Here are the Top 120 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – January edition!

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As always, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point are a matter of team needs or personal bias.

The Top 300 Keeper League Skaters were posted yesterday here.

Click on a player name to be taken to his customized fantasy player profile – all you need to evaluate his worth in your league’s settings.

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Jan	Dec	Change
1	John Carlson	WAS	135.8	25	25	0
2	Cale Makar	COL	99.4	52	53	-1
3	Roman Josi	NSH	98.0	55	54	1
4	Morgan Rielly	TOR	96.1	58	58	0
5	Victor Hedman	TBL	95.3	59	59	0
6	Quinn Hughes	VAN	94.5	61	62	-1
7	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	92.8	63	65	-2
8	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	87.4	72	76	-4
9	Erik Karlsson	SJS	85.6	79	74	5
10	Torey Krug	STL	83.4	81	82	-1
11	Brent Burns	SJS	80.7	87	87	0
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	76.6	93	94	-1
13	Shea Theodore	VGK	76.1	94	99	-5
14	Tyson Barrie	EDM	74.6	98	98	0
15	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	72.9	101	102	-1
16	Zach Werenski	CBJ	69.5	106	107	-1
17	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	67.9	111	111	0
18	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	63.5	120	126	-6
19	Kris Letang	PIT	61.9	125	124	1
20	Seth Jones	CBJ	57.6	137	137	0
21	John Klingberg	DAL	56.9	138	138	0
22	Erik Gustafsson	PHI	49.0	157	157	0
23	Adam Fox	NYR	44.9	171	172	-1
24	Ivan Provorov	PHI	43.7	172	171	1
25	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	43.0	173	173	0
26	Drew Doughty	LAK	42.6	175	175	0
27	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	42.4	177	169	8
28	Keith Yandle	FLA	38.5	186	181	5
29	Ryan Pulock	NYI	38.0	189	185	4
30	Ryan Ellis	NSH	37.5	191	195	-4
31	Neal Pionk	WPG	36.1	202	202	0
32	Filip Hronek	DET	36.1	203	204	-1
33	Josh Morrissey	WPG	36.0	204	205	-1
34	Devon Toews	COL	35.3	207	209	-2
35	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	35.3	208	197	11
36	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	35.2	209	210	-1
37	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	34.7	210	217	-7
38	Matt Dumba	MIN	33.0	218	218	0
39	Darnell Nurse	EDM	32.5	219	219	0
40	Ryan Suter	MIN	32.0	226	226	0
41	Samuel Girard	COL	31.6	229	229	0
42	Mark Giordano	CGY	31.3	232	232	0
43	Jacob Trouba	NYR	30.6	237	245	-8
44	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	30.1	238	248	-10
45	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	26.3	261	262	-1
46	Damon Severson	NJD	26.0	262	263	-1
47	Jeff Petry	MON	24.8	272	271	1
48	Travis Sanheim	PHI	24.5	275	273	2
49	Adam Boqvist	CHI	23.8	281	280	1
50	Colton Parayko	STL	22.1	291	290	1
51	Evan Bouchard	EDM	21.7	295	296	-1
52	Mike Matheson	PIT	21.5	298	299	-1
53	Vince Dunn	STL	21.4	299	300	-1
54	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	21.2	303	304	-1
55	Shea Weber	MON	19.8	316	319	-3
56	Nate Schmidt	VAN	19.7	317	335	-18
57	Henri Jokiharju	BUF	18.1	332	361	-29
58	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	17.7	342	343	-1
59	Brandon Montour	BUF	17.4	345	371	-26
60	Will Butcher	NJD	17.2	349	349	0
61	Noah Hanifin	CGY	16.1	365	365	0
62	Tyler Myers	VAN	14.3	388	406	-18
63	Esa Lindell	DAL	14.3	389	391	-2
64	Bowen Byram	COL	14.2	390	393	-3
65	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	13.7	397	375	22

The Next Group (gap between 66 and 90 is same as gap between 17 and 20 – i.e. they are pretty equal)

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Rasmus Andersson	CGY	Sean Walker	LAK
Alexander Romanov	MON	Alexander Edler	VAN
P.K. Subban	NJD	Dennis Cholowski	DET
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Scott Perunovich	STL
Brady Skjei	CAR	Kale Clague	LAK
Travis Dermott	TOR	Ryan Graves	COL
Ty Smith	NJD	Jake Gardiner	CAR
Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	TJ Brodie	TOR
Ethan Bear	EDM	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Justin Faulk	STL
Juuso Valimaki	CGY

Vets who can chip in, injury risks, prospects with varying degrees of upside and wait time, other defensemen with lower upside and expectations but can chip in at times

Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Philippe Myers	PHI
Sami Niku	WPG	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Mikko Lehtonen	TOR	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Cam Fowler	ANA	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Justin Schultz	WAS
Jake Bean	CAR	Dmitry Orlov	WAS
Noah Dobson	NYI	Christian Djoos	ANA
Josh Mahura	ANA	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA
Conor Timmins	COL	Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ
Colin Miller	BUF	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA
Caleb Jones	EDM	Bode Wilde	NYI
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Jett Woo	VAN
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Nick Leddy	NYI
Jake McCabe	BUF	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Ryan Merkley	SJS	John Marino	PIT

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 27 - 19:12	DET	vs	TOR
Dec 27 - 19:12	BUF	vs	CHI
Dec 27 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	BOS
Dec 27 - 19:12	N.J	vs	CAR
Dec 27 - 20:12	DAL	vs	MIN
Dec 27 - 20:12	STL	vs	NSH
Dec 27 - 21:12	UTA	vs	COL
Dec 27 - 22:12	S.J	vs	VGK