Meet Taro Tsujimoto, the Buffalo Sabres draft pick who never actually existed
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Meet Taro Tsujimoto, the Buffalo Sabres draft pick who never actually existed originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . His name comes up from time to time: Taro Tsujimoto, the most unlikely draft pick in NHL history.
The Sabres chose him in the 1974 NHL Draft, but he didn't actually exist. Tsujimoto became a meme before the word 'meme' was commonplace. Fans got his last name on jerseys.
They referenced him as an inside joke. Recently, he was suggested as the guy who should bang the drum before a Sabres playoff game. Obviously, a fictional man isn't actually able to hit a very real drum.
But that's Tsujimoto, as real for Sabres fans as if he once skated on the third line in Western New York. MORE: Zach Benson contract projection shows he's going to get paid Who is Taro Tsujimoto? Taro Tsujimoto is a fictional hockey player, but he was a real NHL Draft pick.