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

Players between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Dec	Nov	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	122.2	30	33	3
2	Adam Fox	NYR	117.7	33	39	6
3	John Carlson	WAS	113.0	36	35	-1
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	103.3	47	47	0
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	99.2	50	52	2
6	Roman Josi	NSH	98.5	51	56	5
7	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	87.7	70	65	-5
8	Tyson Barrie	EDM	83.8	80	72	-8
9	Morgan Rielly	TOR	83.0	83	88	5
10	Shea Theodore	VGK	81.8	85	66	-19
11	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	80.7	88	96	8
12	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	75.9	96	123	27
13	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.5	99	94	-5
14	Seth Jones	CHI	73.4	106	101	-5
15	Zach Werenski	CBJ	71.9	114	125	11
16	Thomas Chabot	OTT	68.0	119	78	-41
17	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	65.5	126	150	24
18	Torey Krug	STL	63.8	132	117	-15
19	Kris Letang	PIT	63.8	133	122	-11
20	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	57.4	142	148	6
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	56.0	145	181	36
22	John Klingberg	DAL	54.9	148	140	-8
23	Erik Karlsson	SJS	54.4	149	177	28
24	Darnell Nurse	EDM	53.3	152	162	10
25	Samuel Girard	COL	49.9	166	156	-10
26	Drew Doughty	LAK	47.8	173	198	25
27	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	46.4	178	174	-4
28	Neal Pionk	WPG	45.9	181	147	-34
29	Moritz Seider	DET	45.5	184	213	29
30	Devon Toews	COL	40.6	204	258	54
31	Ivan Provorov	PHI	38.7	213	209	-4
32	Evan Bouchard	EDM	37.9	217	218	1
33	Brent Burns	SJS	36.8	221	244	23
34	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	35.3	227	277	50
35	Filip Hronek	DET	35.0	228	225	-3
36	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	33.4	231	236	5
37	Matt Dumba	MIN	33.3	232	238	6
38	Ryan Ellis	PHI	32.5	238	262	24
39	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	28.1	256	266	10
40	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	27.4	263	275	12
41	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	25.5	267	237	-30
42	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	24.9	271	294	23
43	Bowen Byram	COL	24.7	273	339	66
44	Josh Morrissey	WPG	24.5	276	263	-13
45	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	23.7	278	247	-31
46	Oliver Kylington	CGY	23.2	281	454	173
47	Jacob Trouba	NYR	22.5	288	391	103
48	Gustav Forsling	FLA	21.9	291	302	11
49	Brandon Montour	FLA	21.8	293	383	90
50	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	307	306	-1
51	Ty Smith	NJD	20.1	312	253	-59
52	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	19.7	321	436	115
53	Vince Dunn	SEA	19.1	327	323	-4
54	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	19.1	328	324	-4
55	Colton Parayko	STL	18.7	333	331	-2
56	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.9	358	424	66
57	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	16.7	369	249	-120
58	Jonas Brodin	MIN	16.4	373	403	30
59	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA	15.9	381	451	70
60	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.6	384	400	16
61	Noah Hanifin	CGY	14.8	390	353	-37
62	Alexander Romanov	MON	14.2	395	397	2
63	Nils Lundkvist	NYR	14.2	396	398	2
64	Ryan Suter	DAL	14.2	397	520	123
65	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	13.3	406	408	2

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

Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Will Butcher	BUF	Colin Miller	BUF
Ethan Bear	CAR	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Jake Bean	CBJ	Nick Leddy	DET
Erik Gustafsson	CHI	Sean Durzi	LAK
Damon Severson	NJD	David Farrance	NSH
P.K. Subban	NJD	Noah Dobson	NYI
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Mike Matheson	PIT
Scott Perunovich	STL	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Travis Dermott	TOR	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	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Conor Timmins	ARI	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Owen Power	BUF
Kale Clague	LAK	Brett Pesce	CAR
Jeff Petry	MON	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Ryan Graves	NJD	Philip Broberg	EDM
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Brandt Clarke	LAK
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Alex Goligoski	MIN
Cameron York	PHI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Mario Ferraro	SJS	Robin Salo	NYI
Justin Faulk	STL	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Artem Zub	OTT
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	John Marino	PIT
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Ville Heinola	WPG

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	SAM BENNETT	FLA

Top Goalie Profile Views

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

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	DET Players
	11.7	JAMES VAN RIEMSDYK MARCO KASPER MICHAEL BRANDSEGG-NYGARD
	10.0	PATRICK KANE ALEX DEBRINCAT ANDREW COPP
	6.1	LUCAS RAYMOND CARTER MAZUR EMMITT FINNIE

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