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 [email protected].
The Case for Boarding the Hawks Bandwagon
Pension Plan Puppets' Chemmy has the details on why turn-coating for the Habs for the sake of returning the Cup to Canada is staggeringly...
Bits & Pieces: Nonis, Cervenka
Dave Nonis on his new two-year contract extension with Toronto:
"I'm very lucky. I have more to say about our team than some GMs do,"...
Revisiting the Kaberle Situation
It's Leafs Nation's tired but pivotal debate that dates back to the trade deadline of 2008: Should the Leafs move Tomas Kaberle?
It seems the...
No Loss Un-Nonis’ed
The news that the Tampa Bay Lightning have Dave Nonis at the top of their shortlist for general manager candidates was perhaps an instance...
HF ranks Leafs sixth in Organization Ratings
Strengths: Prior to the start of this season, the Leafs prospect list was a list full of question marks. But it has become clear...
Leafs Crack Top 10 in HF’s Organization Rankings
While Hockey's Future has yet to release their top 10 organizational prospect rankings, the highly-respected source for prospect information has released their 11-20 and...
Closing Thoughts
While most Leafs fans are content to sweep the 2009-10 season aside and look ahead to greener pastures, we're nevertheless forced to look on...
MLHS Playoff Hockey Pool
From Komi:
"Final chance to get in on the MLHS Playoff Hockey Pool!
Go to: http://fantasy.sportsnet.ca/sportsnet/hkplayoff10
It—s free and there are great prizes on the line including a 52³...
Hug it Out, says Burke
An active voice in the betterment of the sport of hockey, Brian Burke has three rule change proposals according to Darren Dreger. And I...
Pre-Game: Phil Kessel vs. Tuukka Rask
Phil Kessel has but one point in five games against his former side while recurrent Leafs nightmare Tuukka Rask, league leader in goals against...
How Good is Gunnarsson?
Unrelated Update: New signing Brayden Irwin to play tomorrow night against Atlanta (link).
#36 in Blue and White is proving to be everything his number-sake...
Pre-Game: Rangers at Leafs
Pride, youthful enthusiasm, new contracts and job opportunities for next season continue to provide more than enough hop in the Leaf step as they...
Leafs in the hunt for “Norwegian Hobbit”
After tonight's snoozer, let's move on to a bigger and better subject.
Some of you may have watched a surprising Norway side battle Switzerland to...
D-Day Wrap Up
Final Deadline Trades:
Alexei Ponikarovsky to Pittsburgh for Luca Caputi and Martin Skoula
Martin Skoula to New Jersey for a fifth round draft selection.
Lee Stempniak...
Burke on new acquistions
Prospect defenceman Keith Aulie:
"Aulie is a 6'6 defenceman playing for Abbotsford of the AHL. Our plans for Keith are for him to stay at...
The Poni Debate
On the heels of Saturday night's rumour from the Hockey Night in Canada Hot Stove panel that the dealing of pending free agents Matt...
Post-Game: Penalty Kill or Suicide?
Drop the penalty kill from the equation and the Leafs win this one 2-0; there's something, right?
Indeed, the storylines in Leafland will center...
GFWE Game #16 Predictions
You know the score: Predict the result and first scorer for tonight's divisional match-up in Buffalo, be sure it's right to win a ticket,...
The Blame Game
Submit your GFWE predictions here.
It—s no secret that the Leafs' biggest disappointment amid a conference-second-worst 15-20-9 first half of the schedule is a total...
MLHS Forums (Re) Launched
Some of you may have observed the emergence of a Forum link on our menu bar above; well, it's finally of some use.
After some...
Recent MLHS articles
Game Review: Third-period push falls short against Utah after another incomplete...
The Maple Leafs made a game of it with a big third-period push, but two largely underwhelming periods and a decisive special-teams deficit left...
