Saw this over at HF Boards, thought I'd share it here because it's so awesome:
Tsujimoto, or at least his legend, was born during the 1974 NHL Draft when the Sabres then-GM Punch Imlach’s called out his name during the 11th round. As the story goes, Imlach had grown so frustrated with the methodical pace of the draft’s secretive phone-call format that he dreamed up Tsujimoto as a way to poke fun at the proceedings.
The name was fake. The position (center) was fake. Tsujimoto’s Japanese Hockey League team – the Tokyo Katanas – was fake. The history-making Score Rookie Card, however, is absolutely real.
“The creative team was looking to come up with something special, something really unique, for this program,” said Al Muir, Panini’s Hockey Brand Manager. “The legend of Tsujimoto is one of those great hockey stories that has been perpetuated not just in Buffalo, but around the game. It’s one that gets told to this day in dressing rooms and on bar stools, and that’s what made him a natural for this project.”
http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/2011 ... okie-card/
I love it!!
