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3 unusual facts about Taro Tsujimoto


Taro Tsujimoto

In the summer of 2011, trading card company Panini America added Tsujimoto to its 2010-11 Score Rookies & Traded box set.

Among the players selected after Taro were Dave Lumley, who played nine years in the NHL and won two Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, and Stefan Persson, who was selected in the 14th round by the New York Islanders and played for all four of their Cup-winning teams.

Imlach, who had already drafted several players that would go on to great success with the team (Derek Smith in the previous round and All-Stars Lee Fogolin and Danny Gare in the first two rounds) earlier in the draft, decided to have some fun at the expense of the league and Clarence Campbell, the NHL president for the last 28 years.



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