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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
I don’t recall the Flames doing this. What’s the story?
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Originally Posted by devo22
probably thought of Taro Tsujimoto, but that were the Sabres, not the Flames.
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The story is that in the 1975 draft, Cliff Fletcher intended to take Kent Nilsson with a late pick. But Swedes were hardly scouted in those days, and he somehow got the name mixed up with another player. In the 12th round (!) he drafted ‘Torbjorn Nilsson’. Every hockey club in Sweden, it's been said, went frantically searching for any player with that name, to see if they could get the transfer fee.
Needless to say, no ‘Torbjorn Nilsson’ was ever found, and the following year Fletcher drafted Kent Nilsson in the 4th.