Important factors to consider for your custom hockey pin:

Quality

It is best for you to acquire the highest quality depiction/ image/ design of any logo or art that you send us so as to expedite the design process. This assists us in designing high quality and accurate pins for you. The better the art, the better the final result!

However, we are aware that not at all teams have high resolution artwork. It is completely fine if your team does not, just send us what you do have, and we will have our talented team of graphic designers turn it into a one-of-a-kind trading pin design!

Sizing

Size is also important! Size matters! Most trading pins are between 1.5” – 2”. Anything beyond this is considered to be a large trading pin. We strongly encourage our clients to bring pins of this size to tournaments so that other teams will feel enticed to trade with your players.

This is because smaller pins are not as popular in the trading industry. If you have room in your budget, always bump up your size to be as large as possible. Big pins = easier trading!

Colors

Colors are exciting and fun but try to keep your color selection minimal. The more colors you add, the longer it will take to create them. Keeping your color palette to about four colors is recommended.

Black metal is an ideal material for trading pins because black is a common paint color. Silver and black metal are the most popular plating colors for trading pins.

Quantity

Our customers often ask what number of pins are normally produced for hockey teams. Although every team is different, most teams land somewhere between 200 – 1000 pins. For large tournaments like CCM World Invite Chicago, it is not uncommon for teams to take 2000+ pins to trade. For smaller local tournaments 300-400 pins is very popular.

A rule of thumb that we share with our clients is this: “try to take at least one pin per player on your team multiplied by how many teams are going to be at the tournament”. For example: Your team has fifteen children and the tournament you are going to is going to have twenty teams present. You would want to order at least 300 pins (15 x 20 = 300).

Something else to keep in mind is to order more than you think you might need. You can always give some extras away to coaches or siblings of players, but to try and have 15-20 additional pins produced and shipped to you after your main order has already been delivered can be a very expensive and stressful undertaking.