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

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.

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 calling Leafs games from road arenas, especially those

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