Dave Starman has had a long, multifaceted life in hockey, one that he said makes him feel like “the luckiest guy on the planet.”

But his latest shift change might be his coolest yet.

“Like every other kid my age, I grew up listening to Marv [Albert] and Sal [Messina] on the radio doing the Rangers,” Starman said. “The thought of having grown up listening to Sal and now I am Sal is just amazing.”

Like Messina, Starman is a former goaltender. Now, like Messina before him, he is the lead radio analyst for Rangers hockey.

With Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti having retired from calling Rangers games on TV and Kenny Albert and Dave Maloney succeeding them, the Rangers needed a new radio team.

Alex Faust quickly got the play-by-play job. Starman, 57, applied for the job to join him

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