Doug Lynch

Doug Lynch
Date of birth	April 4th 1983
place of birth	North Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	defender
number	# 44
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 2nd lap, 43rd position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1998-2002	Red Deer Rebels
2002-2003	Spokane Chiefs
2003-2004	Toronto Roadrunners
2004-2005	Edmonton Roadrunners
2005-2007	Peoria Rivermen
2007-2008	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2008-2009	Vienna Capitals
2009–2012	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2012	Frölunda HC
2013	EC Red Bull Salzburg

Douglas Lynch (born April 4, 1983 in North Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian ice hockey league.

Career

Doug Lynch began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League , in which he was active from 1998 to 2003 for the Red Deer Rebels and Spokane Chiefs . With the Red Deer Rebels, the defender won the Ed Chynoweth Cup in the 2000/01 season and then the Memorial Cup , for which he and his team had qualified as WHL champions. In the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2001 he was selected in the second round as the 43rd player of the Edmonton Oilers . In his time in the Oilers franchise , however, he only made two appearances in the National Hockey League in the 2003/04 season. The left-handed shooter spent the remaining second in their farm team , the Toronto Roadrunners , and then their successor team, the Edmonton Roadrunners , from the American Hockey League .

On August 2, 2005 Lynch was given to the St. Louis Blues together with Eric Brewer and Jeff Woywitka in exchange for Chris Pronger . After he was on the ice in the following two seasons only for their farm teams, the Peoria Rivermen from the AHL and the Alaska Aces from the ECHL , he signed a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey team for the 2007/08 season League , with which he immediately won the national championship . After a season with their league rivals Vienna Capitals , the Canadian returned to Salzburg for the 2009/10 season.

Achievements and Awards

2001 CHL Top Prospects Game 2001 President's Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels 2001 Memorial Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels 2004 AHL All-Star Classic 2004 AHL All-Rookie Team 2006 Kelly Cup win with the Alaska Aces

2008 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg 2010 IIHF Continental Cup win with the EC Red Bull Salzburg 2010 Best Defender of the IIHF Continental Cup Final Tournament 2010 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg 2011 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg 2011 European Trophy win with the EC Red Bull Salzburg

International

• 2000 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	2	0	0	0	0
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
EBEL main round	2	109	23	41	64	149
EBEL playoffs	1	15th	3	5	8th	14th

(Status: end of the 2008/09 season)

Web links

• Doug Lynch at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Doug Lynch at eurohockey.com