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George Armstrong #10 Toronto Maple leafs


#10 'the Chief' died today. As a young kid one of my favorite Leafs,
he played more games for Toronto (and only Toronto) than any other Leaf and scored our last
Stanley Cup winning goal in 1967.
Toronto Maple Leafs retired his number 10.
 
George lived about 10 houses from my cousins (7 girls and 3 boys) on Iona
near Woodbine and Danforth in Toronto, yup an east ender.
Whenever I was over there and we'd see George we all yelled "hi Chief" (can't do that today).
Always a friendly wave and a smile and once or twice he even stopped to talk to us.

RIP - George Armstrong, thanx for the memories and the Stanley Cups



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God Bless George. He was a thoughful and humble man. I never liked to ask him for photos just because I respected him so much, actually revered is the right word. A friend of his daughter took this candid shot of George and me talking hockey at a Leaside Community event back in November 2018 and I'm glad she did, its one of my prized photos and you can see him giving me advice and me attentively listening. Not too often that you can speak with a Legend. I saw him a few times after that out in the community. The last time I saw him he was having dinner at the Swiss Chalet pre-COVID-19 with his daughter and no one in the place had a clue who he was except me. You can see the native necklace he was wearing in the photo. He told me his mother had given that to him and he was justifiably proud to wear that. 

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