Every road game I have been to I have made sure to pick up at least one enamel pin for my board. Maybe when it's a little more full I'll make it hockey specific but we aren't there yet. I've seen some people make road trip jerseys; where they attach patches of the teams they have visited on their home teams jersey. I've thought of doing that too (but cleaning that seems like a chore). What other traditions do you guys have when you visit a new arena?

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  2. I used to be able to get the “official game pucks” in the little plastic cases at every arena but I went to Minnesota for the first time last season and they didn’t have them. I usually like to write the date and the score on them.

  3. I like to try and see the bluejackets lose at each arena.

    so far it’s been NYI, NYR, and LAK; I saw them play the devils and the caps, but they won those games, surprisingly, respectively.

  5. I try to buy a puck from the gift shop if I can. When I was younger my dad traveled for work a lot and tried to catch games when he was in bigger cities and would always bring back a puck so I just try to keep it up

  9. I’ve only done this once so it’s not a full on tradition yet, but I would like to make it a tradition. If it’s a stadium/team that I’m not actively rooting against (ie Devils, Islanders) I’d like to go there and see the Rangers play, then go to the next game (or the game before if it happens to work that way) and pick up the local team’s jersey and attend as a ‘fan’ of the home team.

    Again, so far Vancouver has been my only time doing this, but would love to do it again this coming season.

    Edit: Also, local beer. Stanley Park Brewing company has some good stuff.

  10. Magnets usually. Just after high school, me and a friend did an original 6 trip. My favorite was the Montreal Forum. The building had this electric vibe, like the ghosts of the past were still there. It had this fog in the rafters that never went away, and would swirl around the banners.. gave the place life. Growing up playing hockey it was the one place I always wanted to see and this was the last season before moving to the new building. Funny story, when the game was over, me and my friend stayed seated, just wanting to take in as much as we could before we left.. as a group of people left, they laughed and said something in French. I wasn’t fluent but my friend was, and she translated that they said ‘the game is over, you can go home now’, she told them that we were visiting and just wanting to appreciate the amazing building, the group actually sat down with us for a few minutes and then we all left together.

  12. I always go to the team store and take a lap around the stadium. Always want to pick up a vibe when you first enter and get a feel for everything else

  16. I don’t know if all arenas do this but the ones I’ve been to usually have a souvenir puck that has both team logos and the date. So I grab one of those. The Kraken puck is the teal colour so it’s kind of neat.

  17. I go for enamel pins as well, but my SO goes for hats. He has…a lot of hats

  19. I have a “dad travel hat” for pins we pick up at the stadium. It’s a cowboy hat only worn on trips.

    My 5yo son has a scratch off map of North America for all the stadiums and he gets a puck (from the store) at each game.

    We only have 3 stadiums/scracth-offs/pucks/pins at this point, but buffalo is next this season when the rangers are in town!

  22. Game day puck. Tho I like the way Anaheim did it with buy one of the practice game day pucks.

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