Budd Lynch

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Budd Lynch is the Detroit Red Wings' public address announcer at Joe Louis Arena, a position he has held since the 1975-76 NHL season. In 1949, Lynch was with the Windsor Spitfires when Jack Adams asked him to do radio play-by-play for the Red Wings.

A native of Windsor, Ontario, Budd Lynch joined the Essex Scottish Regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II; he lost his arm during combat.

Returning home to broadcast, he joined the Red Wings, and the team won the Stanley Cup in his first season. In fact, the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in four of his first five years. His style as public address announcer is to "simply relaying information to the crowd, not to act as a cheerleader." He often regards Gordie Howe as the greatest player he has seen.

Budd Lynch was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985 as a "media honouree" and winner of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award.