Here are the top 120 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – November edition!

As always, players ranked between +/-5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal. Click a player name to be taken to his fantasy hockey profile page!

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	115.3	33	34	1
2	John Carlson	WAS	113.0	35	32	-3
3	Adam Fox	NYR	108.9	39	46	7
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	101.9	47	52	5
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	96.4	52	53	1
6	Roman Josi	NSH	94.3	56	59	3
7	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	88.9	65	65	0
8	Shea Theodore	VGK	88.6	66	61	-5
9	Tyson Barrie	EDM	85.8	72	73	1
10	Thomas Chabot	OTT	81.2	78	74	-4
11	Morgan Rielly	TOR	78.3	88	86	-2
12	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.5	94	94	0
13	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	74.0	96	104	8
14	Seth Jones	CHI	70.8	101	117	16
15	Torey Krug	STL	67.8	117	115	-2
16	Kris Letang	PIT	66.5	122	111	-11
17	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	66.4	123	145	22
18	Zach Werenski	CBJ	62.5	125	127	2
19	John Klingberg	DAL	54.9	140	136	-4
20	Neal Pionk	WPG	52.5	147	172	25
21	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	52.2	148	137	-11
22	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	51.6	150	192	42
23	Samuel Girard	COL	49.9	156	138	-18
24	Darnell Nurse	EDM	48.6	162	168	6
25	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	46.4	174	183	9
26	Erik Karlsson	SJS	46.2	177	207	30
27	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	45.5	181	160	-21
28	Drew Doughty	LAK	41.2	198	191	-7
29	Ivan Provorov	PHI	38.7	209	175	-34
30	Moritz Seider	DET	37.5	213	421	208
31	Evan Bouchard	EDM	35.4	218	267	49
32	Filip Hronek	DET	33.5	225	197	-28
33	Jeff Petry	MON	33.1	228	199	-29
34	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	32.1	236	231	-5
35	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	31.9	237	294	57
36	Matt Dumba	MIN	31.8	238	240	2
37	Brent Burns	SJS	30.3	244	239	-5
38	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	29.9	247	157	-90
39	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	29.1	249	235	-14
40	Ty Smith	NJD	28.1	253	228	-25
41	Devon Toews	COL	27.6	258	248	-10
42	Ryan Ellis	PHI	27.3	262	250	-12
43	Josh Morrissey	WPG	27.0	263	291	28
44	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	25.6	266	362	96
45	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	23.9	275	214	-61
46	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	23.6	277	271	-6
47	Ryan Pulock	NYI	22.3	287	244	-43
48	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	21.4	294	287	-7
49	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	21.4	295	234	-61
50	Gustav Forsling	FLA	20.7	302	396	94
51	Damon Severson	NJD	20.5	304	293	-11
52	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	306	295	-11
53	Vince Dunn	SEA	19.1	323	314	-9
54	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	19.1	324	315	-9
55	Colton Parayko	STL	18.7	331	323	-8
56	Bowen Byram	COL	17.9	339	353	14
57	Keith Yandle	PHI	17.2	352	388	36
58	Noah Hanifin	CGY	17.2	353	329	-24
59	Nick Leddy	DET	16.3	375	332	-43
60	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI	16.2	378	342	-36
61	Brandon Montour	FLA	15.8	383	418	35
62	Jacob Trouba	NYR	14.8	391	405	14
63	Alexander Romanov	MON	14.2	397	393	-4
64	Nils Lundkvist	NYR	14.2	398	367	-31
65	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	14.1	400	397	-3

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

Cam Fowler	ANA	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA
Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Will Butcher	BUF	Jake Bean	CBJ
Ethan Bear	CAR	Oliver Kylington	CGY
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Erik Gustafsson	CHI	David Farrance	NSH
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Noah Dobson	NYI
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Mike Matheson	PIT
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Scott Perunovich	STL	Travis Dermott	TOR
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Dmitry Orlov	WAS	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Nate Schmidt	WPG

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	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Conor Timmins	ARI	Colin Miller	BUF
Mike Reilly	BOS	Owen Power	BUF
Esa Lindell	DAL	Brett Pesce	CAR
Kale Clague	LAK	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
P.K. Subban	NJD	Ryan Suter	DAL
Robin Salo	NYI	Philip Broberg	EDM
Cameron York	PHI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Ryan Graves	NJD
Mark Giordano	SEA	Luke Hughes	NJD
Justin Faulk	STL	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Artem Zub	OTT
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	John Marino	PIT
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Alec Martinez	VGK
Justin Schultz	WAS	Ville Heinola	WPG

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	ALEX LAFERRIERE	L.A

Top Goalie Profile Views

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

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	CBJ Players
	21.1	KIRILL MARCHENKO ISAC LUNDESTROM ADAM FANTILLI
	20.1	COLE SILLINGER CONOR GARLAND CHARLIE COYLE
	14.0	MASON MARCHMENT BOONE JENNER DANTON HEINEN

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