Maple Leafs Hot Stove

Founded on September 3rd, 2008, Maple Leafs Hot Stove (MLHS) offers high-level and wide-ranging Leaf coverage: daily news, opinion, analysis and inside information concerning all thingsToronto Maple Leafs. With nearly 3,000,000 annual visits, Maple Leafs Hot Stove is the largest independent Toronto Maple Leafs focused website/blog and one of the largest single team sports blogs the internet. The site was founded by managing editor Alec Brownscombe, editor of the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Maple Leafs Annuals. Alex Tran, Garrett Bauman, Matt Mistele, Mislav Jantoljak, Nikhil Daljeet, Anthony Petrielli, Michael Stephens and Declan Kerin contribute their .02 as feature bloggers. Writers Garrett Bauman, Alex Tran, Nikhil Daljeet and Michael Stephens joined Brownscombe among the site’s founding fathers in 2008. In 2011, MLHS joined forces with Declan Kerin, previously ofLeafsNews.com, to create what the readers see here on MLHS.com today. Also in 2011, the site introduced writer Anthony Petrielli as a regular columnist. Petrielli has been writing the well-knownMonday Leafs Notebook for several years running. The Notebook is deeply thorough inspection of the week’s games and other goings-on in Leafland. The site has become renowned for its fervent Leafs fan community and insightful writers. Its staples include the emotionally-unbalanced Game Day Threads, its Game in 10 post-game breakdowns, weekly Leafs notebooks, and recently-introduced Maple Leaf Hangout video webshow. Its writers also conduct a summer interview series with Maple Leafs management and coaches, where MLHS has become known for asking the right questions and engaging Leaf brass in high-level hockey discourse on the topics most pressing to Leafs fans. The interviews provide great insight into how the organization is run and an insightful peek into the minds of those making the decisions in the Leaf front office. All Leafs fans (and respectful rival fans) are encouraged to join in on the discussion on our forums and acquaint themselves with the site’s many passionate fans and writers. MLHS has been cited by: The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, USA Today, Yahoo! Sports, NBC Sports, TSN, Sportsnet, Grantland, CBC and many more.