Hometown: Coquitlam,British Columbia
Birthday: April 4th
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Shoots: Left
Favorite NHL Team: Edmonton Oilers
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Cereal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Favorite Movies: Happy Gilmore,Dumb and Dumber,The Usual Suspects
WHL Bantam Draft: Rebels 1st Choice,7th overall in the 1998 Bantam Draft
- Lynch Traded to Spokane: Doug Lynch has been dealt to the Spokane Chiefs, it's tough to see Doug go, but I wish him all the best in Spokane.
- Doug Lynch Gets Drafted By Edmonton Oilers!: Doug has been chosen in the second round of the NHL draft, Doug was chosen 43rd overall by the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers aquired that pick from the Boston Bruins. Doug's Red Deer Rebel teammates Colby Armstrong & Jeff Woywitka were both taken by teams from Pennsylvania, Armstrong to Pittsburgh (21st overall) and Woywitka to Philidelphia (27th overall).
- Doug was named team captain of the Rebels in 2001, after Colby Armstrong stepped down.
- Doug has moved up 15 spots in the final rankings for the NHL Draft.
- Doug Lynch was the captain of Team Pacific in the Under-17 World Hockey Challenge,and his most memorable hockey moment was playing in that tournament and winning the bronze medal when Team Pacific beat the United States, in the tournament Doug got 4 goals and added 1 assist.
- Doug says that the best advice he ever recieved was, "You're only as good as the guy next to you."
Doug was a great leader on the Red Deer Rebels, and in only his second year in the Western Hockey League Doug was an assistant captain with the Rebels.
- Doug was a center for the Rebels in his rookie season until Red Deer coach Brent Sutter placed him on defence, Doug got used to playing defence, and he says he feels more comfortable every game playing defence. To read an article about this topic, click HERE.
- Doug has 2 brothers who play in the WHL, Jeff Lynch is Doug's teammate on the Spokane Cheifs and Scott Lynch plays for the Prince George Cougars.
- In his rookie season, Doug was a finalist for Scholastic Player Of The Year, and because of that, won the Rex Turple Memorial Award for the top academic Rebel. Doug was in Grade 11 and had a grade percent of 76.
- The January 2001 NHL Draft Rankings by the Central Scouting Bureau, Doug was ranked 38th out of North American's in the draft. Some other of Doug's teammates were also ranked (Colby Armstrong-15th, Jeff Woywitka-17th, and Joel Stepp-67th.)
- Doug played for Team B.C in the 1999 Canada Winter Games as an underage player-Click HERE to see the team picture of Team B.C (Doug is on the top row and look on the right side he is 3rd from the right!) Doug scored once and got an assist in the tournament (both points came against Saskatchewan in a 5-1 B.C win) as B.C won the bronze medal after going 6-1 in the tournament.
