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

As always, defensemen rated within +/-5.0 of each other should be considered equal, which is why I put them in groups as we get further down.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	138.2	23	29	6
2	Adam Fox	NYR	132.8	26	24	-2
3	Victor Hedman	TBL	113.1	39	38	-1
4	Roman Josi	NSH	109.2	43	51	8
5	John Carlson	WAS	108.9	44	37	-7
6	Morgan Rielly	TOR	100.6	53	58	5
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	95.6	64	52	-12
8	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	90.4	68	85	17
9	Devon Toews	COL	87.6	76	136	60
10	Shea Theodore	VGK	87.2	80	83	3
11	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	83.7	89	94	5
12	Kris Letang	PIT	81.5	94	120	26
13	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.5	107	105	-2
14	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	74.0	108	137	29
15	Seth Jones	CHI	72.0	114	116	2
16	Thomas Chabot	OTT	71.9	115	117	2
17	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	71.3	116	118	2
18	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	66.1	127	111	-16
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	128	125	-3
20	Torey Krug	STL	63.8	130	131	1
21	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	61.6	139	138	-1
22	Drew Doughty	LAK	61.2	140	163	23
23	Moritz Seider	DET	61.1	141	183	42
24	John Klingberg	DAL	55.9	150	151	1
25	Erik Karlsson	SJS	54.9	153	154	1
26	Samuel Girard	COL	54.6	156	162	6
27	Evan Bouchard	EDM	54.2	157	203	46
28	Brent Burns	SJS	42.4	182	214	32
29	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.1	184	179	-5
30	Tyson Barrie	EDM	41.9	188	109	-79
31	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	39.9	195	190	-5
32	Neal Pionk	WPG	39.3	198	188	-10
33	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	36.7	209	224	15
34	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	35.3	218	232	14
35	Filip Hronek	DET	35.0	220	225	5
36	Ivan Provorov	PHI	34.9	221	220	-1
37	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	34.6	223	213	-10
38	Matt Dumba	MIN	31.5	234	233	-1
39	Gustav Forsling	FLA	30.2	238	281	43
40	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	28.9	243	276	33
41	Jacob Trouba	NYR	28.7	244	290	46
42	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	28.1	249	257	8
43	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	27.4	254	242	-12
44	Ryan Ellis	PHI	26.8	258	237	-21
45	Damon Severson	NJD	24.5	270	383	113
46	Oliver Kylington	CGY	23.8	273	260	-13
47	Brandon Montour	FLA	23.7	275	271	-4
48	Noah Dobson	NYI	21.9	291	295	4
49	Josh Morrissey	WPG	20.8	302	280	-22
50	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	306	311	5
51	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	20.1	310	317	7
52	Jonas Brodin	MIN	19.6	317	376	59
53	Cam Fowler	ANA	19.4	319	328	9
54	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA	19.2	322	384	62
55	Ty Smith	NJD	18.6	331	318	-13
56	Alex Goligoski	MIN	18.5	332	407	75
57	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	18.4	335	327	-8
58	Nate Schmidt	WPG	17.4	355	320	-35
59	Bowen Byram	COL	17.3	358	278	-80
60	Noah Hanifin	CGY	17.2	360	399	39
61	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	15.7	387	371	-16
62	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.6	389	388	-1
63	Vince Dunn	SEA	15.4	391	391	0
64	Colton Parayko	STL	14.8	399	357	-42
65	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	13.6	409	433	24

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

Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Brady Skjei	CAR
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Jake Bean	CBJ
Brett Pesce	CAR	Erik Gustafsson	CHI
Ethan Bear	CAR	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Sean Durzi	LAK
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	P.K. Subban	NJD
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	David Farrance	NSH
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Ryan Pulock	NYI
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Mike Matheson	PIT	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Scott Perunovich	STL	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Justin Faulk	STL	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
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

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Josh Mahura	ANA	Conor Timmins	ARI
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Mike Reilly	BOS
Esa Lindell	DAL	Owen Power	BUF
Alexander Romanov	MON	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Kale Clague	MON	Justin Barron	COL
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Ryan Suter	DAL
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Nick Leddy	DET
Robin Salo	NYI	Matt Roy	LAK
Cameron York	PHI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Erik Cernak	TBL	Ryan Graves	NJD
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Jake Muzzin	TOR	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Artem Zub	OTT
Jack Rathbone	VAN	John Marino	PIT
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dylan Coghlan	VGK

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