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By Fluto Shinzawa Globe Staff WILMINGTON - Like most hockey players, Zdeno Chara understands The Code. On March 8, Chara drove Montreal's Max Pacioretty into a stanchion near one of the benches at the Bell Centre. Pacioretty fractured his fourth cervical vertebra and suffered a severe concussion. Montreal fans, no strangers to hysteria, dashed to call 911 and insisted that Chara be dragged out of the rink in leg irons. A day later, the province of Quebec howled when the NHL didn't suspe