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

In case you missed yesterday’s Top 300 skaters list, you can find that here.

As always, players ranked within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point are a matter of team need or personal bias. Click any player name to be taken to his fantasy hockey player profile.

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	John Carlson	WAS	135.8	23	25	-2
2	Cale Makar	COL	107.7	46	52	-6
3	Quinn Hughes	VAN	101.3	53	61	-8
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	99.4	55	59	-4
5	Morgan Rielly	TOR	96.1	60	58	2
6	Roman Josi	NSH	95.2	61	55	6
7	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	91.4	64	63	1
8	Shea Theodore	VGK	87.3	70	94	-24
9	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	80.7	80	72	8
10	Erik Karlsson	SJS	80.2	84	79	5
11	Torey Krug	STL	76.7	95	81	14
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	75.3	97	93	4
13	Tyson Barrie	EDM	74.6	98	98	0
14	Brent Burns	SJS	73.7	100	87	13
15	John Klingberg	DAL	72.9	103	138	-35
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	67.9	115	111	4
17	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	121	106	15
18	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	58.3	135	120	15
19	Kris Letang	PIT	54.2	148	125	23
20	Seth Jones	CBJ	53.7	150	137	13
21	Erik Gustafsson	PHI	49.0	159	157	2
22	Adam Fox	NYR	47.6	165	171	-6
23	Drew Doughty	LAK	45.2	173	175	-2
24	Samuel Girard	COL	44.8	175	229	-54
25	Keith Yandle	FLA	43.8	177	186	-9
26	Ivan Provorov	PHI	43.7	178	172	6
27	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	43.4	179	208	-29
28	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	43.0	181	173	8
29	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	42.4	182	177	5
30	Filip Hronek	DET	40.0	186	203	-17
31	Darnell Nurse	EDM	38.2	193	219	-26
32	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	37.3	199	210	-11
33	Neal Pionk	WPG	36.1	205	202	3
34	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	35.2	206	209	-3
35	Ryan Ellis	NSH	34.8	209	191	18
36	Jeff Petry	MON	34.8	210	272	-62
37	Josh Morrissey	WPG	34.7	211	204	7
38	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	34.3	213	101	112
39	Ty Smith	NJD	33.5	218	419	-201
40	Ryan Pulock	NYI	32.8	225	189	36
41	Ryan Suter	MIN	30.7	233	226	7
42	Matt Dumba	MIN	30.4	237	218	19
43	Jacob Trouba	NYR	29.3	243	237	6
44	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	29.3	245	303	-58
45	Devon Toews	COL	27.6	257	207	50
46	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	26.3	264	238	26
47	Damon Severson	NJD	26.0	266	262	4
48	Colton Parayko	STL	26.0	267	291	-24
49	Travis Sanheim	PHI	24.5	277	275	2
50	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	24.1	281	398	-117
51	Vince Dunn	STL	23.8	283	299	-16
52	Adam Boqvist	CHI	23.8	284	281	3
53	Shea Weber	MON	23.6	286	316	-30
54	Mark Giordano	CGY	23.6	287	232	55
55	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	22.5	294	261	33
56	Evan Bouchard	EDM	21.7	303	295	8
57	Mike Matheson	PIT	21.5	306	298	8
58	Noah Dobson	NYI	20.9	310	465	-155
59	Henri Jokiharju	BUF	18.1	333	332	1
60	Will Butcher	NJD	17.2	342	349	-7
61	Noah Hanifin	CGY	16.1	361	365	-4
62	Brandon Montour	BUF	15.2	378	345	33
63	Bowen Byram	COL	14.7	384	390	-6
64	Tyler Myers	VAN	14.3	389	388	1
65	Esa Lindell	DAL	14.3	390	389	1

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

Jared Spurgeon	MIN	Jake Gardiner	CAR
Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Justin Schultz	WAS
Alexander Romanov	MON	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS
P.K. Subban	NJD	Dennis Cholowski	DET
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Scott Perunovich	STL
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Kale Clague	LAK
Brady Skjei	CAR	Ryan Graves	COL
Travis Dermott	TOR	TJ Brodie	TOR
Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Ethan Bear	EDM	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Nate Schmidt	VAN
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

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Justin Faulk	STL	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Sean Walker	LAK	Alec Martinez	VGK
Erik Cernak	TBL	Jake McCabe	BUF
Sami Niku	WPG	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Jonas Brodin	MIN
Cam Fowler	ANA	Kyle Capobianco	ARI
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Ryan Merkley	SJS
Jake Bean	CAR	Philippe Myers	PHI
Josh Mahura	ANA	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Victor Mete	MON	Josh Brook	MON
Conor Timmins	COL	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Colin Miller	BUF	Nick Leddy	NYI
Caleb Jones	EDM	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Mikko Lehtonen	TOR	Matt Roy	LAK

UPCOMING GAMES

Mar 30 - 13:03	FLA	vs	MTL
Mar 30 - 15:03	WSH	vs	BUF
Mar 30 - 15:03	WPG	vs	VAN
Mar 30 - 16:03	CHI	vs	UTA
Mar 30 - 17:03	CAR	vs	NYI
Mar 30 - 17:03	PIT	vs	OTT
Mar 30 - 20:03	ANA	vs	TOR
Mar 30 - 22:03	L.A	vs	S.J