It’s not the way Joe Bowen once envisioned his exit season with the Maple Leafs would unfold. Article content

He’ll only call home games again from Scotiabank Arena, with road contests restricted to a barren studio monitor, while the team has yet to provide him a signature Stanley Cup winning script with just one spring remaining. Article content Article content

But the 74-year-old Hockey Hall of Fame play-by-play man, known for his booming vocal cords, is at quiet personal peace as his final season approaches. He’s been through a few seismic shifts in the broadcast industry in nearly half a century, that took him from radio to television and back to radio, working for multiple networks while visiting far flung cities in an ever-expanding NHL.

Since COVID-19, however, the buzz of ca

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