The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Joe Bowen Critical of Sportsnet For Not Showing Proper Goal Replay

**Posted by RadioActive** May 18, 2025 9:26 pm

Leaf broadcaster Joe Bowen expressed his displeasure with Sportsnet during Sunday night's Leafs' Game 7 because they repeatedly failed to show a replay of a controversial Panthers' goal he believes was offside and should not have counted. It was the third goal in the second period where Bowen and his co-analyst repeatedly called for the play to be shown again, but for some reason it wasn't.

He believes it would have shown the tally was illegitimate and could have swung some of the momentum of the game back to the other side.

The comments, somewhat ironically, came on TSN1050.

It's not often you hear a guy who essentially works for the company that owns Sportsnet be so critical of his "employer" on air. But it was that kind of night.

**Posted by mace** May 19, 2025 7:58 am

What did he have to say about the Panthers disallowed goal. The HNIC talking heads all thought it was a good goal. Bottomline the kill shot came 47 seconds after the Leaf goal which basically sucked the life out of the fans.

**Posted by RadioActive** May 19, 2025 8:11 am

He was certain that an offside call should have been made just as the goal was scored, and was complaining that for some reason, Sportsnet refused to show what happened. He believed the goal wasn't legitimate and it shouldn't have counted. But he wanted to see the replay from several angles and it never came up on screen.

Might not have made any difference in the end, but you never know what could swing momentum to the other side.

**Posted by mic'em** May 19, 2025 8:19 am

The Ballard Curse wins every time.

**Posted by The Weed** May 19, 2025 2:08 pm

IIRC, it was explained in the intermission why the play wasn't offside with replays and an example from another NHL game.

**Posted by RadioActive** May 19, 2025 2:35 pm

I think Bowen's issue was that it wasn't shown again at the moment of the goal when he and his co-host, who I think may have been Jim Tatti, were discussing what happened. Waiting until the intermission must have seemed like a very long time.

**Posted by Walter** May 19, 2025 2:59 pm

mace wrote:
What did he have to say about the Panthers disallowed goal. The HNIC talking heads all thought it was a good goal. Bottomline the kill shot came 47 seconds after the Leaf goal which basically sucked the life out of the fans.

But not until MLSE had sucked the last dollar out of the fans.

**Posted by Binson Echorec** May 19, 2025 4:26 pm

I'd be more keen to hear Bowen out if he wasn't such an obvious homer.

**Posted by RadioActive** May 19, 2025 4:56 pm

Speaking of missing important plays...

**Posted by mace** May 19, 2025 7:13 pm

RadioActive wrote:
He was certain that an offside call should have been made just as the goal was scored, and was complaining that for some reason, Sportsnet refused to show what happened. He believed the goal wasn't legitimate and it shouldn't have counted. But he wanted to see the replay from several angles and it never came up on screen.

Might not have made any difference in the end, but you never know what could swing momentum to the other side.

The Leaf coaching staff could have challenged the call. Perhaps they didn't want to risk a two minute minor penalty if the challenge was not successful.

**Posted by mace** May 19, 2025 7:19 pm

If the Leafs don't win the Stanley Cup before 2030, the team will completely disappear from the trophy. That year the band containing all the winners from 1965/66-1977/78 will be removed and put on display in the vault at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

**Posted by Dale Patterson** May 19, 2025 7:45 pm

Another team that will disappear from the Cup is the Philadelphia Flyers. They won in 1974 and 1975 but not since.

**Posted by torontostan** May 20, 2025 10:01 am

Joe thinks he's high and mighty but in reality he'd be lucky to call another season... it's a charity act keeping the radio broadcasts going

**Posted by mace** May 20, 2025 11:18 am

Someone at the Buffalo News has calculated that with their Sunday night loss, it has been 21,203 days since the Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

**Posted by Johnny B** May 20, 2025 11:27 am

Would not have made an iota of difference....Leafs stunk up their own barn on 2 consecutive nights...outscored 12-2 in games 5 and 7...they didn't show up and were thoroughly embarrassed.

**Posted by Easily Amused** May 20, 2025 11:39 am

mace wrote:
Someone at the Buffalo News has calculated that with their Sunday night loss, it has been 21,203 days since the Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

'Calculated' my ass! There's probably an app for that. 😁

In the old days, we'd have to manually count the days, although the smarter ones of us knew enough to just add 365 (or 366) for a whole year. 🤓

**Posted by torontostan** May 20, 2025 12:35 pm

Easily Amused wrote:
mace wrote:
Someone at the Buffalo News has calculated that with their Sunday night loss, it has been 21,203 days since the Leafs won the Stanley Cup.
'Calculated' my ass! There's probably an app for that. 😁

In the old days, we'd have to manually count the days, although the smarter ones of us knew enough to just add 365 (or 366) for a whole year. 🤓

Except there's been 15 leap years since the boys in blue last won the cup..... haha