NHL Memes For Opening Night Laughs

Updated on October 9, 2025

I tried “limbering up” my thumbs for live-tweeting and pulled something—I’m playoff rusty—but these NHL memes snapped me back like a stick off the half-wall. With the season dropping puck tonight, my group chat is louder than the goal horn, r/hockey is buzzing, and Sportsnet’s pregame and hockey memes feel like the first coffee after a long summer.

Hockey season is hope season: every team’s still undefeated, and your buddy is already penciling in a parade route. Consider this a warm-up lap of pure internet joy—opening night highlights, bench-door bloopers, and fans arguing over Stanley Cup predictions like it’s a sacred spreadsheet. If you’ve been stockpiling hockey memes since July, welcome home to hockey memes and NHL opening night bliss.

32 NHL Memes For Opening Night

Okay, gallery survivors, did you clock how many fanbases are convinced the refs attended their rival’s barbecue? Classic. Also, shoutout to the arena nachos cameo—nothing says optimism like paying $14 to believe in a fresh forecheck. The best NHL memes nail that annual mood swing from “Cup or bust” to “we’re rebuilding” by the second TV timeout.

There’s a particular art to chirps in October: crisp, overconfident, a little too caffeinated. Toronto Maple Leafs fans are already bracing for destiny, Oilers faithful are busy manifesting highlight reels, and everyone’s pretending not to check fantasy matchups during family dinner. Somewhere, a turnover just became a meme template faster than a breakaway.

If your team won tonight, you’re sending these to your group chat with smug timestamps. If they lost… you’re still sending them, because coping via memes is basically hockey tape for the soul. Also, save a few for morning stand-up; nothing unites a meeting like a perfectly timed goalie reaction face.

As the season stretches from crisp fall nights to midwinter grind, keep this set handy for slump insurance and victory laps alike. When the shootouts get silly and the power plays get spicy, this stash will do more for morale than a lucky towel. And yes, there’s at least one meme that speaks fluent “too many men.”

If you’re still chuckling after these NHL memes, keep the roll going with 41 NFL Memes From Week 4, then ride the vibes into 27 Sports Tweets To Get You Fired Up before finishing strong with 25 Fantasy Football Memes For Your Pool. Trust me, the algorithm approves.

Author bio: Mike Hartley once sharpened skates with a butter knife—kidding—but his humor is definitely a little dull and dangerously effective.