It's nice to get a shutout without Spurgeon, though I don't know if it was really as strong a performance as it seemed-- there were a few that the Wild had no hand in not being goals. But anyways, Suter/Dumba has been holding its own so far. I really did not think Suter/Spurgeon was working for whatever reason. Brodin/Murphy has been pretty solid too, so I don't know what I'd prefer to do with Spurgeon. Suppose it doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure he will be back with Suter for the return of Dumb-Bro.
Heeey, Ennis scored! Good for him. He works hard. He just needs a whole bunch of opportunities every game that are like that, where he can skate around the net with nobody near him to breeze him off the puck. Those are a dime a dozen, right?
Regarding Parise, if he's not better than last year, then he's still got a back problem. He played through one of those once and might have noticed how it ended. If he does it again it's not going to have a better ending.
