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Yutaka Fukufuji
is the first Japanese citizen to be drafted as a goaltender (and the third overall) by the National Hockey League. The first, Taro Tsujimoto, was a name "plucked out of the Buffalo telephone book" as a joke in 1974 by Buffalo Sabres GM Punch ImlachThe second, Hiroyuki Miura, was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in 1992, but never played a game.
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