Here are the top defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – June edition!

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	June	May	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	114.1	35	43	-8
2	John Carlson	WAS	112.9	38	31	7
3	Adam Fox	NYR	110.1	41	38	3
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	108.1	43	42	1
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	96.8	59	59	0
6	Roman Josi	NSH	95.2	62	66	-4
7	Shea Theodore	VGK	95.2	63	65	-2
8	Morgan Rielly	TOR	94.1	65	53	12
9	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	94.0	66	77	-11
10	Tyson Barrie	EDM	89.7	73	57	16
11	Thomas Chabot	OTT	78.3	92	100	-8
12	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	73.8	101	81	20
13	Kris Letang	PIT	71.4	107	119	-12
14	Torey Krug	STL	68.5	114	174	-60
15	John Klingberg	DAL	67.4	117	130	-13
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	62.4	125	121	4
17	Seth Jones	CBJ	59.2	130	134	-4
18	Samuel Girard	COL	58.7	134	137	-3
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	58.6	135	144	-9
20	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	57.4	141	159	-18
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	54.2	150	140	10
22	Darnell Nurse	EDM	53.7	153	199	-46
23	Drew Doughty	LAK	49.2	169	145	24
24	Ivan Provorov	PHI	48.7	172	141	31
25	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	45.9	180	148	32
26	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	45.4	185	178	7
27	Filip Hronek	DET	42.6	191	244	-53
28	Neal Pionk	WPG	40.3	196	191	5
29	Brent Burns	SJS	40.2	197	183	14
30	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	40.2	198	182	16
31	Ty Smith	NJD	40.0	200	213	-13
32	Erik Karlsson	SJS	38.3	206	190	16
33	Jeff Petry	MON	34.4	220	257	-37
34	Josh Morrissey	WPG	34.3	222	177	45
35	Ryan Ellis	NSH	33.2	229	196	33
36	Adam Boqvist	CHI	33.0	230	241	-11
37	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	32.9	231	364	-133
38	Devon Toews	COL	31.7	235	212	23
39	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	27.3	254	219	35
40	Matt Dumba	MIN	27.2	255	260	-5
41	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	26.1	263	271	-8
42	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	25.2	271	253	18
43	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	24.8	275	303	-28
44	Evan Bouchard	EDM	23.8	281	278	3
45	Ryan Pulock	NYI	23.5	283	262	21
46	Jacob Trouba	NYR	23.0	289	291	-2
47	Keith Yandle	FLA	22.8	290	290	0
48	Gustav Forsling	FLA	22.6	292	254	38
49	Damon Severson	NJD	20.9	303	300	3
50	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	20.5	306	311	-5
51	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	20.4	307	284	23
52	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	20.0	310	295	15
53	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	19.9	311	287	24
54	Alec Martinez	VGK	18.9	321	329	-8
55	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	17.6	340	307	33
56	Travis Sanheim	PHI	16.6	353	293	60
57	Nick Leddy	NYI	15.8	366	389	-23
58	Bowen Byram	COL	15.7	367	457	-90
59	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	15.5	374	319	55
60	Vince Dunn	STL	15.4	375	347	28
61	Justin Schultz	WAS	15.2	379	351	28
62	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.1	382	353	29
63	Jake Bean	CAR	14.9	388	NR	#####
64	Will Butcher	NJD	14.9	390	395	-5
65	Noah Dobson	NYI	14.7	391	339	52

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

Brandon Montour	BUF	Cam Fowler	ANA
Ethan Bear	EDM	Mike Reilly	BOS
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Brett Pesce	CAR
Shea Weber	MON	Noah Hanifin	CGY
Alexander Romanov	MON	Juuso Valimaki	CGY
Erik Gustafsson	MON	Mark Giordano	CGY
P.K. Subban	NJD	Esa Lindell	DAL
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Dennis Cholowski	DET
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Nils Lundkvist	NYR
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Scott Perunovich	STL
Mike Matheson	PIT	Travis Dermott	TOR
Colton Parayko	STL	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Jake Muzzin	TOR

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

Josh Mahura	ANA	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Caleb Jones	EDM
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Sean Walker	LAK
Ian Mitchell	CHI	Ryan Suter	MIN
Ryan Graves	COL	Brennan Menell	MIN
Conor Timmins	COL	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Kale Clague	LAK	Victor Mete	OTT
David Farrance	NSH	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Philippe Myers	PHI	Ryan Merkley	SJS
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Erik Cernak	TBL	Justin Faulk	STL
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	David Savard	TBL
Rasmus Sandin	TOR	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Nate Schmidt	VAN	Tyler Myers	VAN

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	JOSH DOAN	BUF

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	JET GREAVES	CBJ
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	LINUS ULLMARK	OTT
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	STL Players
	23.5	ROBERT THOMAS JIMMY SNUGGERUD DYLAN HOLLOWAY
	22.4	NATHAN WALKER ALEXEY TOROPCHENKO JACK FINLEY
	19.7	JAKE NEIGHBOURS DALIBOR DVORSKY JONATAN BERGGREN

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