The NHL Draft Pick That Never Existed - The Taro Tsujimoto Story
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2019
- The NHL Entry Draft is the yearly event on the league's calendar where teams take turns to obtain the contract rights of the world's up-and-coming hockey talent. However, there's no draft story more ridiculous than this one...
This is the story of Taro Tsujimoto: the NHL draft pick that never existed...
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When someone that does not exist get drafted and you don’t.
Still less of a bust than Yakupov
😂😂😂
That's a pretty stupid thing to say about someone who has 350 NHL games under their belt.
People are equally oblivious to Daigle's career, which spanned over 600 game and included three 20 goal and 50 point seasons.
Taro only played one NHL game less than Don Cherry...
Still more than me lol
Every year when a new EA NHL comes out the first two things I do is make my own created player and Tsujimoto
he was on the cover of NHL 75 for the magnavox odyssey
Taro Tsujimoto doesn't exist and yet he had a better chance at making the NHL than me
How so?
I'd say the odds were and are firmly in your favour.
There have been non professionals who have suited up for NHL exhibition games for various reasons. I recall a Minnesota Wild fan won some kind of competition or something some years ago, and was allowed to be part of the team for the day and played one shift. That could have been you. Taro? That could never have happened even in theory.
Those 9 dislikes believed that tsujimoto was real
I wish someone who actually had this name came forward to try and claim a spot at camp. That would’ve been the ultimate twist to the story
Taro Tsujimoto was the John Cena of the NHL.
Of course it’s the sabres my team is literally a joke lmao
Not anymore, man. You guys got eichel, skinner, both rasmuses (how many teams have 2 superstar defensemen with the first name rasmus?), ullmark seems to have improved, reinhart aint bad either
Molorange Nah we played solid this year compared to recently were playoff bound next year
If sabres are a joke my team is a prank, its the PANTHERS
@@artyumm9463 brady keeper is from my reserve
Who's the bigger joke here, though: the team that purposefully drafted a non-existent player, or the league that saw a team draft a guy nobody had ever heard of, from a place no player had ever hailed from, and didn't bother to look into him at all?
I love that Tokyo Katanas t-shirt
This would be a great idea for a Be a Pro player.
Hes actually real he plays in the Canadian peewee League
I think tsujimoto moto likes you
Umm my guy, that's a picture Rick Janneret, one of the best announcers ever, Not Rick wieland. 2:50
Ah...yeah...you're right...
DAMMIT!
Odd Man Rush The effort was there, good video😂
MRE Obax that guy can't hold Jack Edwards jockstrap
Lance Milliken RJ is way better than Edwards, who is the most one sided commentator in the league
MRE Obax such bullshit they are literally the same but Edwards is a bruins homer so he must be worse than any other homer
Imlach last name is pronounced Imlack FYI.
NOW YOU TELL ME!
I wonder if Punch Imlach was any relation to former Scottish international footballer Stewart Imlach, the father of noted sports journalist Gary Imlach - still the best presenter on NFL that British TV has ever seen.
OMR Could you do a video on the WHA? It’s history, Hull and Howe and folding etc
That sounds like a lot of work though...
I'll look into it bud!
Odd Man Rush thanks man :) #NoPressure ;)
The fact that you are from the UK and talk about hockey is fucking amazing.
I am from Buffalo and remember that day! The “Taro says” signs were classic!!!
As a Sabres fan this is awesome to see. Thank you. The franchise should bring him back as an icon next to Eichel.
So far Taro has become an amazing player. If only he really existed for buffalo to win with. If u don't know what I'm talking about, then u are no odd man rush fan.
Buffalo, win?
You're a comedian!
Photo is not Paul Weiland but Ric Jeanneret Sabres play by play announcer
So many good stories in the NHL, could be a whole new series 😉... just saying
Anyway, great Vid eh👌🇨🇦🍻
The Ottawa Roughriders of the CFL once drafted a dead player without realizing it in 1994
Damm that sucks
Looks like Johnny Carson sitting next to Imlach. :)
Bout time u did this
New Era actually produced a fitted to celebrate the anniversary of this a while back. Tokyo Katanas fitted. One of the most sought after hats for Buffalo sports fans. And the one that slipped away for me :( I'll get one eventually.
Not too long before the NHL had its first commissioner in Gary Bettman, the league's last president, and the shortest tenured, tries to pull a fast one. Gil Stein, who was legal counsel to the Philadelphia Flyers prior to this, tried to manipulate the voting process for the Hockey Hall of Fame in order to get himself inducted. He almost got away with it too.
Should have just drafted a random person, not a fake person. A real person with 0 experience would be funnier than a fake person.
A real person with a hilariously fake sounding name. That way when they stop and go "ok what the fuck im lookin this up" it turns out theyre real. Welcome to Buffalo, Sookin Tiddes
You dare question our lord and savior Taro Tsujimoto
This was a product of the times.
Drafting a beer leaguer in their 40s would be funnier now than back then. You'd have to produce a team that the player plays for, so a random person off the streets wouldn't do, otherwise it's ''oh, he doesn't play'', which would just make it stupid.
There are still silly picks in this day and age. I recall a junior league drafting a female goaltender with family ties to the leadership group. Almost as much of a hoax as this, because while the player could in theory suit up and play, it would never be because of their on ice skill.
When I grow up I want to be like Tara Tsujimoto ...unexistent
Great video, thanks for sharing #LoveDaFilthyFrank
Hopefully the Buffalo Sabres draft 16 year old Aito Iguchi.
The Japanese teen who was trained by CZcamsr Label Barber
Hes not good
@@TheWillStrikeOfficial well he's still only 16 and remember Taro Tsujimoto was also a late round pick
Taro has a better chance at playing in the NHL than Aito Iguchi :p
Dam Son It's a joke, not a dick. Still, he's playing in Japan, not NA, so I doubt he'll be drafted in two years. And no shit, I have a vag.
I'd live to see Aito play but his chances are about less than 1%
CinnamonSushi Yeah, I agree. I'd love to see it happen. Here's to hoping.
Brooke - Why though ? He seems good by the videos im seeing ?
Combo2 Heell because he's playing in a very low-tier league at an already junior-eligible age.
I remember watching some sort of documentary about this on sportsnet 5 or 6 years ago.
im gonna do a tsujimoto be a pro now
We Need Taro😂😂😂😂
And I’m watching the night before April Fools day
Jesus I should never again play your videos on full volume I can't hear anymore haha
That's Jeanneret. Sabres' play by play commentator at @2:50
You are correct
It would funny if he traded him
0:19 we took makar ahead of pettey?
Yayyyyyyyyyy
Ik makar hasn't played a second in the NHL but it's hard not to imagine having pettey on the same team with our top line. Our attack is lethal.
Taking what turned into the best defenseman in the league was a pretty good pick, plus stanley cup champion now. Funny how time works
I just noticed the font the the titles is the pbb font
When me and the boys get bored in class
All time great
and people say the sabres never contributed anything to the NHL smh
This has gotta be why the sabres seem to be cursed.
Imagine or whatever happened to Video on this all it would be is he never existed 😂
The Sabres were and are fools. Stefan Persson was drafted three rounds later in the 14th round by the Islanders and played nine years and won four Stanley Cups.
Wow
I feel bad for the poor Asian kid on the hockey card. He gets HIS photo taken and made into a real NHL card and can't even show it off to his friends cause it's got some other name on it without so much as even an asterisk and a small line of print saying who he actually is.
Isn't Punch Imlach's name pronounced Imlack, rather than Imlatch?
My grand father owned the WHA jets but he sold them to the NHL by the time this occured
Actually?
Everyone gangsta till Jah gets drafted
Its funny because taro tsujimoto sounds like more of a name than punch imlach
This dudes a god damn legend he would’ve been better then Gretzky is he played
You were reading directly of the wiki about him at some points change up the words I love your vids but that was kind of ridiculous
This is something I've never read in the NHL Official History, they kept that quiet. This reminds me of the tale of Ali Dia, who famously got a place on the Southampton first team on the fraudulent basis that he was a distant cousin of George Weah. This fabrication sufficiently hoodwinked then manager Graeme Souness enough to put him on as a sub in a Premier League game, only to pull him off 10 or so minutes later - maybe less, I wouldn't be too surprised - because he was that crap.
More slapshot
If this had happened today, it would an example of a racist controversy and especially in the world of online media.
Whatever to happened to Yurie Dudachec
Top ten nae naes
I love this story our Sabres have a weird history and I love it
Lol
9:10 scandinavian players? I rhink only swedish players out of scandinavia by then.
Why is this a prank? You have a bunch of picks to improve your team and you choose a non-existant player - how is that a joke on anybody but yourself? Or was it amusing that 1974 NHL didn't have knowledge of every single person in the world being draft-eligible? Yeah, shame on them.
It's like someone asking you where you went on summer vacation and you answer, "to Italy" and people go "ok, good for you" and you thinking you "pranked" them because you chose to not go on a trip at all.
Buffalo pranks seem on par with their hockey management tbh.
Yeah but it was really funny so it was totally worth it
No facecam aw I wanted to see your beautiful face
Imagine being picked after a fake player
About 100% of the information here is directly from Wikipedia. That's not a problem per se, but much of it is a direct copy. Far more problematic is that early in the video it is made to sound like Imlach made this up on the spot during the draft, which is obviously not the case at all.
The modern map seen at 8:56 is out of place for a reference to Europeans drafted in the early to mid '70s.
I'm not impressed.
This was an ignorant move by the organization. This wasn't even their last pick. Very unprofessional.
100th like.
It's pronounce New-Clee-Her ( Nuclear ), not Nu-Ku-Lar
The greatest coach the leafs ever has so get his name right .Peace I am out.