The Culture.
How a closed, all-male system produces and protects what it produces.
“For the love of the game”
A project about hockey’s accountability problem.
Examining the culture, the institutions, and the gap between what the sport says and what it does.
NHL Official Rules
Rule 23.1Game Misconduct
A game misconduct penalty involves the suspension of a player for the balance of the game but a substitute is permitted to replace the player removed. Ten minutes are applied in the league records to the player incurring a game misconduct penalty.
Hockey is precise about what crosses the line on the ice. It goes quiet about what crosses it off the ice.
This is a project about that silence: the culture that produces it, the institutions that maintain it, and what it would take to change.
Our Rules
Two rules for every piece of this:
- 1.Opinion and satire is always labeled.
- 2.Every claim is always sourced.
This is commentary and criticism on a matter of public interest. It targets institutions, culture, and the systems that handle violence in sport, not the guilt or innocence of any individual. It is noncommercial. Nothing here is for sale, and nothing here is sponsored.
What’s here
The Language.
How we talk about violence in ways that quietly erase who did it.
The System.
The policies that don’t exist, and the ones that do.
The Resources.
What works, and where to get help.
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