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- Hitoshi " Mel " Wakabayashi (April 23, 1943 – July 9, 2023) was a Canadian-Japanese ice hockey player, a right-handed center, who played for the 1964 NCAA champion Michigan Wolverines hockey team.
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Hitoshi "Mel" Wakabayashi (April 23, 1943 – July 9, 2023) was a Canadian-Japanese ice hockey player, a right-handed center, who played for the 1964 NCAA champion Michigan Wolverines hockey team. He was also named Player of the Year in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 1966.
Aug 8, 2023 · Mel Wakabayashi, who has died at 80, was an athletic star from Ontario who became Japan’s top hockey player before coaching the country’s Olympic team.
Jul 13, 2023 · Olympian, All-American, NCAA champion and Chatham Sports Hall of Fame inductee Mel Wakabayashi has died at age 80. The Chatham Jr. Maroons alumnus was a hockey and baseball star at the University...
Jul 13, 2023 · The Chatham Sports Hall Of Fame and the Chatham Maroons are sharing their condolences on the passing of Mel Wakabayashi. Mel was born in Slocan City, British Columbia in 1943 but his family was moved eastward shortly after that, as were thousands of Japanese-Canadian families.
Mar 28, 2021 · Hitoshi “Mel” Wakabayashi, who played for many seasons in Japan before coaching the nation’s Olympic team in 1980, died in his sleep last Sunday at the age of 80. He was predeceased by his brother Herb, a three-time Olympian, who passed away in 2015.
Was head coach of Japanese National Hockey Team at 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid and at 3 World “B” Hockey Championships. Was head coach of Kokuda team from 1984 to 1994. 1967 – inducted into Dekers Booster Club Hall of Fame at University of Michigan.
Two brothers born in Canadian internment camps, Mel and Herb Wakabayashi, became hockey phenoms at American universities before the world’s richest man enticed them to come skate in Japan, spurring an enduring sporting legacy that still links the two nations.
