Original sentence: Fighting is usually performed by one or more enforcers, or "goons"—players whose role it is to fight and intimidate—on a given team and is governed by a complex system of unwritten rules that players, coaches, officials, and the media refer to as "the code"
Edited sentence: Fighting is usually performed by one or more enforcers, or "goons"—players who are typically better at fighting than hockey—on a given team and is governed by a complex system of unwritten rules that players, coaches, officials, and the media refer to as "the code"