Brandon Tanev plays hockey at high speed most of the time.
The rest of it, he plays at a higher one.
Skating is the cornerstone of everything he does, from ferocious forechecking to efficient penalty-killing, so being forced to stay off the ice since March 12, when the NHL suspended operations because of the coronavirus pandemic, could cause some serious problems for him.
Perhaps they will, but Tanev said Wednesday that even though he hasn't been on the ice in a while, he's been on skates numerous times during the shutdown.
The kind with wheels, not steel blades.