About

Tom Urtz Jr is an avid writer with a love of sports. If you need someone for anything involving the two fields, Tom is the person you are looking for. His passion for sports writing is only rivaled by the professionalism of his work.

Tom takes pride in providing in-depth, accurate, and professional sports coverage regarding the NHL

Tom serves Bleacher Report as both an NHL Featured Columnist and as a New York Rangers Featured Columnist.

Tom is a sports stats junky and is fascinated by all things regarding sports knowledge and trivia.

Tom hopes to become a full time sportswriter and eventually get into broadcasting because sports is his entire life.

If you ever want to strike up a conversation about sports you can follow him on Twitter @TomUrtzNYR: http://twitter.com/#!/TomUrtzNYR

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Mike Richter, Mike Piazza, Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan Callahan, Brad Richards,Marián Gáborík, David Wright and Eli Manning

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    New York Rangers, New York Mets and New York Giants

  • Favorite Coaches

    John Tortorella, Mike Keenan, Bobby Valentine, Tom Coughlin

  • All Time Sports Moment

    New York Rangers 1994 Cup Win and 2008/2012 Giants Super Bowl

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    June 30,2000 Mets comeback from 8 runs down in 8th Inning and Dec 3,1999 first Rangers game at Madison Square Garden

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Gretzky's Points Total

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

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  • James Wrabel, Jr. posted 5 days ago

    James Wrabel, Jr.

    Thanks, Tom. I'm coming for you!

  • Dan Slovsky posted 8 days ago

    Dan  Slovsky

    What a disappointing end to the Rangers' season, hopefully they will be contending for years to come. Lets go Rangers.

  • Anthony Kang posted 10 days ago

    Anthony Kang

    Hey Tom, as I've always stated, it's your prerogative to reedit as you see fit (actually, I changed it back to the original for you, I think). Thanks, as always, for your work.

  • Jeff Laniado posted 47 days ago

    Jeff Laniado

    Hey Tom,

    I'm a newly accepted B/R writer (and die-hard Rangers fan) and just want to start by saying I love your work and the season long coverage of the Blueshirts

    I am just beginning and I was wondering if you had any suggestions for increasing my exposure?

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated so thank you.

    Jeff Laniado

  • Ryan Callahan posted 52 days ago

    Ryan  Callahan

    Hello Tom, as a fellow Rangers writer i was wondering why you space so much in your articles.. Also you should lighten up with the 1-sided views because it sounds to biased. I dont know if you've read any of my articles yet but i was the #1 top writer 14 times for writing on Rangers articles and i have 24 #1 writer awards on bleacher reports all-around mlb and nhl articles.. so if you ever have any questions on sports or how to write more professionally, just give me a buzz... my email is NyRTomurtzisfat&sux@writing@aol.com alright buddy ill see ya, bye now

  • Erica Patten posted 58 days ago

    Erica Patten

    Happy to help, Tom!

  • Yoni Reichel posted 72 days ago

    Yoni Reichel

    Tom as a Ranger fan i would like to thank you for your amazing articles on our Blueshirts. You are my favorite writer on this site and your articles are always awesome! Keep up the good work bro!

  • billy the kid bruno posted 80 days ago

    billy the kid bruno

    Tom, do you think we should go for a player like Parise in the offseason or go for a couple solid players like Barret Jackman and Ray Whitney? i figure parise would cost too much for 1 good player, we have our franchise player already and i think we should grab depth. That way we get a solid extra defenseman and a solid left winger

  • justin zap posted 85 days ago

    justin zap

    This is a personal question so i hope you dont mind but how much do you weigh? you look so fat and jolly...its kind of cute

  • Bill Drexler posted 102 days ago

    Bill Drexler

    Tom can you let me know what going on with recent rumors besides nash. I wanna know if we're making any moves with ray whitney or teemu, is glen sather contacting any other GM's besides columbus'? And othis headline is called Rangers trade rumor tracker, does that mean its gonna keep updating with new and recent info? I dont know any good websites or links that update you with latest news and im so interested in whats going on but have no way of hearing about it. I know your respected and connected with all that so please let me know, either on here or at my email: knicksjz@aol.com Thankyou so much and GO RANGERS

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