Alec Brownscombe
Alec Brownscombe is the founder and editor of MapleLeafsHotStove.com, where he has written daily about the Leafs since September of 2008. He's published five magazines on the team entitled "The Maple Leafs Annual" with distribution in Chapters and newsstands across the country. He also co-hosted "The Battle of the Atlantic," a weekly show on TSN1200 that covered the Leafs and the NHL in-depth. Alec is a graduate of Trent University and Algonquin College with his diploma in Journalism. In 2014, he was awarded Canada's Best Hockey Blogger honours by Molson Canadian. You can contact him at alec.brownscombe@mapleleafshotstove.com.
MLHS Morning Mashup: Burke on the Summit
The Maple Leafs' Brian Burke, the Raptors' Bryan Colangelo and the Blue Jays' Paul Beeston got together for a "Presidents Summit" interview...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Miss You, Kessel
We saw an explosion of offense in yesterday's playoff action with 24 goals scored in the four games played. By no means exploding offensively...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Not Again
With game one in the books, we've seen play tighten up and the goaltending prove the difference maker to the tune of four shutouts...
Brian Burke’s State of the Union Address
Update: Replay: Brian Burke State of the Union Address (full audio file courtesy of The Fan 590).
Video of part 1 of Burke's end of...
MLHS Morning Mashup: World Championship Leafs
Nikolai Kulemin will represent Russia, Mikhail Grabovski will lead Belarus while Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown will both play for Team USA at the...
MLHS Morning Mashup: MLHS Playoff Pool
I hate to direct traffic towards Glenn Healy's employer but there has been an MLHS Playoff Pick 'em Pool set up over at CBC...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Ending in Defeat
It was far from a satisfying send off but last night's 4-1 loss to the Habs was in some ways a microcosm of 2010-11...
Don’t Sweatt It: Frattin signs with the Leafs
Update: Claude Loiselle, Leafs' assistant GM and cap guru, tells MLHS the cap hit on Frattin's deal is $1.3 million/year, and they will indeed...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Letting Go
It wasn't the fairytale ending to the story of the young team that could.
You try to take solace and satisfaction in the promise of...
Marlies This Week: Post Mortem
Much like the parent Maple Leafs, the Marlies will look back ruefully at a bad start and a poor powerplay in assessing the damage...
MLHS Morning Mashup: All But Over
"Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"
-Murphy's Law
It's obvious now this Murphy character was a prescient Leafs fan. After the Leafs continued to do...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Dream On
The Maple Leafs fought to see another day by pulling out a gutsy 4-3 shootout win over the Boston Bruins at the TD Banknorth...
GDT: For Pride and Promise (7 p.m., TSN)
The Leafs enter their final meeting with the Boston Bruins holding a 3-2 edge in the season series and having won the clubs' last...
MLHS Morning Mashup: Final Stretch
They say if you need something done, do it yourself because the rest of the Eastern Conference is bloody useless. I'm paraphrasing, and in...
Burke on AM640
Brian Burke joined Bill Watters on AM640 this afternoon. The audio is available here. The quick summary is as follows:
On the late season run......
MLHS Morning Mashup: What’s still up for grabs?
It certainly felt like the Leafs allowed their final playoff hopes to slip with their loss to Detroit on Saturday. The Sabres won and...
Team Effect: Just how good has Reimer been?
You probably don't need the following statistical breakdown to know the answer to the above question. I'll try to keep the anointing oil on...
3/22: Marlies This Week
With the ink just dry on his new two-year contract with the Maple Leafs (he'll play on an Amateur Tryout Contract for the balance...
The Curse of Clemmensen
The rest of the league continued to conspire to ruin the playoff hopes of Leafs Nation yesterday. The New York Rangers dropped the Penguins...
GDT: Desperation Time
Update: James Reimer will get the start despite hints to the contrary. Joffrey Lupul will slide to the third line while Tyler Bozak will...
Recent MLHS articles
Game in 10: Special-teams struggles, home-ice woes continue in Maple Leafs’...
The Maple Leafs stealing home-ice advantage was short-lived.
Despite finally scoring first against Boston, the Leafs' special-teams struggles are starting to prove too difficult to...
