Aeros GM Tom Lynn to answer questions on aeros.com
Published on May 28, 2004 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Houston Aeros News Release
Houston Aeros general manager Tom Lynn will participate in a www.aeros.com Q & A session next week. Anyone who would like to ask a question to Lynn can email questions to qanda@aeros.com. The deadline for questions is 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2. Answers will be posted Friday, June 4. Please include name and town. Not all questions will be able to be answered.
Lynn just completed his fourth year with the Minnesota Wild and second as assistant general manager/hockey operations. He was named director of hockey administration and legal affairs on April 24, 2000, and held the position until being promoted to his current role on September 4, 2002. As assistant general manager/hockey operations, his responsibilities include serving as the Aeros' GM, assisting Wild president/general manager Doug Risebrough in the preparation and negotiation of player contracts and acting as the team's liaison with the National Hockey League. Lynn also oversees the day-to-day work of the hockey operations department, and serves as counsel to the department. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor of law at the St. Thomas University Law School in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Prior to joining the Wild, Lynn, 36 (3/20/68), worked as an attorney in New York for five years at the law firms of Proskauer Rose LLP and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. During that time, he had extensive interaction with the business of sport and the NHL practicing management-side sports law representing both leagues and teams.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Lynn played hockey for Yale University from 1986 to 1988 before transferring to LeMoyne College, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Philosophy in 1991. He went on to receive his law degree from Cornell Law School in 1995.
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