Overview

• The tribute night coincides with Bowen’s final season and recognizes a four-decade tenure that helped define the sound of Leafs hockey.
• The opponent mirrors his Oct. 6, 1982 debut, with Chicago returning as the symbolic bookend to his first broadcast.
• Bowen, 74, announced in June that he will retire after the 2025–26 campaign, closing a run that began in the early 1980s.
• He has called more than 3,700 games, is expected to reach 3,800 in January 2026, and received the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2018.
• GM Brad Treliving and longtime partner Jim Ralph lauded his impact and signature “Holy Mackinaw,” as Bowen thanked fans and looked ahead to his farewell season.