Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – May 2016

Dobber

2016-05-06

Top 100 Defensemen (May): Letang, Shatty, Carlson get bumps…

These defensemen were pulled from the Top 300 Keeper League Players list. Get details on criteria (points-only keeper leagues – and other factors) here.

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	May	Apr
1	Erik Karlsson	OTT	135.1	11	9
2	John Klingberg	DAL	100.6	28	28
3	Brent Burns	SJS	99.0	30	29
4	P.K. Subban	MON	84.8	50	49
5	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	82.7	57	46
6	Kris Letang	PIT	80.0	61	72
7	Roman Josi	NSH	71.8	78	73
8	Kevin Shattenkirk	STL	67.9	87	99
9	Drew Doughty	LAK	65.0	95	78
10	Keith Yandle	NYR	64.0	98	91
11	Duncan Keith	CHI	63.0	101	81
12	Shea Weber	NSH	61.7	109	120
13	Dustin Byfuglien	WPG	61.6	111	97
14	John Carlson	WAS	59.8	116	159
15	Mark Giordano	CGY	58.2	123	108
16	Tyson Barrie	COL	57.4	125	106
17	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	54.2	135	182
18	Victor Hedman	TBL	53.7	136	145
19	Ryan Suter	MIN	45.2	158	150
20	Morgan Rielly	TOR	43.0	162	187
21	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	41.5	166	179
22	Dougie Hamilton	CGY	41.4	167	200
23	Justin Faulk	CAR	39.4	172	162
24	Sami Vatanen	ANA	37.4	176	160
25	Nick Leddy	NYI	36.7	177	185
26	TJ Brodie	CGY	35.3	182	178
27	Alex Pietrangelo	STL	34.0	185	181
28	Brent Seabrook	CHI	34.0	186	175
29	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	31.3	192	188
30	Seth Jones	CBJ	30.0	198	216
31	Marc-Edouard Vlasic	SJS	28.7	202	205
32	Anton Stralman	TBL	25.5	212	212
33	Jake Muzzin	LAK	25.1	215	208
34	Ryan Ellis	NSH	23.8	218	236
35	Ryan McDonagh	NYR	21.9	232	235
36	Alex Goligoski	DAL	20.5	245	257
37	Jake Gardiner	TOR	19.6	253	351
38	Anthony DeAngelo	TBL	19.5	256	247
39	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	19.0	259	328
40	Torey Krug	BOS	18.9	261	193
41	Colton Parayko	STL	17.7	279	345
42	Niklas Kronwall	DET	17.1	289	472
43	Matt Niskanen	WAS	16.7	297	263
44	Matt Dumba	MIN	16.4	300	323
45	Jacob Trouba	WPG	15.7	306	255
46	Michael Stone	ARI	15.6	307	312
47	Justin Schultz	PIT	15.2	313	356
48	Nikita Zaitsev	TOR	14.2	319	NR
49	Dion Phaneuf	OTT	14.1	324	322
50	Hampus Lindholm	ANA	13.9	325	315
51	Damon Severson	NJD	13.9	326	326
52	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	13.8	328	341
53	Cam Fowler	ANA	13.8	329	274
54	Dennis Wideman	CGY	13.1	341	338
55	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	12.7	344	344
56	Zdeno Chara	BOS	12.7	345	317
57	Nathan Beaulieu	MON	12.7	346	347
58	Colin Miller	BOS	12.1	353	362
59	Tyler Myers	WPG	12.0	355	365
60	Ryan Pulock	NYI	11.6	359	385
61	Shea Theodore	ANA	11.5	361	367
62	Connor Murphy	ARI	11.3	364	359
63	Cody Ceci	OTT	11.1	366	361
64	Joshua Morrissey	WPG	11.0	369	372
65	Michael Del Zotto	PHI	11.0	370	430
66	Darnell Nurse	EDM	10.9	371	395
67	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	10.6	372	348
68	James Wisniewski	CAR	10.3	374	479
69	Erik Johnson	COL	10.1	376	360
70	Brandon Montour	ANA	10.0	378	371
71	Joe Morrow	BOS	9.9	379	391
72	Adam Larsson	NJD	9.7	380	375
73	Andrei Markov	MON	9.6	381	376
74	Andrej Sekera	EDM	9.5	384	399
75	Kris Russell	DAL	9.3	387	383
76	Mike Reilly	MIN	9.2	388	386
77	Griffin Reinhart	EDM	9.0	389	387
78	Nikita Zadorov	COL	8.8	393	374
79	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	8.8	394	412
80	Olli Maatta	PIT	8.6	397	389
81	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	8.3	401	398
82	Connor Carrick	TOR	8.1	406	404
83	Alex Petrovic	FLA	8.0	407	405
84	Nikita Nesterov	TBL	8.0	408	408
85	Jack Johnson	CBJ	8.0	409	409
86	Mike Matheson	FLA	8.0	410	410
87	Calvin de Haan	NYI	7.8	411	434
88	Ryan Murphy	CAR	7.8	412	411
89	Dmitry Kulikov	FLA	7.6	414	415
90	David Savard	CBJ	7.5	416	417
91	Esa Lindell	DAL	7.3	419	477
92	Brayden McNabb	LAK	7.1	420	396
93	Travis Hamonic	NYI	6.9	422	452
94	Jason Demers	DAL	6.8	423	424
95	Ivan Provorov	PHI	6.8	424	425
96	Trevor Daley	PIT	6.6	428	527
97	Mark Pysyk	BUF	6.4	430	433
98	Eric Gelinas	COL	6.4	431	420
99	Jake McCabe	BUF	6.1	437	437
100	Kevin Connauton	ARI	6.1	442	441

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Ian Sharp 2016-05-06 at 11:58Log in to Reply

And no Mike Green?
- Dobber 2016-05-06 at 13:36Log in to Reply
  
  I’ll look when I get home. He should be here
Sean Mitchelmore 2016-05-06 at 13:18Log in to Reply

Hanifin gets zero love on this site.
- Dobber 2016-05-06 at 13:36Log in to Reply
  
  Rightfully so. Points only. What’s his upside? Maybe 45? In 3 years? Pass
  - hockeey 2016-05-06 at 19:58Log in to Reply
    
    I get that but how can you have guys like Pysyk, Matheson (who’s older and hasn’t proven as much with Hanifin scoring the same rate at BU as him while several years younger), Nesterov, or Reinhart over him when their production isn’t really any better than Hanifin but Hanifin has shown much higher upside??
    
    He doesn’t have to be the next Ekblad to get recognition. There’s at least 10 other players on that list who I’d take him over so while he shouldn’t be top 60 or anything, it’s a little weird that you haven’t even ranked him in the top 100.
    - Sean Mitchelmore 2016-05-07 at 00:05Log in to Reply
      
      He was getting solid PP1 time too, which I always set as a prerequisite for my keeper Dmen (even on an admittedly bad team still nice to see). Lot of guys low on the list would need blackmail pictures of their coach to get those minutes.
    - Dobber 2016-05-07 at 14:23Log in to Reply
      
      I don’t like this list, of all my lists – I just pull it from my Top 300. Not an excuse, just an explanation, but I would prefer this list just be the Top 50 because after that I don’t like it. I don’t like how the formula treats the lower guys, or the prospect defensemen, or the players on weaker teams. I think going forward I’ll just post the Top 50, rather than embarrass myself. You’re absolutely right with this comment.
      To explain my formula, which is quite faulty once we get down beyond the Top 50 or so defensement (i.e. the Top 400 players overall)…Hanifin’s shitty team penalizes him a couple of rating points…and when his points are already low, then “a couple” hurts him too much. And on the opposite end, the Oilers I feel will be high-flying offense, so that helps Reinhart a couple of rating points. And since he only had a couple to begin with, this added “couple” really helps him. Too much.
      It’s flawed, and I shouldn’t present the Top 100 like this until I fix it.
      - hockeey 2016-05-09 at 00:40
        
        Thanks for clarifying that by the way. For what it’s worth these are still extremely good rankings that I look forward to viewing each month. The top 50 is definitely much more accurate and anyone making a top 100 is going to run into a lot of issues with forgetting guys so I definitely respect you for doing so. Hell I’d even say your rankings are pretty good up to top 75 or so.
        
        Hanifin is just one guy who slipped through the cracks but it shouldn’t take away from the fact that your rankings are still really good and that ranking this many players is extremely hard to do. Thank you for the time you put in each month to do these!
      - Dobber Sports 2016-05-09 at 06:54
        
        Thanks!
      - isle b. 2016-05-11 at 17:07
        
        If Hanifin gets “dinged” for being on Carolina, then how does Ryan Murphy make the list? Hanifin is already a better player than Murphy probably will ever be and he certainly has “golden boy” status within the organization (while Murphy is 4 years older and still a part-time Charlotte Checker).
      - Dobber Sports 2016-05-11 at 17:13
        
        No idea. Like I said – the list is deeply flawed beyond the Top 50 and I’ll probably just go with a Top 50 going forward.
lfchockey 2016-05-07 at 08:55Log in to Reply

I’m surprised not to see Hutton break into the list – he was 3rd in NHL D in IPP http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/ratings.php?disp=1&db=201516&sit=5v5&pos=defense&minutes=1000&teamid=0&type=individual&sort=IPP&sortdir=DESC

Slavin has to be relatively close too after his great rookie season
Tyler Thompson 2016-05-17 at 21:05Log in to Reply

Umm Ryan Murray? I know you’ve said that this list is off after the top 50 which is reasonable to say but this guys needs to be on this list.
- Dobber 2016-05-17 at 21:18Log in to Reply
  
  In this case…I think there are 100 defensemen I would prefer over Murray! LOL (ahem – Band-Aid, no upside, etc)
krisco 2016-06-01 at 20:45Log in to Reply

Zero Vancouver Defenceman on here? Seems like a mistake… I’d have Edler and Hutton on here over a lot of the bottom 30 listed here.

UPCOMING GAMES

Nov 05 - 19:11	CAR	vs	PHI
Nov 05 - 19:11	MTL	vs	CGY
Nov 05 - 19:11	BUF	vs	OTT
Nov 05 - 19:11	TOR	vs	BOS
Nov 05 - 19:11	NYI	vs	PIT
Nov 05 - 20:11	MIN	vs	L.A
Nov 05 - 20:11	STL	vs	T.B
Nov 05 - 20:11	WPG	vs	UTA
Nov 05 - 21:11	COL	vs	SEA
Nov 05 - 22:11	ANA	vs	VAN
Nov 05 - 22:11	S.J	vs	CBJ