Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – September 2018

Dobber

2018-09-06

Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – September edition.

This month is just tweaking the big one from last month (August was the annual full player-by-player audit). Mostly a few young players I adjusted, added some more new prospects and adjusted based on the Nate Schmidt news (knocks him right off this list since he won't put up enough points to help points-only leagues this year and his upside was never very high to keep for future years – just re-draft him next year). Because it's that time of year, I kept an additional 14 players on this list in case it can help someone…

As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 ratings should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs. The top 300 skaters went up yesterday (here). The Top G list was posted earlier this week (here) and I also did the Top Prospect Goalies (here) and I should note that I made changes to that originally posted list and re-posted it.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Sep	Aug
1	Erik Karlsson	OTT	113.3	36	36
2	Victor Hedman	TBL	104.9	44	44
3	Brent Burns	SJS	102.5	48	48
4	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	93.2	57	57
5	John Klingberg	DAL	89.7	63	63
6	P.K. Subban	NSH	78.3	79	79
7	Seth Jones	CBJ	78.0	80	80
8	John Carlson	WAS	73.9	85	85
9	Torey Krug	BOS	73.6	86	86
10	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	69.2	98	99
11	Drew Doughty	LAK	67.0	100	100
12	Roman Josi	NSH	66.5	101	101
13	Morgan Rielly	TOR	65.4	104	104
14	Tyson Barrie	COL	62.3	116	115
15	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	59.3	125	123
16	Ryan Ellis	NSH	58.1	127	141
17	Matt Dumba	MIN	57.5	130	144
18	Zach Werenski	CBJ	56.0	133	131
19	Alex Pietrangelo	STL	54.7	138	136
20	Keith Yandle	FLA	53.9	142	142
21	Kris Letang	PIT	52.7	144	143
22	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	49.5	148	148
23	Dustin Byfuglien	WPG	48.9	151	151
24	Jake Gardiner	TOR	48.6	153	153
25	Ivan Provorov	PHI	41.3	170	171
26	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	36.1	181	181
27	Shea Theodore	VGK	36.0	182	182
28	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	34.5	188	189
29	Kevin Shattenkirk	NYR	34.1	193	186
30	Brandon Montour	ANA	33.4	197	198
31	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	33.1	199	200
32	Jacob Trouba	WPG	33.0	201	202
33	Ryan Pulock	NYI	32.6	203	204
34	Noah Hanifin	CGY	31.2	210	211
35	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	30.4	215	215
36	Colton Parayko	STL	29.4	223	223
37	Justin Schultz	PIT	26.2	240	241
38	Josh Morrissey	WPG	26.1	241	242
39	Will Butcher	NJD	25.9	242	243
40	Nick Leddy	NYI	25.1	247	249
41	Ryan Suter	MIN	24.6	252	252
42	Mike Matheson	FLA	23.3	259	260
43	Colin Miller	VGK	22.2	262	262
44	Thomas Chabot	OTT	21.9	264	264
45	Tyler Myers	WPG	21.6	268	268
46	Jake Muzzin	LAK	21.1	271	271
47	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	18.7	290	290
48	Cam Fowler	ANA	17.1	301	301
49	TJ Brodie	CGY	17.0	302	302
50	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	16.1	314	317
51	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	15.0	329	330
52	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	14.9	330	331
53	Ryan McDonagh	TBL	14.6	333	334
54	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	13.6	342	343
55	Samuel Girard	COL	13.5	345	346
56	Hampus Lindholm	ANA	13.4	346	347
57	Christian Djoos	WAS	13.0	352	352
58	Sami Vatanen	NJD	12.7	354	353
59	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	12.7	355	354
60	Quinn Hughes	VAN	12.5	361	359
61	Julius Honka	DAL	12.1	366	364
62	Damon Severson	NJD	12.0	367	365
63	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	11.8	369	367
64	Evan Bouchard	EDM	11.7	371	369
65	Mark Giordano	CGY	11.5	375	316
66	Adam Boqvist	CHI	11.4	377	374
67	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	10.9	386	383
68	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	10.6	389	386
69	Alex Goligoski	ARI	10.4	391	388
70	Josh Manson	ANA	10.2	393	390
71	Duncan Keith	CHI	10.1	394	329
72	Cale Makar	COL	10.1	395	402
73	Esa Lindell	DAL	9.9	396	392
74	Darnell Nurse	EDM	9.9	397	393
75	Matt Niskanen	WAS	9.8	399	395
76	Derrick Pouliot	VAN	9.7	400	396
77	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	9.7	401	397
78	Justin Faulk	CAR	9.2	404	400
79	Nikita Zadorov	COL	9.1	405	401
80	Jeff Petry	MON	8.9	408	404
81	Vince Dunn	STL	8.6	411	407
82	Filip Hronek	DET	8.4	412	NR
83	Brady Skjei	NYR	8.4	413	408
84	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	8.4	415	410
85	Sami Niku	WPG	8.2	419	NR
86	Madison Bowey	WAS	8.0	422	416
87	Mike Green	DET	8.0	423	417
88	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	7.9	424	418
89	Conor Timmins	COL	7.9	425	419
90	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	7.7	429	423
91	Travis Sanheim	PHI	7.6	430	424
92	Jake Walman	STL	7.5	431	425
93	Sebastian Aho	NYI	7.5	432	426
94	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	7.3	439	432
95	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	7.3	440	433
96	Travis Dermott	TOR	7.2	443	436
97	Oliver Kylington	CGY	7.1	444	437
98	Erik Gustafsson	CHI	7.1	445	438
99	Olli Juolevi	VAN	7.1	448	441
100	Alexander Edler	VAN	6.8	450	443
101	Victor Mete	MON	6.8	452	445
102	Daniel Brickley	LAK	6.5	454	NR
103	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	6.3	458	450
104	Dante Fabbro	NSH	6.2	460	453
105	Jan Rutta	CHI	5.9	464	457
106	Ethan Bear	EDM	5.5	471	463
107	Chris Wideman	OTT	5.5	473	465
108	Shea Weber	MON	5.3	474	466
109	Adam Fox	CAR	5.2	475	467
110	Kale Clague	LAK	5.2	476	468
111	Brendan Guhle	BUF	4.9	484	476
112	Noah Juulsen	MON	4.8	487	478
113	Marc-Edouard Vlasic	SJS	4.7	488	479
114	Devon Toews	NYI	4.6	493	NR

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 23 - 13:12	N.J	vs	NYR
Dec 23 - 14:12	TOR	vs	WPG
Dec 23 - 19:12	DET	vs	STL
Dec 23 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	MTL
Dec 23 - 19:12	BOS	vs	WSH
Dec 23 - 19:12	FLA	vs	T.B
Dec 23 - 19:12	PIT	vs	PHI
Dec 23 - 19:12	NYI	vs	BUF
Dec 23 - 20:12	NSH	vs	CAR
Dec 23 - 20:12	MIN	vs	CHI
Dec 23 - 21:12	UTA	vs	DAL
Dec 23 - 21:12	VAN	vs	S.J
Dec 23 - 22:12	VGK	vs	ANA