Why Fighting Exists in Hockey: The Story of Hockey's "Enforcers"
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, as mysterious as it is sacred, the Code is an unwritten set of rules—the Bible of hockey sportsmanship, if you will—that has been handed down from generation to generation. Ross Bernstein, author of The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL, spent two years researching this story and is here to share it with you.
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| 2:06.9 | Hockey is and always has been a sport steeped in a culture of violence. |
| 2:12.0 | Players have learned, however, to navigate the escalating levels of physical contact by adhering to an honor system |
| 2:18.7 | simply known as the Code. |
| 2:22.0 | Ross Bernstein, author of The Code, the Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the |
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