Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – April edition!

As always, players rated within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias. This list was simply curated from the full Top 300 skaters list that was posted Thursday. Access all the rankings historically, here.

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Def Rank	Player	Team	Rating	April	March	Change
1	John Carlson	WAS	116.4	32	26	6
2	Victor Hedman	TBL	113.3	34	47	-13
3	Cale Makar	COL	111.3	35	38	-3
4	Adam Fox	NYR	97.7	52	161	-109
5	Morgan Rielly	TOR	96.1	55	55	0
6	Shea Theodore	VGK	96.1	56	61	-5
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	95.5	58	48	10
8	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	89.9	64	70	-6
9	Tyson Barrie	EDM	85.8	68	95	-27
10	Roman Josi	NSH	81.6	74	69	5
11	Thomas Chabot	OTT	74.3	88	91	-3
12	John Klingberg	DAL	72.9	90	89	1
13	Kris Letang	PIT	67.6	105	142	-37
14	Torey Krug	STL	63.6	116	104	12
15	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	62.6	119	119	0
16	Samuel Girard	COL	62.5	120	158	-38
17	Drew Doughty	LAK	59.9	126	151	-25
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	56.8	133	136	-3
19	Darnell Nurse	EDM	56.8	134	182	-48
20	Seth Jones	CBJ	56.3	136	138	-2
21	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	52.5	145	150	-5
22	Zach Werenski	CBJ	52.4	146	122	24
23	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	51.6	148	97	51
24	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	50.9	152	131	21
25	Erik Karlsson	SJS	48.9	158	141	17
26	Brent Burns	SJS	47.4	162	124	38
27	Neal Pionk	WPG	46.9	165	174	-9
28	Jeff Petry	MON	44.1	175	183	-8
29	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	42.7	180	221	-41
30	Filip Hronek	DET	40.0	184	209	-25
31	Ivan Provorov	PHI	39.8	187	179	8
32	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	38.3	189	207	-18
33	Ty Smith	NJD	37.5	192	198	-6
34	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	36.3	199	180	19
35	Nick Leddy	NYI	36.3	200	316	-116
36	Devon Toews	COL	34.1	210	298	-88
37	Keith Yandle	FLA	31.7	221	188	33
38	Adam Boqvist	CHI	30.5	225	237	-12
39	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	30.0	226	227	-1
40	Erik Gustafsson	PHI	29.0	230	159	71
41	Josh Morrissey	WPG	27.9	241	226	15
42	Matt Dumba	MIN	25.9	249	233	16
43	Evan Bouchard	EDM	23.8	262	282	-20
44	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	22.8	268	256	12
45	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	19.8	289	405	-116
46	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	19.8	291	326	-35
47	Justin Schultz	WAS	19.4	293	415	-122
48	Colton Parayko	STL	17.7	315	262	53
49	Alec Martinez	VGK	17.0	321	418	-97
50	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	16.3	336	313	23
51	Shea Weber	MON	16.2	338	285	53
52	Vince Dunn	STL	15.9	341	275	66
53	Travis Sanheim	PHI	15.8	342	289	53
54	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	15.7	344	200	144
55	Ryan Pulock	NYI	15.4	352	242	110
56	Jacob Trouba	NYR	15.2	355	327	28
57	Will Butcher	NJD	14.9	361	343	18
58	Bowen Byram	COL	14.7	364	387	-23
59	Ryan Ellis	NSH	14.4	366	232	134
60	Jake Muzzin	TOR	13.8	375	339	36
61	Damon Severson	NJD	13.7	376	278	98
62	Alexander Romanov	MON	13.2	380	407	-27
63	Mark Giordano	CGY	13.1	383	276	107
64	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	12.8	387	416	-29
65	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	12.6	390	494	-104

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

Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Esa Lindell	DAL
Jake Bean	CAR	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS
P.K. Subban	NJD	Kale Clague	LAK
Brett Pesce	CAR	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Ethan Bear	EDM	Jonas Brodin	MIN
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Noah Dobson	NYI	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Mike Matheson	PIT	Ryan Graves	COL
Brandon Montour	BUF	Erik Cernak	TBL
Noah Hanifin	CGY	Cam Fowler	ANA
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Dennis Cholowski	DET	Sami Niku	WPG
Scott Perunovich	STL

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	Caleb Jones	EDM
David Farrance	NSH	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Josh Mahura	ANA	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Jamie Drysdale	ANA
Rasmus Sandin	TOR	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Conor Timmins	COL	Sean Walker	LAK
Ryan Suter	MIN	Matt Roy	LAK
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Oscar Klefbom	EDM
Mikko Lehtonen	CBJ	Christian Djoos	DET
Nate Schmidt	VAN	Bode Wilde	NYI
Jake Gardiner	CAR	Mike Reilly	OTT
Tyler Myers	VAN	Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ
Ryan Merkley	SJS	Jett Woo	VAN
Philippe Myers	PHI	Dmitry Orlov	WAS
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Mario Ferraro	SJS