Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – September 2019

Dobber

2019-09-02

Here are the Top ~~100~~ 125 Defensemen to own in your points-only fantasy hockey keeper leagues – September edition!

Just some tweaks for this month, plus a few team changes and signings of minimal impact overall in your fantasy league. I also made adjustments, small ones, based on your comments from last month. I do read those, please speak up if you see something wrong and catch something that I missed.

Because of the lack of movement this month and the importance of the month, for September only, I will expand this list to the Top 125. Hope it helps! As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias.

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Sunday I posted the Top 350 Skaters here.

To reiterate, as this is the No.1 point of contention in my rankings: players within plus/minus 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias.

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Sept	Aug	Change
1	Brent Burns	SJS	115.5	46	46	0
2	Morgan Rielly	TOR	112.5	48	48	0
3	Erik Karlsson	SJS	105.0	52	52	0
4	John Carlson	WAS	103.0	57	57	0
5	Tyson Barrie	TOR	90.7	76	76	0
6	Victor Hedman	TBL	89.6	77	77	0
7	Erik Gustafsson	CHI	86.7	82	82	0
8	Thomas Chabot	OTT	83.1	88	88	0
9	John Klingberg	DAL	80.3	93	93	0
10	Keith Yandle	FLA	76.1	98	98	0
11	Torey Krug	BOS	75.8	100	100	0
12	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	73.7	102	102	0
13	Mark Giordano	CGY	72.1	104	104	0
14	Seth Jones	CBJ	70.7	107	107	0
15	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	69.7	109	109	0
16	Roman Josi	NSH	67.0	112	112	0
17	Matt Dumba	MIN	62.6	124	124	0
18	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	61.6	130	130	0
19	Kris Letang	PIT	60.3	135	135	0
20	Jacob Trouba	NYR	57.9	138	138	0
21	Drew Doughty	LAK	56.8	139	139	0
22	Zach Werenski	CBJ	56.7	140	140	0
23	Alex Pietrangelo	STL	53.6	145	162	17
24	P.K. Subban	NJD	52.1	149	148	-1
25	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	51.3	153	168	15
26	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	48.2	164	163	-1
27	Cale Makar	COL	48.1	165	173	8
28	Josh Morrissey	WPG	43.0	174	174	0
29	Shea Theodore	VGK	42.0	177	177	0
30	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	40.3	179	179	0
31	Ryan Pulock	NYI	39.6	182	182	0
32	Brandon Montour	BUF	37.5	189	190	1
33	Darnell Nurse	EDM	36.4	192	193	1
34	Will Butcher	NJD	36.0	197	198	1
35	Ryan Ellis	NSH	34.1	203	184	-19
36	Dustin Byfuglien	WPG	34.0	204	205	1
37	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	33.5	206	207	1
38	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	33.0	208	204	-4
39	Quinn Hughes	VAN	30.8	213	213	0
40	Ryan McDonagh	TBL	30.8	214	214	0
41	Ryan Suter	MIN	30.2	219	219	0
42	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	29.3	225	225	0
43	Ivan Provorov	PHI	29.3	227	227	0
44	Travis Sanheim	PHI	27.3	236	236	0
45	Jake Muzzin	TOR	26.2	243	243	0
46	Vince Dunn	STL	25.7	246	246	0
47	Noah Hanifin	CGY	25.5	248	248	0
48	Filip Hronek	DET	25.5	249	249	0
49	Jake Gardiner	UFA	25.3	254	254	0
50	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	25.0	258	258	0
51	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	24.4	262	262	0
52	Damon Severson	NJD	22.7	270	270	0
53	Colton Parayko	STL	22.3	273	273	0
54	Samuel Girard	COL	22.0	276	276	0
55	Mike Matheson	FLA	21.1	288	288	0
56	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	20.7	294	294	0
57	Tyler Myers	VAN	20.1	302	302	0
58	TJ Brodie	CGY	19.9	306	306	0
59	Shea Weber	MON	19.3	311	311	0
60	Nate Schmidt	VGK	17.9	331	330	-1
61	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	17.7	333	332	-1
62	Jeff Petry	MON	17.4	339	339	0
63	Evan Bouchard	EDM	17.4	340	340	0
64	Justin Faulk	CAR	17.4	341	341	0
65	Colin Miller	BUF	17.0	345	344	-1
66	Adam Boqvist	CHI	16.4	354	353	-1
67	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	15.0	377	376	-1
68	Kevin Shattenkirk	TBL	14.5	387	456	69
69	Justin Schultz	PIT	14.4	388	385	-3
70	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	14.1	390	387	-3
71	Travis Dermott	TOR	14.0	393	390	-3
72	Esa Lindell	DAL	13.6	396	393	-3
73	Henri Jokiharju	BUF	12.2	417	414	-3
74	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	11.9	419	416	-3
75	Hampus Lindholm	ANA	11.7	423	420	-3
76	Neal Pionk	WPG	11.4	429	426	-3
77	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	11.3	431	428	-3
78	Marcus Pettersson	PIT	11.2	432	429	-3
79	Ty Smith	NJD	11.0	433	430	-3
80	Oliver Kylington	CGY	10.9	434	431	-3
81	Alexander Edler	VAN	10.5	441	439	-2
82	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	10.3	442	440	-2
83	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	10.2	443	437	-6
84	Brady Skjei	NYR	9.9	448	448	0
85	Erik Cernak	TBL	9.7	450	450	0
86	Dennis Cholowski	DET	9.7	451	451	0
87	Bowen Byram	COL	9.6	454	454	0
88	Cody Ceci	TOR	9.4	458	459	1
89	Adam Fox	NYR	9.2	459	460	1
90	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	9.1	461	462	1
91	Conor Timmins	COL	8.9	462	463	1
92	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	8.9	463	464	1
93	Sami Niku	WPG	8.7	464	465	1
94	Devon Toews	NYI	8.7	465	483	18
95	Nick Leddy	NYI	8.2	469	473	4
96	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	8.2	470	467	-3
97	Calle Rosen	COL	8.2	471	471	0
98	Olli Juolevi	VAN	8.1	474	476	2
99	Duncan Keith	CHI	7.8	479	480	1
100	Lawrence Pilut	BUF	7.2	484	485	1
101	Dante Fabbro	NSH	7.2	485	488	3
102	Christian Djoos	WAS	7.2	486	478	-8
103	Josh Mahura	ANA	6.9	490	494	4
104	Victor Mete	MON	6.8	491	489	-2
105	Joel Persson	EDM	6.7	493	496	3
106	Tim Heed	SJS	6.7	494	497	3
107	Caleb Jones	EDM	6.6	495	498	3
108	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	6.6	496	499	3
109	Jake Bean	CAR	6.4	498	501	3
110	Ethan Bear	EDM	6.4	499	502	3
111	Kale Clague	LAK	6.2	500	503	3
112	Scott Perunovich	STL	6.2	501	504	3
113	Julius Honka	DAL	6.0	506	484	-22
114	Nicolas Hague	VGK	5.9	508	509	1
115	Sebastian Aho (d)	NYI	5.8	511	482	-29
116	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	5.7	513	513	0
117	Sami Vatanen	NJD	5.6	515	515	0
118	Philippe Myers	PHI	5.4	519	518	-1
119	Oliwer Kaski	DET	5.3	521	520	-1
120	Cam Fowler	ANA	4.8	527	526	-1
121	Ryan Merkley	SJS	4.8	528	527	-1
122	Josh Brook	MON	4.4	530	529	-1
123	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	4.3	531	531	0
124	Alex Goligoski	ARI	4.1	534	535	1
125	Noah Dobson	NYI	3.6	543	544	1

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