The Toronto Maple Leafs lost a legend with the passing of long-time captain George Armstrong. “George is part of the very fabric of the Toronto Maple Leaf organization and will be deeply missed,” team president Brendan Shanahan said in a statement. Baun said Armstrong had an innate sense of how to play with everyone on the ice. I was a big body-checker, and I could do that because my forwards (Armstrong included) let me do that. “There was an overnight snowstorm in Boston, and George got up in the middle of the night to open the hotel room window … Johnny woke up looking like a snow drift.”Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...Armstrong lived in Leaside, where he and his wife Betty raised four children: Brian, Betty-Ann, Fred and Lorne.

Source: thestar January 24, 2021 18:46 UTC