William Harold Armstrong (born June 25, 1966) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
[2] He invented a move he called a "high wrap", a lacrosse-style shot he successfully used to score goals starting in the 1993–94 AHL season with the Albany River Rats.
The move was later notably used by fellow London, Ontario-born player Mike Legg, who learned it while playing shinny with Armstrong at their hometown arena during the off-season.
[3] Legg scored a goal with the Michigan Wolverines, in the high profile 1996 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament – as compared to the "maybe only 3,000 people [...] in the building" at a River Rats game – earning the move the name "Michigan goal" in the United States.
[3] The high wrap / lacrosse-style goal / Michigan goal (names used interchangeably in reporting) later gained further attention when used by Sidney Crosby, Miks Indrašis, Mikael Granlund,[3] Andrei Svechnikov, Trevor Zegras, Kent Johnson and Connor Bedard.