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 Publisher and Editor-In-Chief since 2023.
Executive Editor & Producer, Blueshirt Banter Media
Marketer | Filmmaker | Percussionist | Man about town
Editor-At-Large
Creator of Their Hockey Counts, Co-Creator of CapBesties and Bench Bosses
Staff Writers
Staff Writer
Jake graduated from the University of Alabama in 2024 and has covered hockey for a number of years. He's been a die hard Rangers fan his entire life and looks forward to covering the game I love with one of the best fanbases in the world.
Staff Writer
Chip is a lifelong Rangers fan with a professional background in communications and nonprofit operations. He still hasn’t gotten over the Zubov and Norstrom trades. While Chip enjoys a quality slice, he is definitively NOT Chris Drury.
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
Hartford Wolf Pack Correspondent
Keegan Jarvis is a Connecticut native covering the Hartford Wolf Pack for Blueshirt Banter and The Calder Times. He worked for the Wolf Pack as their Game Night Media Assistant during the 2022-23 season.
Blueshirt Banter Media Columnist
Professional hockey podcast listener and paraphraser. Unpaid.
Staff Writer
To many, Snark Messier is what happens when a forum thread becomes sentient. A walking contradiction, wrapped in sarcasm and a Starter jacket, Snark spends his time rewatching VHS footage of the Rangers, rewriting tweets 47 times, and pretending he's not judging your allegiance to bottom-six players. In his free time, Snark enjoys Beethoven by candlelight, 19th century French oil paintings, and whatever else makes sense with the rest of this sentence.
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.
Blueshirt Bandwidth Podcast Ombudsman
Charlie is a New York native and lifelong Rangers fan. He became friends with Eric while watching the Rangers deep postseason runs in 2012, 2014, and 2015 with other displaced New Yorkers at the Racine Plumbing Bar in Chicago. He became a Rangers season subscriber when he moved back to New York City, and now resides in Atlanta where he hopes that the league will expand again so that he can get cheap NHL tickets for 5 years until the team moves to Canada.
Intern
Jake DiBlasio is a junior at Delaware Valley University majoring in media and communications. He is also an offensive lineman on the school's football team. Jake is a die-hard New York Giants and Rangers fan and loves watching all sports.