Meet Our Team
Editorial Team
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Joe Fortunato has been with Blueshirt Banter since its inception in 2009 and has been the Managing Editor since 2011.
Executive Editor
Perennially juggling things here and at Knights on Ice. Living & dying with New York Mets. ⚾🍎 "Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great."
Managing Editor
Creator of Their Hockey Counts, Co-Creator of CapBesties and Bench Bosses
Managing Editor & Executive Producer, Blueshirt Banter Media
Marketer | Filmmaker | Percussionist | Man about town
Staff Writers
Staff Writer
writer. annoying new yorker. words Offside News and Blueshirt Banter BU ‘23. formerly Foreign Press Association. usually yapping about NYR + TBL + TOR. 🇺🇦🇨🇿
Staff Writer
Tom has been writing for Blueshirt Banter since the beginning of the 2021-22 season. He previously wrote for The Hockey Writers from 2014 through 2018, and served as a copy editor there from 2016 through 2018. He grew up as a New York Rangers fan and has followed the team closely since 1997. In addition, Tom is a two-time champion of New York Rangers Twitter Jeopardy. Other interests include Clemson University sports (mainly football) and guitar playing.
Staff Writer
Indie Singer/Songwriter. An Uber driver once told me I was brilliant. Lifetime Rangers fan, writer for Blueshirt Banter. SC ‘18 🔻M.B.A #NYR #LGM
Staff Writer
Jack has been a contributing writer to Blueshirt Banter since October 2016. In addition to his duties for Blueshirt Banter, Jack also covers high school sports in northern New Jersey as a freelance sports journalist for NJ.com
Staff Writer
Before he began contributing to Blueshirt Banter at the beginning of the 2021-22 season, Roberto was a long time reader going all the way back to the site's original launch. Living in enemy territory he savors any possibility to discuss or debate one of his favorite things on this planet, the New York Rangers. Other interests include anime, playing music, and table top games.