Stanley Albert Joseph

Stanley Albert Joseph, known as Bunny, was a Canadian amateur box lacrosse goaltender who lived from 1928 to 2001. He began his Senior A career as a teenager with the North Shore Indians, as his father Stan Joseph had before him, and went on to a career of 25 years at that level. He won three Mann Cup national championships, two of them with the New Westminster Salmonbellies in 1958 and 1959 and the third with the Vancouver Carlings, and he was admired for an unorthodox style in which he held his stick with both hands and its head at waist level. He played 522 games in the Western Lacrosse Association, the fourth most of any player, and faced more shots than any other goaltender in its regular season. He entered the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1976 and later became a respected elder of the Squamish Nation in North Vancouver.