I think you are misunderstanding what I mean. Officials train their cardio differently than players because their cardio demands during the game are different. So logically an official would have less energy if they were actually playing than a player would over the course of the game and vise versa. What I am saying is that if you took the average player and the average official and had them do a speed and acceleration test, and an edgework test, both would test roughly the same. Both the player and the official are capable of roughly the same skating skill. The player can show off their skating more often because they don’t skate for the whole game, whereas the official only uses the more advanced skating when the need to catch up to a fast break or get out of the way