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I am currently a Senior at Queens College and an aspiring sportswriter. I'm an intern at Stan Fischler Hockey and a columnist for The Fischler Report.

In addition to my work on Bleacher Report, I also run "NYI Faceoff Circle" (link below) and have had work featured on the Islanders' official site, as well as the CBS Sports and USA Today Sports webpages.

If you ever want to talk hockey, just post a message on my profile.

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/DFriedmanTFR and find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyifaceoff360

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Tommy Salo, Zigmund Palffy, Jason Blake, John Tavares, Al Leiter, Timo Perez, Robin Ventura, Mike Piazza, Pedro Martinez, David Wright, Jason Bay, Wayne Chrebet, Vinnie Testeverde, Chad Pennington, Jim Leonhard, Keith Van Horn, Kerry Kittles, Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    New York Islanders, New York Jets, New York Mets, New Jersey Nets

  • Favorite Coaches

    Islanders: Al Arbour, Peter Laviolette, Ted Nolan. Jets: Herman Edwards, Rex Ryan. Mets: Bobby Valentine. Nets: Byron Scott, Lawrence Frank

  • All Time Sports Moment

    2002 NHL Playoffs- Eastern Quarterfinals, Islanders VS: Maple Leafs: Shawn Bate's penalty shot goal in Game 4

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    2006 NLCS: Mets VS: Cardinals, Game 7 (even though they lost)

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Wayne Gretzky- 50 goals in 39 games

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays- wasn't a drunk, and I'm an NL fan, all the way.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Unitas- pretty much invented the no-huddle offense during the championship game against the Giants, out of sheer instinct.

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan- most dominant player to have ever played the game. period.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky- Orr was amazing, but Gretz was just something else.

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger- though I'd sooner look up to Nicklaus than Tiger.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Earnhardt- great racer until his tragic death.

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big East

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  • Rob Smith posted 42 days ago

    Rob Smith

    Daniel,

    The nature of B/R allows you to overrule any edits I make. I simply don't have the time to run edits past each writer in the way that a normal editor-writer relationship works. Frankly, a lot of the writers on B/R don't respond in a timely enough manner to effectively do that. I appreciate your passion, as I don't like when editors change my stuff, either. Feel free to alter the article the way that you would like it to appear, as it's your name on the byline. If you ever want to know why I made the specific changes I did in this article (or any of your work that I end up editing), don't hesitate to ask. Typically, any changes B/R editors make are for the sake of brevity and in adherence to B/R's style guidelines. Thanks for the feedback.

    - Rob

  • Kyle Langan posted 252 days ago

    Kyle Langan

    Hey, would you be able to send your e mail to klangan@omnipossible.com? I want to get the B/R community leaders on a mailing list for a press release on behalf of Sports Media 101.

    Thanks

  • Adam Davis posted 269 days ago

    Adam Davis

    Nice to meet you as well. I'm gonna start reading through your stuff - looks interesting.

  • Matthew Stathopoulos posted 393 days ago

    Matthew Stathopoulos

    You are probably the most respectful Islanders fan I've ever seen, hats off to you man!!

  • Mark Jones posted 395 days ago

    Mark Jones

    Daniel,

    I've received the information I needed from Adam, you can disregard my previous post. Thanks.

    Mark

  • Mark Jones posted 395 days ago

    Mark Jones

    Daniel,

    This is Mark Jones, the 'Canes FC. I've discovered a bit of a problem - your latest article, "The Ideal Signing for Each NHL Team", was the exact same topic as an article I am halfway finished with. This was an article chosen off of the B/R assigments list - the only problem was, I missed the deadline, though it's worth noting I've had some interaction with Adam Hirshfield over that matter. Just wondering if you know if the identical topic is mere coincidence or of any switch in authors that was made (I'm writing because I'm a bit irrated that I wasn't notified of this, although I understand completely WHY he made the switch).

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • Mike Vee posted 418 days ago

    Mike Vee

    Hey D- Take my comments with a grain of salt towards the guy writing the nonsense. This stems from crap he wrote on a Pens article bashing 'Cyndy" and numerous other stupid feminine comments. There's a sure fire way to pick out an immature male and that is personal attacks toward any rival superstar player. Once they get into the real world and start making about 30K a year, most adults change their tune from jealousy to envy. One thing I will never do is bash ANY player living the dream that most of us wish we could do for the big paychecks. When I read crap such as what he has been writing, its ridiculous and annoying. I may not like Tavares, but that has nothing to do with respect. Hopefully you see through my retaliations and I have no idea why the comments are showing up multiple times?? Just got my tix to the games in tampa next week- Go Pens! I can't wait to see all of the games this week, should be awesome.

  • Damien Fiorello posted 443 days ago

    Damien Fiorello

    haha i know man luckily my classes are in the afternoon so that was a one time thing, and st johns lost tonight damn

  • Sahil Sachdeva posted 448 days ago

    Sahil Sachdeva

    Have you decided about blogging on my site?

  • Sahil Sachdeva posted 450 days ago

    Sahil Sachdeva

    Are you interested in blogging on my website? www.hockeybaseballtalk.webs.com

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