Dave Strader wanted to do this earlier this season but cancer has its own schedule. The TV/radio play-by-play man of the Dallas Stars, however, will be returning on Saturday night for the first time since he was diagnosed with cancer last year.
“This will be as good as any treatment I’ve received,” Strader, 61, told me this week as he prepares to return to work for the Stars’ home game on Saturday night against the Tampa Bay Lightning. “I was waiting for a couple of things to come together - No. 1 that I would feel well enough to work and it would fit into a stretch of games when the team was at home.