Commentary The hockey world has lost a great player and a fine person with the passing of Toronto Maple Leafs legend George Armstrong. One of the top Leafs of all time, Armstrong led the team to three consecutive Stanley Cups in the early 1960s and scored the final goal in the era of the Original Six in 1967 when the Leafs won their last Stanley Cup. He was 90. In that game against the Montreal Canadiens, Leafs coach Punch Imlach put his 36-year-old captain Armstrong and four other senior Leafs on the ice, a salute to their abilities, to help prevent the Habs from tying the game in the final minute. With Gump Worsley pulled, it was six men to five. “We needed to keep those guys from scoring,” Imlach wrote in his memoir, “Hockey is a Battle.” “Where better to turn to than my old guard?” So he sent …