Taro Tsujimoto is an imaginary ice hockey player that was legally drafted by the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres in the 11th round of the 1974 NHL Entry Draft. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America The Buffalo Sabres are a professional Ice hockey team based in Buffalo New York. The 1974 NHL Amateur Draft was held via conference call at the NHL office in Montreal Quebec. [1][2]
The Sabres' general manager at the time, Punch Imlach, was reportedly fed up with the slow drafting process via the telephone. George "Punch" Imlach ( March 15, 1918 – December 1, 1987) was an NHL coach and general manager Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information He decided to have some fun and contacted public relations director Paul Wieland for the translation of Sabre in Japanese and a common Japanese name. Public relations (PR is the practice of managing the flow of Information between an Organization and its Publics Public relations - often referred [3] When the 11th round surfaced, Imlach chose to select star center Taro Tsujimoto of the Tokyo Katanas. [1] The NHL made the pick official, and so it was reported by all major media outlets including reputable magazine The Hockey News. The Hockey News is a North American hockey magazine published by Transcontinental. [1][2]
Imlach did not clear the air about the fake draft pick until weeks later. He admitted that he had found the name Taro Tsujimoto in a Buffalo phone book, and the team name Tokyo Katanas translated into English as Tokyo Sabres. Buffalo (ˈbʌfəloʊ is the second largest city in New York State. The NHL would eventually change the pick to an "invalid claim" for its official record-keeping purposes, but this was after Tsujimoto's name had appeared in several of NHL Guide and Record Books. [1][2] Tsujimoto is still listed among Sabres' draft picks in the Sabres media guide. A media guide is a sports-related Press kit, distributed as a book or binder and published by American sporting teams before the start of the sporting season [4]
Taro quickly became an inside joke for Sabres' fans and staffers. An in-joke (also known as an in joke or inside joke) is a Joke whose Humor is clear only to those people who are "inside" a social [3] For years after the pick, fans would chant "We Want Taro" when games at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium got one-sided. Buffalo Memorial Auditorium (also known as The Aud) was an indoor arena in downtown Buffalo New York.
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