Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – March 2020
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2020-03-04
Here are the Top 100 105 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – March edition! *with another five as a bonus!
As always, players between +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point should be determined by your team needs and/or personal preference. These were pulled directly from the overall Top 300 skaters list (which you can find here, posted Tuesday).
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| Def Rk | Player | Team | Rating | March | Feb | Change |
| 1 | John Carlson | WAS | 145.6874 | 17 | 21 | -4 |
| 2 | Roman Josi | NSH | 108.9259 | 43 | 43 | 0 |
| 3 | Victor Hedman | TBL | 99.84833 | 50 | 50 | 0 |
| 4 | Cale Makar | COL | 99.56277 | 52 | 52 | 0 |
| 5 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | 89.11144 | 62 | 74 | -12 |
| 6 | Tony DeAngelo | NYR | 79.27811 | 76 | 84 | -8 |
| 7 | Erik Karlsson | SJS | 79.14619 | 77 | 62 | 15 |
| 8 | Dougie Hamilton | CAR | 78.05223 | 82 | 85 | -3 |
| 9 | Alex Pietrangelo | STL | 77.80909 | 83 | 76 | 7 |
| 10 | Brent Burns | SJS | 77.78595 | 84 | 86 | -2 |
| 11 | Torey Krug | BOS | 77.75287 | 85 | 89 | -4 |
| 12 | Morgan Rielly | TOR | 77.23788 | 86 | 79 | 7 |
| 13 | Rasmus Dahlin | BUF | 70.96903 | 98 | 101 | -3 |
| 14 | Tyson Barrie | TOR | 69.57497 | 100 | 102 | -2 |
| 15 | Keith Yandle | FLA | 69.02575 | 102 | 87 | 15 |
| 16 | Thomas Chabot | OTT | 63.21695 | 110 | 106 | 4 |
| 17 | Kris Letang | PIT | 59.96203 | 120 | 123 | -3 |
| 18 | Zach Werenski | CBJ | 58.37513 | 123 | 131 | -8 |
| 19 | John Klingberg | DAL | 54.18528 | 137 | 141 | -4 |
| 20 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | 50.51622 | 144 | 155 | -11 |
| 21 | Shea Theodore | VGK | 49.48307 | 147 | 163 | -16 |
| 22 | Seth Jones | CBJ | 46.46192 | 156 | 124 | 32 |
| 23 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | ARI | 45.60498 | 159 | 148 | 11 |
| 24 | Erik Gustafsson | CGY | 43.73245 | 163 | 171 | -8 |
| 25 | Jacob Trouba | NYR | 41.62721 | 166 | 151 | 15 |
| 26 | Aaron Ekblad | FLA | 41.34163 | 167 | 176 | -9 |
| 27 | Drew Doughty | LAK | 40.13759 | 171 | 160 | 11 |
| 28 | Mark Giordano | CGY | 39.7037 | 172 | 167 | 5 |
| 29 | Neal Pionk | WPG | 39.35576 | 174 | 191 | -17 |
| 30 | Ivan Provorov | PHI | 38.878 | 176 | 182 | -6 |
| 31 | Ryan Ellis | NSH | 38.12055 | 180 | 194 | -14 |
| 32 | Ryan Suter | MIN | 36.23843 | 188 | 192 | -4 |
| 33 | Ryan Pulock | NYI | 34.60601 | 194 | 196 | -2 |
| 34 | Josh Morrissey | WPG | 33.75375 | 199 | 200 | -1 |
| 35 | Samuel Girard | COL | 33.6211 | 200 | 211 | -11 |
| 36 | Shea Weber | MON | 31.88444 | 206 | 178 | 28 |
| 37 | Mikhail Sergachev | TBL | 31.68591 | 208 | 198 | 10 |
| 38 | Jaccob Slavin | CAR | 30.89683 | 212 | 263 | -51 |
| 39 | Filip Hronek | DET | 29.16109 | 224 | 204 | 20 |
| 40 | Rasmus Ristolainen | BUF | 28.45493 | 225 | 245 | -20 |
| 41 | Kevin Shattenkirk | TBL | 28.33096 | 227 | 206 | 21 |
| 42 | Charlie McAvoy | BOS | 27.51148 | 232 | 270 | -38 |
| 43 | Adam Fox | NYR | 27.3088 | 234 | 243 | -9 |
| 44 | Mattias Ekholm | NSH | 27.09559 | 237 | 223 | 14 |
| 45 | Jeff Petry | MON | 25.85677 | 245 | 247 | -2 |
| 46 | Shayne Gostisbehere | PHI | 25.54107 | 250 | 239 | 11 |
| 47 | Oscar Klefbom | EDM | 24.14486 | 260 | 229 | 31 |
| 48 | Matt Dumba | MIN | 22.43404 | 272 | 260 | 12 |
| 49 | Darnell Nurse | EDM | 21.30226 | 276 | 256 | 20 |
| 50 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | 20.36889 | 288 | 287 | 1 |
| 51 | Sami Vatanen | CAR | 18.29183 | 306 | 328 | -22 |
| 52 | Cam Fowler | ANA | 17.78042 | 313 | 314 | -1 |
| 53 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | 17.36889 | 317 | 321 | -4 |
| 54 | Nate Schmidt | VGK | 17.28739 | 318 | 322 | -4 |
| 55 | Brandon Montour | BUF | 17.22931 | 319 | 323 | -4 |
| 56 | Damon Severson | NJD | 17.11071 | 321 | 423 | -102 |
| 57 | Travis Sanheim | PHI | 15.98455 | 341 | 344 | -3 |
| 58 | Vince Dunn | STL | 15.68944 | 346 | 349 | -3 |
| 59 | Hampus Lindholm | ANA | 15.16881 | 360 | 360 | 0 |
| 60 | Mike Matheson | FLA | 14.99012 | 364 | 364 | 0 |
| 61 | Jared Spurgeon | MIN | 14.76807 | 370 | 427 | -57 |
| 62 | Jakob Chychrun | ARI | 14.32335 | 377 | 393 | -16 |
| 63 | Colton Parayko | STL | 14.22947 | 378 | 379 | -1 |
| 64 | P.K. Subban | NJD | 13.62447 | 387 | 388 | -1 |
| 65 | Travis Dermott | TOR | 13.57267 | 389 | 390 | -1 |
| 66 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | 13.07904 | 395 | 398 | -3 |
| 67 | Brady Skjei | NYR | 12.57435 | 400 | 366 | 34 |
| 68 | Alexander Edler | VAN | 12.55509 | 401 | 424 | -23 |
| 69 | Will Butcher | NJD | 12.55376 | 402 | 391 | 11 |
| 70 | Henri Jokiharju | BUF | 12.23333 | 405 | 410 | -5 |
| 71 | Ryan Graves | COL | 12.12148 | 408 | 412 | -4 |
| 72 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | 11.86735 | 411 | 415 | -4 |
| 73 | Dmitry Orlov | WAS | 11.74466 | 414 | 358 | 56 |
| 74 | Alex Goligoski | ARI | 11.31039 | 418 | 384 | 34 |
| 75 | Matt Grzelcyk | BOS | 11.29013 | 419 | 425 | -6 |
| 76 | Noah Hanifin | CGY | 11.14804 | 420 | 428 | -8 |
| 77 | Justin Faulk | STL | 11.05164 | 421 | 422 | -1 |
| 78 | Ryan McDonagh | TBL | 11.02638 | 422 | 429 | -7 |
| 79 | Ethan Bear | EDM | 11.00795 | 423 | 430 | -7 |
| 80 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | 10.87832 | 424 | 431 | -7 |
| 81 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | 10.22654 | 427 | 434 | -7 |
| 82 | Devon Toews | NYI | 10.1597 | 429 | 446 | -17 |
| 83 | Esa Lindell | DAL | 9.862859 | 431 | 413 | 18 |
| 84 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | 9.6722 | 434 | 438 | -4 |
| 85 | Bowen Byram | COL | 9.592701 | 436 | 441 | -5 |
| 86 | Sami Niku | WPG | 8.827879 | 446 | 450 | -4 |
| 87 | John Marino | PIT | 7.8144 | 456 | 402 | 54 |
| 88 | TJ Brodie | CGY | 7.753677 | 459 | 452 | 7 |
| 89 | Dustin Byfuglien | WPG | 7.690303 | 461 | 465 | -4 |
| 90 | Erik Cernak | TBL | 7.663006 | 462 | 466 | -4 |
| 91 | Ian Cole | COL | 7.659846 | 463 | 426 | 37 |
| 92 | Ty Smith | NJD | 7.554946 | 465 | 468 | -3 |
| 93 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | 7.496007 | 466 | 469 | -3 |
| 94 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | 7.495823 | 467 | 470 | -3 |
| 95 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | 7.230738 | 468 | 472 | -4 |
| 96 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | 7.205021 | 469 | 473 | -4 |
| 97 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | 6.984777 | 473 | 478 | -5 |
| 98 | Conor Timmins | COL | 6.963019 | 474 | 479 | -5 |
| 99 | Marcus Pettersson | PIT | 6.688984 | 480 | 486 | -6 |
| 100 | Noah Dobson | NYI | 6.608271 | 482 | 488 | -6 |
| 101 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | 6.556674 | 485 | 491 | -6 |
| 102 | Philippe Myers | PHI | 6.545727 | 486 | 492 | -6 |
| 103 | Sean Walker | LAK | 6.506329 | 487 | 453 | 34 |
| 104 | Jake Bean | CAR | 6.424896 | 488 | 493 | -5 |
| 105 | Scott Perunovich | STL | 6.241678 | 493 | 495 | -2 |
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