Itagaki coming off strong freshman season at Army
NHL NEWS – Color of Hockey:
Japanese American forward was named 2022-23 Atlantic Hockey Association Rookie of the Year
William Douglas (NHL.com)
Max Itagaki said he sometimes thought about his great grandfather while playing his freshman season for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Frank Takao Okada served in World War II in the Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was composed mostly of “Nisei,” second-generation Japanese Americans.
He belonged to one of the most decorated units of the war while his family was at the Minidoka War Relocation Center, in Jerome County, Idaho, where more than 13,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during the war.
