After three years of writing about the New York Rangers for Blue Line Station, it’s officially time to move on.
You know that feeling you get when you love something? You know, the one that makes you absolutely crazy? Like you would do whatever it was you could to better that special something, even when it’s not the easy thing to do?
For three years, I’ve had that feeling about Blue Line Station.
I began writing for BLS freshman year of college. I had previously written online at a few other websites but I always knew that my favorite thing to write about –and honestly, my favorite thing to talk about — was the New York Rangers. When I found this site, I applied as soon as I found the application. You could say it was love at first site (I’m sorry, I had to make a pun there, sue me).
Within days, the people at the top of FanSided’s NHL Division, as well as the editor of the site at the time, decided that they would give me a chance to put my thoughts on the computer screen and share them with the world.
Within a few months of writing about four articles a month, the editor of the site left, leaving a huge hole in the site’s roster. Once again, without hesitation, being the ballsy 19-year-old that I was, I threw my hat in the ring for the editor gig. Tim Redinger, FanSided’s NHL Director at the time, made the call to let me have a crack at the position. It was going to entail a lot of editing and a lot of writing on a daily basis, but I was all for it.
There were definitely some rocky times here at the start, but over the past few years I have worked alongside two tremendous co-editors (Brandon Cohen and Nick Zararis) and we, along with an extremely talented and dedicated group of staff writers, made this place a go-to site for Rangers content.
And after all of that, today is my last day with the site.
It’s been a long journey and I have put so much blood, sweat and tears into this site. You really don’t understand how much work a site like this needs to function until you are actually in the midst of it, but it was all worth it.
It was a lot of fun and I have made so many memories and have learned so much about the industry from it. At the end of the day, though, it’s just time to move on.
I’m in my senior year of college and I am currently working five jobs, two of which are internship with companies that I have always dreamed of having the opportunity to work for; 97.3 ESPN and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms –yes, the rival Philadelphia Flyers’ AHL team.
My excitement for these two positions is through the roof and I need to make sure they get as much time and attention as I could give them. And because of that, I won’t have the time to give this site the attention it needs to continue to grow.
To any young Rangers fan that has a passion for writing and wants to develop their skills in this field, this is the best site you could ever ask for. You can apply to write for Blue Line Station by clicking here.
Don’t be scared to give it a shot because at the end of the day, you’ll have so much fun here. The community of writers who have blogged here over the past few years, they are just an incredible group of people. Truly, the best. And when it is time for you to journey on in your career, they are going to be the ones who make leaving this joint so freakin’ hard.
In life, sometimes you can love something so much that you want to do whatever is best for it going forward, even if that means letting go.
Thanks for reading these last three years and I’ll (hopefully) be around the web writing about sports for a long, long time to come.