If you’re a Minnesota Wild fan wondering whether this is the year Ryan Suter’s minutes start getting reduced, you got your answer last night.
The answer, by the way, is a resounding “No.”
The Wild played their first game of the season in Detroit Thursday, but Suter’s workload was in mid-season form. Suter logged 28:34 of ice time. A typical night for him, but compared to the rest of the league it was 2nd behind only Shea Weber.
And that’s fine. Some may want that number to come down out of concern for Suter’s long-term outlook.