Custom Hockey Trophies for Tournaments and Leagues

Q: Can the award carry our tournament logo?

Yes. The award is designed around your artwork , printed in full color, and acrylic can be cut to the outline of the logo.

Short answer

Hockey awards are mostly ordered for tournaments: a champion and finalist set for each division, a game or tournament MVP, and awards for top scorer and top goaltender. Associations and adult leagues add season awards on top. We design them from your tournament or team artwork and build them in acrylic, wood and metal, cut to shape and printed in full color. They are designed awards, not catalog figures. There is no minimum order, and you approve a design proof first.

Awards for a sport that lives on tournaments

Youth hockey runs on tournaments, and every one of them needs awards on the table by the final. The person ordering is usually a tournament director or an association volunteer working from a division list.

A tournament’s awards are also its souvenir. Teams travel for them, and the piece that goes home in the gear bag carries the event’s name for years. That is the argument for designing it from the tournament logo instead of choosing a stock figure: the award can be cut to the shape of the event mark, a crest, a puck or crossed sticks, in the event’s colors.

See custom awards for how we design from scratch, and medallion awards for pieces worn on a ribbon, which many tournaments use for finalists.

Hockey awards by type

Tournament champions

A team award for the bench or the association’s case, and an individual piece for every player and coach.

Finalists

Medallions or a smaller version of the champion design for the team that lost the final.

Most valuable player

Per game, per final or for the whole tournament. Game MVPs are often small pieces handed over on the ice.

Top scorer

The points leader for the tournament or the season. The award names the achievement; the total is usually left off.

Top goaltender

Goaltenders rarely win MVP, so most events give them an award of their own.

Most sportsmanlike

For a player or a whole team. Associations often make it the award with the most history behind it.

A tournament award list you can copy

This list is per division. Multiply it by the number of divisions, and decide early whether finalists receive the same form as champions or something smaller.

Typical award list for one division of a hockey tournament
Award	How many	What goes on it
Champions, team award	1	Tournament name, division, “Champions,” year
Champions, individual	One per player and coach	Same design, smaller
Finalists	One per player and coach	Tournament name, division, “Finalist,” year
Tournament MVP	1	Tournament name, award, year
Game MVPs	One or two per game	Tournament name and “Player of the Game”
Top scorer	1	Tournament name, award, year
Top goaltender	1	As above
Most sportsmanlike	1	As above

Almost none of these winners are known in advance, so tournament awards are normally made without names. That makes the design and the event name do all the work.

Rosters, goaltenders and game awards

Hockey rosters run larger than they look, because teams carry two goaltenders and several lines. Ask each division for its largest roster and order to that number, with a few spares for coaches and team managers.

Player-of-the-game awards add up quickly. A division with a dozen games and one award per team per game needs two dozen small pieces before the final is even played. A simple acrylic piece or a pin in the tournament design works well here, and it is the award most players actually keep.

Frozen Lake Invitational
Bantam Division
Champions · 2027

Season awards for associations and adult leagues

Away from tournaments, a youth association or an adult league gives season awards at a banquet: league champions, scoring leader, top goaltender, most improved, a coach’s award and volunteer thanks. Sports award categories and names has a fuller list.

Adult leagues often keep a single champion’s award that passes from team to team with a name plate for each season. Perpetual trophies covers how to plan one, including who holds it and when it comes back.

If younger divisions give every player an award, see participation awards. For thanking a coach at the end of the season, see coach gift ideas.

What to send us

The tournament or association name and logo.
The division list, with the largest roster in each.
Which individual awards you give, and whether game MVPs are part of it.
Whether this is an annual event, so the design can be reordered with the year changed.
The date of the first game, not only the final.

We send a design proof for the whole set and you approve it before anything is produced. Request a quote against the tournament date. Other team sports are in the Recognition Library.

Hockey Trophies FAQs

What awards does a hockey tournament need?

Per division: a champion team award, individual pieces for champions and finalists, a tournament MVP, and usually top scorer, top goaltender and most sportsmanlike. Many tournaments add a player-of-the-game award for every game.

How many individual awards should we order per team?

Order to the largest roster in the division, including both goaltenders, and add a few for coaches and the team manager.

Should finalists get trophies or medals?

Either works. Many tournaments give champions an award and finalists a medallion on a ribbon in the same design, which keeps the two clearly different on the ice.

Can the award carry our tournament logo?

Yes. The award is designed around your artwork, printed in full color, and acrylic can be cut to the outline of the logo.

Do tournament awards need names on them?

Usually not, because winners are not known until the final. If you want names on a team award afterward, raise it when you request the quote.

What are the awards made of?

Acrylic, wood and metal, made in our shop in Carson City, Nevada. We do not sell glass or crystal awards.

Racer in a helmet raising both arms as gold confetti falls under stage lights

DIVISIONS SET?

Send the division list

Tell us the tournament, the divisions, the roster sizes and the date of the first game. We design one set for the whole event and send a proof.

An annual tournament can reorder the same design each year with the year changed.

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