"I think something I've always just taken is trying to get to know your teammates and make it feel like a family," Foligno said. "So that's the biggest thing I think as a leader you want to do and you want to make it feel inviting and make sure everyone has confidence and can be themselves. So that's the only way you're going to make a team better and have it gel better."
Spurgeon said he doesn't expect much to change about Foligno's approach because he understood his role as a leader even before earning a letter.
"Just the presence he has and the energy he brings to games," Spurgeon said. "The insight he has on the game, he's very knowledgable. He knows the situations, but he's also very welcoming to young guys as well."
Dumba, selected by the Wild with the seventh overall selection in the 2012 NHL Draft, is entering his ninth season with the club but is still just 27 years old.
Over the past couple of years, Spurgeon said he has noticed a maturity about Dumba's game on the ice, and a willingness to speak up more off of it.
That was highlighted by his speech in support of racial equality to a worldwide audience before the re-start of the NHL playoffs last August in the Edmonton bubble, as well as his role in helping to found the Hockey Diversity Alliance, an organization whose purpose is to eradicate systemic racism and intolerance in hockey.