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Dallas Stars Daily Links: Love for Dave Strader Clear Ahead of Hockey Fights Cancer Night

It’s Hockey Fights Cancer Night tonight at the AAC, as the Stars take on the Blue Jackets. This year, the game takes on added meaning as play-by-play announcer Dave Strader is currently battling cancer.

For the first time since the 1970s, Strader, 61, isn't calling hockey games. He was a fixture in press boxes and on national broadcasts for four decades from Detroit to Arizona to Florida to Dallas, from ESPN to NBC, before he began his battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that attacks the bile duct.

Razor, who’s taken over play-by-play duties, put it this way.