DETROIT -- Budd Lynch, a veteran radio broadcaster who spent more than 60 years working for the Detroit Red Wings and became the teams public voice, died Tuesday. He was 95. Lynch, the hockey clubs public address announcer, died following a brief illness at a Detroit-area rehabilitation centre, the team said in a release. At 63 years, Lynch was the longest-tenured employee in team history. "Budd Lynch was a dear member of the Detroit Red Wings family and legendary icon of our community," Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch said. "Hearing Budds voice on the radio and over the public address at Joe Louis Arena was something that every Red Wings fan looked forward to and loved. His calm, friendly and distinguished voice was symbolic of who Budd was as a person." Lynch began his broadcasting career in 1936 at a Hamilton, Ontario, radio station shortly after graduating from high school. He switched stations the following year and volunteered in 1939 in the Canadian Army. Lynch served as a major in the Essex Scottish Regiment during World War II, losing his right arm and shoulder in a rocket attack following the D-Day invasion at Normandy. He worked with the British Broadcasting Co. through the end of the war and later was hired by CKLW in Windsor where he was sports director and did play-by-play of Windsor Spitfires games. Beginning in the 1949-50 National Hockey League season, Lynch began calling televised Red Wings games for WWJ in Detroit. He did play-by-play during four Stanley Cup championship campaigns that decade. Lynch became the play-by-play announcer for the Red Wings on the radio starting in 1960 and held the job for the next 15 years. He later served as the teams director of publicity and the public address announcer at "the Joe." "Budd Lynch will forever be synonymous with the Detroit Red Wings," general manager Ken Holland said. "He experienced it all in his 63 years with the organization. He had a vast knowledge of the game and the stories he could tell would have anyone who loves the sport mesmerized for hours." Lynch was honoured in 1985 by the NHL Broadcasters Association with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award at the Hockey Hall of Fame and was enshrined nine years later in the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. He was given the Ty Tyson Award for excellence in broadcasting in 2005 by the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association. Lynch is survived by his daughters, Janis, Valerie, Mary, Francey, Patricia and Lori. James Harden Jersey . -- Sporting Kansas City has waived Brazilian midfielder Julio Cesar, former second-round draft pick Cyprian Hedrick, Serbian defender Neven Markovic and midfielder Konrad Warzycha. Dwight Howard Jersey . Catch all the action live on TSN2, beginning at 8pm et/5pm pt. The Heat have not played since a home win Saturday against the Cleveland Cavaliers. 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This week, they discuss NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, the Calgary Flames, the Montreal Canadiens and Norfolk Admirals head coach Jon Coopers inability to land an NHL job. Dave Naylor, TSN: My thumb is up to NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr for his decision to include 31 players in his bargaining team, while inviting any and all who care to be part of the process to join in. Fehrs approach comes from the years in which he helped the Major League Baseball Players Association maintain its position as the strongest union in all of professional sports; one that never crumbled and always appeared to be in sync with its leadership under Fehr. Duplicating that approach will make it far more difficult for the hockey owners to employ the strategy that worked so well for them last time: divide and conquer. Steve Simmons, Sun Media: My thumb is down to the Calgary Flames for the surprising signing of defenceman Dennis Wideman. Its not that I wouldnt have traded for him or signed him. Its the five years, $25 million, no-trade clause part that I dont understand about this arrangement. Maybe they have him confused. Maybe they think hes a star. Wideman is, lets be nice, an average NHL defenceman. Hes better offensively than he is defensively. But if you watched the Washington Capitals during the Stanley Cup playoffs, he was no better than the fifth defenceman on that team and often the least dependable in his own end. You dont pay staar money and give star term for a guy on his fifth team in seven years.dddddddddddd. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is down to the Montreal Canadiens because Mathieu Darche will be eligible for free agency today. For a relative pittance, Montreal could have locked up Darche, the conscience of the team. Instead they lowballed the 35-year-old winger with an offer of a two-way deal that also included a cut from his current $700,000 at the NHL level. There are more effective fourth liners on the market but not one will treat it an as an honor to play for the Canadiens like Darche did. There is scant room for sentiment in pro hockey, but there should always be room for a man of character. Dave Hodge, TSN: With all the coaches who are hired to replace all the coaches who are fired, I have to wonder why theres not an NHL job for one Prince George, BCs Jon Cooper, and so I say thumbs down to the fact that Coopers sensational record with the Calder Cup champion Norfolk Admirals didnt vault him to the NHL. The numbers said it -- the Admirals won 70 regular season and playoff games and they lost only 21 outright. Those who watched the Tampa Bay farm team dominate the opposition saw Coopers work reflected on the ice. And to those who have followed his coaching career from its start in the U.S. junior ranks, last season was hardly a surprise. Hell get to the NHL, youd think, and he should get the next available job, youd think. And its bound to come soon. The way the NHL spits out coaches, that we know. ' ' '