Since the late 90's I've spent a week at the beach with my cousins every summer. One of the cousins had a PS2, so he would bring it and we would play it late at night, otherwise the aunts/uncles would get upset "You could be doing this in Bayonne, New Jersey. You're at the beach, go enjoy the ocean!". We had Tony Hawk (the original. not those smut sequels), Crash Bandicoot, every game in the Cabela's Hunting series, Medal of Honor, and the best game of all time: NHL Hitz: 20-03. Each year we would make a custom franchise. Each cousin would get a roster player, outfitted with a custom body and head (lizard, totem, pig, baby, etc.). We would play 3 players on the team, all locked in (no player changing), and the most productive player would get to stay in the next period and the other 2 would switch out, or if you lost a fight, you were done for the night, just like the actual Hitz gameplay. After a week of staying up until 3 wolfing beers and pushing the Thrashers through the glass, we ended up with a maxed out team.
The following years we would check our progress against previous teams by scrimmaging the titanic teams of years past. As we grew and improved, our playstyles evolved, and one player from the oldest team slowly grew in value. His name was Julio Tokolosh. He was the only player beneath 6'2" (at a minimum 5'4") and beneath 200 lbs (146 lbs). A cows head and a speedster play style, Julio was the only player whose stats focused on speed and finesse and less on being able to beat Chris Pronger in a fistfight.
When creating in the SHL, I wanted my player to embody the Julio Tokolosh play style. When prompted to choose a render, I filled out Dion Phaneuf, as he was the most cow-like in appearance (maybe Matt Cooke was closer, but I didn't want him on my page). A few weeks later after seeing that the render's didn't really matter, I formally switched to the cow.
The Hitz teams were stocked with names like Mr. Ass, Gunther, Old Gregg, Haywood Jablomi, Hugh Janus, etc. Tokolosh was named for the Zulu myth and had the name Julio randomly assigned. I believe it was because of the player's impish stature that the name came up.
When I think of my favorite hockey players from the early 2000's Tokolosh immediately pops into my mind alongside Roenick, Messier, and Lemioux because that was my first exposure to the sport of hockey.