George Armstrong (ice hockey)

George Edward Chief Armstrong is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who playedseasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played 1,187 NHL games between 1950 and 1971, all with Toronto and a franchise record, and was the teams Captain forseasons. Armstrong was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and played in seven NHL AllStar Games. He scored the final goal of the NHLs Original Six era as Toronto won the 1967 Stanley Cup.

Armstrong was born in 1930 in Skead, Ontario, to a Scottish Canadian father and part Ojibway mother. He grew up in Falconbridge, Ontario where his father was a nickel miner. Sport was an important part of Armstrongs family as his father played soccer and his mother was a canoeist. The younger Armstrong developed a passion for hockey but was a poor skater, which his father believed was a consequence of a case of spinal meningitis George suffered at the age of six.

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