Joe Bowen (Leafs Radio Broadcaster) Becomes Irate About How Quiet Leafs Fans Are With A Few Minutes Left Of G3

[Adrianopolous]

I happened to hear this on the drive back from work. Will try to find audio:

https://x.com/bubbachch/status/1783319159775912144?s=46

https://x.com/swinksnz/status/1783313125212885147?s=46

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[WarriorofTime]

The clientele too rich for crowd noise.

 

[Coach Parker]

As long as the team charges prices that forces a lot of fans out of the lower bowl you're going to hear this complaint.

I'd love for my diehard Leafs fans to get a chance at a regular season game, let alone a playoff game. What was it, $1000+ / ticket down below?

Love Joe, but don't call out the fans for not stepping up.

 

[Hunter368]

The crowd was quite, normally Leafs fans are much better then that.

 

[Commander Clueless]

We (Leaf fans) have seen this one before.

It's less exciting when you know how it ends.

 

[TD Charlie]

Crowd was good when they had something to cheer about. It’s not necessarily a Toronto thing. Happens all over. Maybe they’re a little more reactionary than other crowds, but definitely not the only crowd to ever get down when their team collapses

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Extremely quiet crowd for this game. Shockingly so. From opening puck drop, little energy.

 

[pcruz]

As long as the team charges prices that forces a lot of fans out of the lower bowl you're going to hear this complaint.

I'd love for my diehard Leafs fans to get a chance at a regular season game, let alone a playoff game. What was it, $1000+ / ticket down below?

Love Joe, but don't call out the fans for not stepping up.

They should gift the whole arena for a playoff series or 2.


It would drag the NHL's Hockey Related Revenue down so much Phoenix/Arizona/Utah/whatever their name is now fold due to lack of funding by Toronto.

I wonder how many playoff Leafs home games would generate the same revenue that Mullet Arena generated this past year, or whatever the arena in Sunrise is called, or a few others in the league.

I'd put the over/under at 2.5 home games in the playoffs generating as much revenue as 41 home games for Arizona and/or Florida this past year.

 

[WarriorofTime]

They should gift the whole arena for a playoff series or 2.


It would drag the NHL's Hockey Related Revenue down so much Phoenix/Arizona/Utah/whatever their name is now fold due to lack of funding by Toronto.

I wonder how many playoff Leafs home games would generate the same revenue that Mullet Arena generated this past year, or whatever the arena in Sunrise is called, or a few others in the league.

I'd put the over/under at 2.5 home games in the playoffs generating as much revenue as 41 home games for Arizona and/or Florida this past year.

Glad you have so much pride in helping rich people get richer.

 

[pcruz]

Glad you have so much pride in helping rich people get richer.

What?

What pride?

Who are the rich people?

How do these rich people get richer by the team not charging for seats?

 

[ijuka]

Sound loud to me in the highlights I watched, cheering all the time. Oh right they're the laugh tracks, I mean cheer tracks.

By the way, they're really cringe and completely ruin the experience. NHL somehow managed to ruin even highlights.

 

[Rpenny]

Pretty funny

 

[BB79]

Extremely quiet crowd for this game. Shockingly so. From opening puck drop, little energy.

I had commented that in the GDT around the end of the 2nd period. It seemed really quiet for a tie game.

 

[WarriorofTime]

What?

What pride?

Who are the rich people?

How do these rich people get richer by the team not charging for seats?

You went on a big tangent about a team that was sold and relocated.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Why bother, they gonna add the fake crowd noises to the highlight anyway.

 

[TMLegend]

We're blaming the fans for the Leafs losing in the playoffs now? Seems on brand for this organization. Anything to distract from the players on the ice come playoff time.(Looking at you Marner)

 

[Canadienna]

 

[TMLegend]

You're right. They should be clearly be cheering after the Leafs took a penalty with a minute to go effectively ending the game. Damn those Leaf fans.

 

[pcruz]

You went on a big tangent about a team that was sold and relocated.

I wrote like 25 words.

If that is a "big tangent", then I don't know how to respond to you.

Let me give it a shot:


Toronto goalie bad.
Toronto power play bad.
Refs bad.
Boston goalie good.

 

[WarriorofTime]

I wrote like 25 words.

If that is a "big tangent", then I don't know how to respond to you.

Let me give it a shot:


Toronto goalie bad.
Toronto power play bad.
Refs bad.
Boston goalie good.

You're getting kind of defensive about this.

 

[Gabriel426]

It was pretty pathetic when you see there were more empty seats on the lower level than fans at the start of 2nd and 3rd.
It happened with the Raptors in Game 5 of the Finals at the start of the 2nd half, a game where they could win the Championship.
Having said that, they were losing 3-2 and just got a penalty. Should they cheered?

 

[BB79]

I found it!

 

[pcruz]

You're getting kind of defensive about this.

Who are you, and why are you responding to me?

You obviously need to constrict the amount of information entering your system based on previous comments, so why waste the bandwidth responding to me?

 

[12ozPapa]

They should gift the whole arena for a playoff series or 2.


It would drag the NHL's Hockey Related Revenue down so much Phoenix/Arizona/Utah/whatever their name is now fold due to lack of funding by Toronto.

I wonder how many playoff Leafs home games would generate the same revenue that Mullet Arena generated this past year, or whatever the arena in Sunrise is called, or a few others in the league.

I'd put the over/under at 2.5 home games in the playoffs generating as much revenue as 41 home games for Arizona and/or Florida this past year.

I’d say maybe worry about your team winning a round against the Bruins first.

 

[Coach Parker]

They should gift the whole arena for a playoff series or 2.


It would drag the NHL's Hockey Related Revenue down so much Phoenix/Arizona/Utah/whatever their name is now fold due to lack of funding by Toronto.

I wonder how many playoff Leafs home games would generate the same revenue that Mullet Arena generated this past year, or whatever the arena in Sunrise is called, or a few others in the league.

I'd put the over/under at 2.5 home games in the playoffs generating as much revenue as 41 home games for Arizona and/or Florida this past year.

Leafs fund those teams and more. I'd also bet Saturday nights' game will have higher ratings than the Finals rematch between FLA and VGS.

I asked my 71 year old father if he wanted to go to a Leafs game (he's a huge fan and loves the Leafs, watching them and the Jays every day) and when he saw the ticket prices he said, 'naw, go to Hawaii instead with that kind of money.'

You can actually do a roundtrip flight to Hawaii for two from Thursday - Tuesday cheaper than the cheapest pair of lower bowl tickets for Saturday night.

Now take the money you'll spend on dinner and drinks and put that towards the AirBnb lol.

They should gift the whole arena for a playoff series or 2.


It would drag the NHL's Hockey Related Revenue down so much Phoenix/Arizona/Utah/whatever their name is now fold due to lack of funding by Toronto.

I wonder how many playoff Leafs home games would generate the same revenue that Mullet Arena generated this past year, or whatever the arena in Sunrise is called, or a few others in the league.

I'd put the over/under at 2.5 home games in the playoffs generating as much revenue as 41 home games for Arizona and/or Florida this past year.

OR for one game, take the fans in the lower bowl and put them out in Maple Leaf Square and then tell the Maple Leaf square crowd to populate the lower bowl. Chaos would ensue.