaters from “[ShopPremiumOutlets.com](https://ShopPremiumOutlets.com)!”

    Let’s hope the players won’t have to wear the exact same merch we poor schleppers would buy.

    In ten years, every piece of clothing will be sold by TJ Maxx anyway.

  11. Leave it to the NHL to go with a shitty FAN APPAREL company for on ice jerseys instead of an established hockey brand. FFS.

  12. This is awful.

    Not a good look for the NHL that they couldn’t get an actual manufacturer of sports apparel and had to go with this BS-knockoff-crap supplier. Ugh.

  13. Ok fuck fanatics. Glad I splurged in jerseys this year. Iā€™ll never buy a fucking fanatics made jersey.

  14. Everyone who bought a fanatics instead of an adidas for half the price is happy dancing now

  15. You know, I never understood the Fanatics hate. And then I actually held on to one at the Bolts shop at the airport and immediately understood. I worship at the altar of MIC Koho, CCMs, and my one Adidas RR 2.0. Describing in detail the cheapness of Fanatics gives Fanatics way more attention if deserves. I will exclusively be jersey shopping for the goods from the folks at r/hockeyjerseys and ebay from now on.

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