Joe Bowen signs off legendary Maple Leafs broadcasting career – sportingnews.com
Joe Bowen signs off legendary Maple Leafs broadcasting career sportingnews.com

Joe Bowen signs off legendary Maple Leafs broadcasting career sportingnews.com

Legendary Toronto Maple Leafs radio broadcaster Joe Bowen announced last June that this NHL season would be his final one behind the mic. Bowen has been the radio voice of the Maple Leafs for 44 years. Monday night brought Bowen’s final home radio broadcast in Toronto, and it was an emotional evening for everyone at…

Sportsnet and TSN spent five years keeping Joe Bowen in a Toronto studio while the Maple Leafs played road games, and on Monday, Bowen said it was one of the reasons he’s walking away. “For the last 5 years we’ve had to (broadcast) road games off TV monitors,” Bowen said. “That’s not what I signed…

Joe Bowen has spent more than four decades doing play-by-play for the thousands of Maple Leafs games he’s covered, and he’s just a handful of contests away from a well-earned retirement. However, it sounds like there’s a chance he would have stuck around for longer if the team hadn’t decided to cheap out when it […] The post Maple Leafs Radio Broadcaster Calls Out Team Over Stingy Move That Influenced Decision To Retire After 44 Seasons appeared first on BroBible.
