For the longest time, many have considered Ryan Suter and Jared Spurgeon to be the Minnesota Wild’s top two defenseman. Not only were they both great in their own end, but they could move the puck very well and were more than capable of producing offense for the team, especially on the power-play, where they have been invaluable pieces over the last few seasons.
To this day, Suter and Spurgeon are both top pair caliber defensemen, and they will both likely to continue to be good for a long time, there’s a new top defensive pairing in town, one that includes the smooth skating defensive defenseman Jonas Brodin and the sharpshooting offensive defenseman Matt Dumba.