Hall of Fame linesman, father of Blues GM Neil Armstrong dies at 87

Neil Armstrong, Hall of Fame NHL linesman and father of St. Louis Blues general manager Doug, died Sunday at the age of 87, the team announced.

Armstrong officiated 1,744 regular-season NHL games from 1957 to 1978. After retiring as a linesman, he became a scout with the Montreal Canadiens. The Hall of Famer was inducted in 1991.

Armstrong was in an assisted living home in Ontario battling dementia and Parkinson's disease. When his son Doug won the Stanley Cup with the Blues in 2019, he was able to bring the trophy to share with his father.

"Being able to share the Stanley Cup with him, to share the ring with him, we did it 20 years ago and to be able to share some of the experiences I've been through the past two decades with him, well, that's pretty special," Doug Armstrong said in 2019 according to NHL.com's Mike Zeisberger.

"He gets a big smile out of it and those are few and far between for him. So it's been great."

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