He was with Suter as 1st d pairing. But for two reasons, sutter loves playing with Spurgeon, Brodin got moved to 2nd pair. Also because of dumba struggling early this year they moved brodin to 2nd d pair to help dumba .
Incorrect. Dumba and Suter were on the top pair. Brodin and Spurgeon were on the second pair.
They moved Dumba to the second pair because Spurgeon and Brodin were downright TERRIBLE to start the season, and they needed to mix things up to see if they could get things back on track.
Both Brodin and Spurgeon's games stabilized after their terrible starts.
Spurgeon needed the boost from our best left defenseman in Suter, Brodin needed the boost from our best right defenseman in Dumba.