Back to the New York Rangers Newsfeed

Cancer can’t stop announcer from doing what he loves

Related Topics: Cancer

Sports

Any game spent in the booth is sublime right now for Dave Strader. But one spent in this booth perhaps means just a little bit more.

Strader’s fight with bile duct cancer has been well documented, especially since he has been feeling well enough to call a handful of postseason games for NBC Sports. After calling the three Washington games of the Capitals-Maple Leafs series, Strader will do play-by-play for Games 3 and 4 of the Rangers-Senators Eastern Conference semifinal.

“Getting to do two games at the Garden is always extra special to me,” Strader, who has lived upstate in Glens Falls almost his entire life, told The Post this week.