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Love or hate him, Prime Time Sport’s Bob McCown knows how to press Burke’s buttons. The Leafs GM was at his acerbic, candid best in a Fan590 interview earlier this evening, participating in some playful banter with McCown and co-host Damien Cox while tackling a number of Leaf topics in a fascinating interview. Burke touches on the status of some of his front office staff, trade talks, the Sports Illustrated players poll that voted Phaneuf the league’s most overrated player for the second season running, his “rats” comment, Ovechkin/Kessel and the All Star Game, and much more. As always, Burke makes the half hour race by:

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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.