the bruins move guys around allt he time - i would certainly say lindholm is top pair.

provorov is awful.

I'm sorry but Werenski does not belong on this list. He is top pair.

Everyone except Werenski and ill give him the benefit of the doubt Seider shouldnt be here

You forgot Morgan Reilly

Top four includes the top pair, so not sure what the delineator is.

Werenski is a #1, drive the top pair himself defenseman. He just hasn't been consistently healthy.

Nurse, Lindholm, Parayko, Jones, Andersson (in that order) I think all make varying amounts of sense on a top pair, but they need a strong partner to actually be effective on a contender. Lindholm works great as a foil to McAvoy, whether they're together or apart. Power and maybe Seider I think it's still too early to judge, though would lean in the same boat for both.

Severson probably not, maybe with the right partner but it would need to be a strong partner in their own right.

I'm not convinced Provorov is anything more than a 3rd pair guy at this point.

Is there no Sergachev because of injury?

There's lots more top-4 defensemen than this. What is this list supposed to show, exactly?

Lindholm, Andersson, Power, Jones, and Seider are all absolutely top pairing defensemen

People have a strange idea of what "top pairing" means. By definition there are 64 top pairing guys in the league, and most of these guys are definitely in the top-64 defensemen in the league.

Of course, not every team has 2 top pairing defenseman, some have 1, others have 3. But that doesn't change the definition.

"Top pairing" doesn't mean top-10 or top-20.