Here are the Top 200 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – January edition!

As always, players ranked between +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Jan	Dec	Change
1	Adam Fox	NYR	131.7	24	33	9
2	Cale Makar	COL	124.3	29	30	1
3	John Carlson	WAS	115.8	37	36	-1
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	113.1	38	47	9
5	Roman Josi	NSH	101.2	51	51	0
6	Quinn Hughes	VAN	99.2	52	50	-2
7	Morgan Rielly	TOR	97.8	58	83	25
8	Shea Theodore	VGK	84.5	83	85	2
9	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	83.6	85	96	11
10	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	77.9	94	126	32
11	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.5	105	99	-6
12	Tyson Barrie	EDM	73.9	109	80	-29
13	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	73.6	111	70	-41
14	Seth Jones	CHI	72.0	116	106	-10
15	Thomas Chabot	OTT	71.9	117	119	2
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	71.3	118	88	-30
17	Kris Letang	PIT	70.5	120	133	13
18	Zach Werenski	CBJ	68.2	125	114	-11
19	Torey Krug	STL	63.8	131	132	1
20	Devon Toews	COL	62.2	136	204	68
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	61.4	137	145	8
22	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	61.3	138	142	4
23	John Klingberg	DAL	54.9	151	148	-3
24	Erik Karlsson	SJS	54.4	154	149	-5
25	Samuel Girard	COL	52.0	162	166	4
26	Drew Doughty	LAK	51.8	163	173	10
27	Darnell Nurse	EDM	46.0	179	152	-27
28	Moritz Seider	DET	45.5	183	184	1
29	Neal Pionk	WPG	43.2	188	181	-7
30	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	42.5	190	178	-12
31	Evan Bouchard	EDM	39.2	203	217	14
32	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	37.2	213	267	54
33	Brent Burns	SJS	36.8	214	221	7
34	Ivan Provorov	PHI	36.1	220	213	-7
35	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	35.3	224	227	3
36	Filip Hronek	DET	35.0	225	228	3
37	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	33.4	232	231	-1
38	Matt Dumba	MIN	33.3	233	232	-1
39	Ryan Ellis	PHI	32.5	237	238	1
40	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	31.1	242	263	21
41	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	28.1	257	256	-1
42	Oliver Kylington	CGY	27.6	260	281	21
43	Brandon Montour	FLA	25.6	271	293	22
44	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	24.9	276	271	-5
45	Bowen Byram	COL	24.7	278	273	-5
46	Josh Morrissey	WPG	24.5	280	276	-4
47	Gustav Forsling	FLA	24.4	281	291	10
48	Jacob Trouba	NYR	22.5	290	288	-2
49	Noah Dobson	NYI	21.9	295	455	160
50	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	311	307	-4
51	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	20.1	317	278	-39
52	Ty Smith	NJD	20.1	318	312	-6
53	Nate Schmidt	WPG	19.9	320	418	98
54	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	19.7	327	321	-6
55	Cam Fowler	ANA	19.4	328	358	30
56	Colton Parayko	STL	17.5	357	333	-24
57	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	16.7	371	369	-2
58	Jonas Brodin	MIN	16.4	376	373	-3
59	Damon Severson	NJD	15.9	383	415	32
60	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA	15.9	384	381	-3
61	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.6	388	384	-4
62	Vince Dunn	SEA	15.4	391	327	-64
63	Noah Hanifin	CGY	14.8	399	390	-9
64	Alexander Romanov	MON	14.2	405	395	-10
65	Alex Goligoski	MIN	13.9	407	510	103

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

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Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Brett Pesce	CAR	Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ
Ethan Bear	CAR	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Jake Bean	CBJ	Sean Durzi	LAK
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	Kale Clague	MON
Ryan Suter	DAL	David Farrance	NSH
P.K. Subban	NJD	Ryan Pulock	NYI
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Mike Matheson	PIT	Jake Muzzin	TOR
Scott Perunovich	STL	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Travis Dermott	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

Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Kyle Capobianco	ARI
Josh Mahura	ANA	Owen Power	BUF
Conor Timmins	ARI	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Brady Skjei	CAR	Nick Leddy	DET
Esa Lindell	DAL	Matt Roy	LAK
Jeff Petry	MON	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Ryan Graves	NJD
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Luke Hughes	NJD
Cameron York	PHI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Robin Salo	NYI
Mario Ferraro	SJS	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Justin Faulk	STL	Artem Zub	OTT
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	John Marino	PIT
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Dylan Coghlan	VGK
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 27 - 19:12	DET	vs	TOR
Dec 27 - 19:12	BUF	vs	CHI
Dec 27 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	BOS
Dec 27 - 19:12	N.J	vs	CAR
Dec 27 - 20:12	DAL	vs	MIN
Dec 27 - 20:12	STL	vs	NSH
Dec 27 - 21:12	UTA	vs	COL
Dec 27 - 22:12	S.J	vs	VGK