“Welcome to Dallas Stars hockey; I’m Dave Strader. Has it really been 283 days since I’ve said that? How long I’ve waited to be here next to you, Daryl Reaugh, and Razor, this just feels right to be here and getting ready to call a game.”
With those words, play-by-play man Dave Strader re-took his seat in the Dallas Stars broadcast booth on Saturday night. A battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare form of bile-duct cancer, has kept him away from the job since his diagnosis just after last season ended, but a break in his treatment allowed him to return to Dallas for what is scheduled to be a five-game slate of games.