“I grew up being a Leaf fan,” Bowen said in a 2016 interview with The Athletic. (According to a report in The Canadian Press in April, Rogers reported a profit of $511 million in its most recent quarter.) Waves of indignant listeners ultimately forced the station to send them back on the road.Ī 2015 report in The Globe and Mail suggested it would cost the radio stations $130,000 to put Bowen and Ralph on the road for the season. They were going to call road games off television. The idea, it was said, was to make the charter flight an extension of the dressing room.Īt first, Bowen and Ralph were grounded. That changed during the 2015-16 season, when Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello pulled them from the seating plan. In separate - but identical - email statements to The Athletic earlier this month, Sportsnet and TSN said: “Our radio broadcast plans for the playoffs will be consistent with the regular season, with games being called remotely through Round 1.”įor a long time, the Toronto radio crew traveled with the team on its charter. In exchange, he said, they would be able to provide content across multiple shows. Millman suggested it might have cost the station, which shares the rights with rival TSN 1050, $10,000 to send the two voices on the road for the first-round series. For a few fleeting moments, they had a soccer game on the screens in their studio, rather than the hockey game. Once, during a game last season, they briefly only had access to a camera that showed the action from high above the ice, making it impossible to see who was actually making the plays they were supposed to be describing.Īt least once, they have described the feed disappearing entirely. Sometimes, the local feed can cut out, or reduce the number of camera angles available to Bowen and Ralph. The stations can splice in ambient noise from the rink, making it sound as though Bowen and Ralph are in the building, even if they have a clearer view of Lake Ontario for a game in Colorado. It is almost impossible for a listener to know where the play-by-play voice is working. Bowen had the same perspective as anyone who happened to be watching “Hockey Night in Canada,” with the notable exception that he also had to narrate the play in real-time. Rielly, who was in the area but did not score, was the focus of a camera that beamed images back to the viewing audience in Canada.
“They score! They score! Holy Mackinaw, they score! Morgan Rielly! Mo, Mo, Mo Rielly!”Īs called on Maple Leafs radio: /klDSGY13us “Tavares coming out, sends it in on goal,” he said on the air. Having endured the intervening years of loss and heartbreak on the ice, Bowen finally had another chance to call a winner.
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Toronto had not won a playoff series since 2004, when Mats Sundin and Ed Belfour were still on the roster. It was a call he has been waiting to make for 19 years. ( UPDATE: Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment announced in a statement Monday that Bowen and Ralph will travel with the team for Round 2.) It is not clear if the companies will send Bowen and Ralph on the road for the second round of the playoffs. A message to TSN was not immediately returned. In an email to The Athletic on Sunday, a Sportsnet spokesperson said the network was still finalizing its broadcast plans for the second round. “By the initial celebration it appeared Morgan (Rielly) had scored.
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“When the tv shot doesn’t show the Tavares celebration until well after the fact it’s rather difficult to make the call off the TV monitor,” Bowen wrote on Twitter two hours after the final buzzer. So when the camera focused on Rielly in those chaotic moments of victory, Bowen was led to believe the defenceman was the overtime hero. Neither TSN nor Sportsnet have sent them on the road with the team for the playoffs, meaning the two of them call the action from television screens inside the studio. They were calling the game from a studio approximately 2,200 kilometres from the ice surface. As the Leafs swarmed the ice at Amalie Arena, in Tampa, Fla., after eliminating the Lightning from the first-round playoff series in six games, Bowen and colour voice Jim Ralph were back in Toronto.
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