There is a crazy stigma in hockey that “X player is on the PK, they’re a good two way forward” then if said player is also a decent point producer, that conversation leads to “x player is a Selke level player”.
Ottawa fans are guilt of this with Stützle when he started PKing. But if you actually watch him play, he is terrible at defending 5on5 and often cheats up the ice.
Now Suzuki is a better 5v5 defender than Stützle, That’s pretty obvious , but in reality, league wide he is an average two-way forward, but fans prop him up in conversations like this because it’s difficult for the average fan to quantify defensive contributions because there aren’t many stats that support that. You have to actually watch the games to know who is, and who isn’t a good defensive presence on the ice.
So no, Suzuki isn’t a Selke level talent.