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Rare to see a player come out and publicly say this:

http://www.si.com/nhl/2015/11/30/rya...tner-complaint

Ryan Suter got a new defense partner on Monday morning. And the Minnesota Wild star is not happy about the change.

“I don’t know what they’re thinking,” Suter said after learning that he’d be reunited with Jonas Brodin, his partner for much of the past two seasons. “I need to play with a right handed defenseman.”

Although it may come off that way, it's not necessarily a shot at Brodin, who has struggled mightily this season since being taken from Suter's side. But it’s clearly a shot at somebody. And that’s a poor decision on his part.

It’s one thing for Suter to voice his displeasure in private. After all, most defensemen are more comfortable playing with a partner who shoots the opposite way, so it’s no surprise that he’d prefer to play with someone like the right-handed Jared Spurgeon as he has for much of this season.

But opening up in front of the team’s beat writers seems like a calculated strategy to embarrass either head coach Mike Yeo for making the change ... or perhaps to light a fire under Wild GM Chuck Fletcher to bring in another rightie like, say, Travis Hamonic of the Islanders.