Maple Leafs Radio Broadcaster Calls Out Team Over Stingy Move That Influenced Decision To Retire After 44 Seasons

Maple Leafs Radio Broadcaster Calls Out Team Over Stingy Move That Influenced Decision To Retire After 44 Seasons

Maple Leafs radio broadcaster Joe Bowen 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 came to its approach to covering road games. Most hockey fans who tune into an NHL game watch t…

Joe Bowen says broadcasting road games off TV monitors factored into his retirement

Photo Credit: SportsNet on YouTubeSportsnet 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 up for.” Maple Leafs broadcaster Joe Bowen (@Bonsie1951) says another reason he’s retiring is the landscape of radi…

Broadcasting legend Joe Bowen calls out Leafs' cheapness for his retirement

Legendary Toronto Maple Leafs radio broadcaster Joe Bowen is retiring at the end of this season, ending nearly 50 years in the game.Bowen has been the voice of Leafs' broadcasts since 1982 and has called over 3,800 games during an absolutely stellar career.Last summer when Bowen made the announcement that 2025-26 would be his final season, he failed to explain why exactly he has decided to retire but he did maintain that he's not being pushed ou…