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Most hockey merchandise is designed to be worn once and forgotten: a cap you grab off a rack, indistinguishable from a thousand others with the same crest. ZippyBack™ was built to be the opposite. Every piece is patented, serialized, and...

Every collection starts the same way: one piece that means something. Maybe it's a jersey from a game you actually went to, a signed puck from a player you grew up watching, or the first cap you ever wore to...

Zippy Brands founder Joel Matlin granted U.S. Patent 12,757,958 for ZippyBack, the patented, serialized wearable collectible that snaps onto any baseball cap.

Some arenas host a team. Maple Leaf Gardens hosted eleven Stanley Cup championships, a Beatles concert, a heavyweight title fight, and a Cold War hockey summit, all inside a building that was thrown up in five months during the worst...

Glenn Healy was never supposed to be an NHL goaltender. He went undrafted out of Western Michigan University in 1985, the kind of resume that usually ends in the minors, not a 15-year NHL career, a Stanley Cup ring, and...

It's the line on every ZippyBack™ product page and every box: officially licensed by the NHL Alumni Association. It's easy to read past it. But that license is the reason ZippyBack™ exists at all, and understanding what it actually covers,...

Some dynasties win a lot. The Montreal Canadiens of the late 1970s won differently: four straight Stanley Cups, a season so dominant it still holds records nearly fifty years later, and a locker room stacked with future Hall of Famers...

ZippyBack™, the officially licensed NHL Alumni Association wearable collectible, today announced Sunil "Sunny" Peetush as its official brand ambassador for Montréal. Sunny is the collector and superfan behind HabsCave, a Montréal Canadiens memorabilia collection housed in his Saint-Lazare, Quebec home,...

Some players fill a stat sheet. Wendel Clark filled Maple Leaf Gardens. Across fifteen NHL seasons and three separate stints in Toronto, Clark built a career that was equal parts scoring touch and physical toll: a first overall pick who...

Toronto, ON — Zippy Brands Inc. is proud to announce it has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the NHLAA (NHL Alumni Association) to produce ZippyBack™ wearable collectibles featuring retired NHL players. The partnership brings a new dimension to hockey fan engagement by allowing fans to proudly display iconic players’ names and numbers on the back of any baseball-style cap.