> I never knew the third guy's name, except that it wasn't Wakabayashi.
> Does anyone know where to find a BU roster that shows where Ed Wright
> was from?  Mel enrolled at Michigan in January of '63, so Wright
> would be slightly after that if he was the third guy on their
> Chatham line..

www.hockeydb.com is a great resource for this sort of research.
There are three Ed Wrights shown, of which only one (Eddie) is shown
for BU, playing only in 1968-69 and totalling 32 points in 29 games
played.

I tried looking up Chatham, with only limited success (only their
IHL team covers a substantial number of years, and that's obviously
not it because there's no Wakabayashis there.


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> > > And I believe his brother, Mel, who preceded him as one of the
> > > most popular All-Americans at Michigan, served in a coaching
> > > capacity for the Japanese National Team.  The Wakabayashi
> > > brothers and a black player formed a line in junior hockey in
> > > Chatham, Ontario which had already wrapped up the league scoring
> > > title for the season when Mel enrolled at Michigan in mid-season.
> >
> > Was that Ed Wright who played at BU?  I remember that he later coached at
> > Buffalo.