FACE-OFF GAMES RELEASING HOCKEY HARDWARE ON NOVEMBER 1ST
OTTAWA, ON – Hockey Hardware: The Original Game will be released and available for purchase as of 12:01am EDT on Saturday, November 1, 2025 on FACE-OFF GAMES new website that is powered by Shopify. Stay up late with the help of your Halloween sugar rush, or set your alarm early, so you can be the first to visit www.faceoffgames.ca and buy your copy while supplies last!
ABOUT HOCKEY HARDWARE
Hockey Hardware is a fun, new hockey-themed game of luck and strategy that is dynamic, interactive, and competitive. Created and designed by a Canadian hockey fan and made in Canada by a Canadian manufacturer, it plays between two and four players ages 14+ and takes about 45 to 90+ minutes to play.
“Hockey Hardware is fun, entertaining, and unpredictable,” said Hockey Hardware creator Billy Morrison. “No two games are the same and no lead is safe. Massive comebacks, major upsets, tight matches, and big blowouts are possible in every game.”
GAME OBJECTIVE
Your objective in Hockey Hardware is to win the Champion's Cup Trophy Card by having the most Trophy Cards before the end of the Third Period.
Players compete for 11 Trophy Cards in total. Each Trophy Card represents a different Hockey Stat category. For example, the player with the most goals will earn the ‘Elite Sniper’ Trophy Card, while the player with the most hits will earn ‘The Enforcer’ Trophy Card, and so on.
Players earn Trophy Cards by rolling dice to collect as many Hockey Stats as they can, while doing their best to avoid rolling Adversity, and strategically playing 'Game Cards' to get themselves ahead, push their opponents back, or defend their Hockey Stats.
"Hockey Hardware is designed so that anyone can have fun and quickly learn how to play. No hockey knowledge or experience is needed to win," said Morrison.
INSPIRED BY FANTASY HOCKEY
Fantasy hockey was the inspiration behind Hockey Hardware. Morrison came up with the game concept in late 2018, while playing on a fantasy hockey app with his brother, Alex Morrison, and 12 of their friends. The group has been playing fantasy hockey since their university days in 2012.
Last year, Hockey Hardware successfully funded on Kickstarter after crowdfunding almost $50,000 in just 60 days from 270 Backers across Canada and the USA.
PROUDLY CANADIAN
Following that crowdfunding campaign, Morrison secured the services of a Canadian manufacturer in Montréal, Québec to make most of the game components.
“Manufacturing Hockey Hardware in Canada is perfectly fitting for a hockey-themed game. It's also unique in the game industry, and really sets us apart from other games that are often made in foreign countries and imported into Canada for retail," said Morrison.
"I am very proud of the fact that Hockey Hardware is made in Canada. My decision to do it this way directly supports Canadian manufacturing, Canadian jobs, and Canadian workers, at a very important time for our country, all while using mostly Canadian parts and materials, which has additional spin-off effects supporting even more Canadians throughout the supply chain."
Hockey Hardware and FACE-OFF GAMES are proudly Canadian.
SCORE A DISCOUNT
Early subscribers to FACE-OFF GAMES e-newsletter, THE FACE-OFF FLYER, will receive a special pre-release discount that they can use at checkout to buy Hockey Hardware: The Original Game after FACE-OFF GAMES unlocks its website at 12:01am EDT on November 1, 2025.
Don't miss out or miss the net - subscribe today at www.faceoffgames.ca to score this special offer!
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