Top 75 Defensemen to Draft – Rotisserie Leagues
Dobber
2014-09-26
Dobber presents to you his Top 75 NHL defensemen to draft in your roto league
The next in my series on ranking players positionally for your roto leagues, I countdown the top defensemen to draft. Taking my projections and the Geek tools, I ran the results and came up with the perfect pre-season ranking for these categories.
BOS
D
38
TOR
D
39
PHI
D
39
EDM
D
40
TBL
D
40
NJD
D
41
NYR
D
41
Jacob Trouba
WPG
D
42
NJD
D
42
CHI
D
43
WSH
D
43
LAK
D
44
EDM
D
44
WPG
D
45
TOR
D
45
WSH
D
46
ANA
D
46
NSH
D
47
CGY
D
47
ANA
D
48
Jacob Trouba
WPG
D
48
CAR
D
49
VAN
D
49
NJD
D
50
CAR
D
50
TOR
D
51
NSH
D
51
OTT
D
52
PHI
D
52
CGY
D
53
COL
D
53
Sami Vatanen
ANA
D
54
Sami Vatanen
ANA
D
54
STL
D
55
STL
D
55
TOR
D
56
OTT
D
56
COL
D
57
BOS
D
57
CAR
D
58
ARI
D
58
BUF
D
59
CAR
D
59
CBJ
D
60
VAN
D
60
NSH
D
61
NYR
D
61
CGY
D
62
WPG
D
62
Dmitry Kulikov
FLA
D
63
ANA
D
63
WPG
D
64
CBJ
D
64
VAN
D
65
CHI
D
65
CHI
D
66
NSH
D
66
NYI
D
67
EDM
D
67
ANA
D
68
CGY
D
68
BOS
D
69
WPG
D
69
WPG
D
70
Dmitry Kulikov
FLA
D
70
Matthew Carle
TBL
D
71
BOS
D
71
PHI
D
72
PHI
D
72
DAL
D
73
LAK
D
73
ANA
D
74
MIN
D
74
SJS
D
75
COL
D
75
MIN
D
– Lots of juggling within the Top 10 between the two lists. If your league goes with HITS over PIM, then Weber is your guy over Byfuglien and Karlsson over Subban. Pietrangelo shoots way up the list on the PIM side versus HITS. Ditto for Letang.
– Both dual-position players (Burns and Byfuglien) are high up both lists. Burns is significantly better in leagues that count HITS over PIM.
– You may be shying away from Del Zotto at your draft and frankly I would too. However, if your league counts HITS he’s still not a back scoop even if he has a bad year offensively again.
– Just off of both lists – Danny Dekeyser (Detroit), Matt Donovan (NY Islanders)
– Dark horse to consider who did not make this list – Olli Maatta (Pittsburgh). His shoulder surgery back in May had him slated to return in December. That’s looking more and more like it will be October. Right now he ranks around 90th on both lists, but for each week earlier his return lands you can bump him up five spots.
The Top 50 LW in Roto Leagues (G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP and either HITS or PIM)
The Top 50 RW in Roto Leagues (G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP and either HITS or PIM)
The Top 50 C in Roto Leagues (G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP and either HITS or PIM)
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