NASHVILLE — Hockey history is filled with examples of otherwise unheralded players who raise their games when the stakes are highest.
The scrappy underdog, if you will, who shows there is plenty of bite to go with their bark.
Which might just be the perfect way to describe Brandon Tanev. Passed over by every team at the draft, Tanev signed a free-agent deal out of college back in March 2016. It was hardly a blockbuster deal for the Jets, as it doesn’t appear there was any kind of bidding war for his services compared with other high-profile players in a similar situation.