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

As always, defensemen ranked between +/-5.0 should be considered equal value. Click a player name to check out his fantasy hockey player profile page – customized for you, the fantasy owner.

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	April	March	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	154.5	18	19	1
2	Roman Josi	NSH	153.6	19	45	26
3	Adam Fox	NYR	132.0	33	27	-6
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	117.3	41	42	1
5	Morgan Rielly	TOR	109.1	46	54	8
6	John Carlson	WAS	104.0	53	52	-1
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	95.6	65	60	-5
8	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	89.7	70	63	-7
9	Kris Letang	PIT	84.7	84	83	-1
10	Devon Toews	COL	80.7	91	82	-9
11	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	77.0	100	125	25
12	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	76.7	101	68	-33
13	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.2	103	105	2
14	Moritz Seider	DET	73.2	110	95	-15
15	Seth Jones	CHI	72.3	113	117	4
16	Shea Theodore	VGK	69.8	120	84	-36
17	Thomas Chabot	OTT	69.5	121	113	-8
18	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	125	129	4
19	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	61.9	135	128	-7
20	John Klingberg	DAL	58.5	139	158	19
21	Torey Krug	STL	57.3	142	135	-7
22	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	56.9	144	132	-12
23	Brent Burns	SJS	49.1	161	164	3
24	Evan Bouchard	EDM	45.2	169	174	5
25	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	44.9	171	167	-4
26	Tyson Barrie	EDM	44.4	176	181	5
27	Erik Karlsson	SJS	44.4	177	159	-18
28	Drew Doughty	LAK	44.2	178	134	-44
29	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	41.7	183	226	43
30	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	41.5	184	188	4
31	Noah Dobson	NYI	40.0	187	211	24
32	Filip Hronek	DET	36.2	199	193	-6
33	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	36.1	201	187	-14
34	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	35.9	204	225	21
35	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	34.6	208	215	7
36	Darnell Nurse	EDM	33.1	210	212	2
37	Samuel Girard	COL	32.7	212	157	-55
38	Damon Severson	NJD	32.4	217	230	13
39	Jacob Trouba	NYR	29.4	230	257	27
40	Noah Hanifin	CGY	28.1	238	265	27
41	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	26.5	250	240	-10
42	Neal Pionk	WPG	25.8	253	213	-40
43	Scott Perunovich	STL	25.6	257	408	151
44	Ivan Provorov	PHI	25.4	259	218	-41
45	Gustav Forsling	FLA	24.6	266	256	-10
46	Matt Dumba	MIN	24.2	270	239	-31
47	Josh Morrissey	WPG	23.4	275	277	2
48	Bowen Byram	COL	23.3	277	372	95
49	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	23.0	280	241	-39
50	Cam Fowler	ANA	22.0	288	358	70
51	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	21.0	299	380	81
52	Brandon Montour	FLA	20.9	300	337	37
53	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	306	304	-2
54	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	17.9	335	307	-28
55	Justin Faulk	STL	17.7	338	342	4
56	Ty Smith	NJD	17.6	340	327	-13
57	Oliver Kylington	CGY	15.8	367	295	-72
58	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	15.7	372	378	6
59	Owen Power	BUF	15.6	375	502	127
60	Vince Dunn	SEA	15.4	378	413	35
61	Jonas Brodin	MIN	15.1	382	355	-27
62	Travis Sanheim	PHI	15.1	383	402	19
63	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	15.0	386	409	23
64	K’Andre Miller	NYR	14.0	399	517	118
65	Nate Schmidt	WPG	13.6	402	349	-53

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	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA
Brady Skjei	CAR	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Ethan Bear	CAR	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Jake Bean	CBJ
Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI	Alexander Romanov	MON
Sean Durzi	LAK	Ryan Graves	NJD
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Artem Zub	OTT
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Ryan Ellis	PHI
Mike Matheson	PIT	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Colton Parayko	STL	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Dmitry Orlov	WAS

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
Brett Pesce	CAR	Janis Moser	ARI
Alex Goligoski	MIN	Mattias Samuelsson	BUF
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Sami Niku	MON	Nick Leddy	DET
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Josh Brook	MON
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Justin Barron	MON
David Farrance	NSH	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Robin Salo	NYI	Jeff Petry	MON
Jake Sanderson	OTT	P.K. Subban	NJD
Cameron York	PHI	Luke Hughes	NJD
Erik Cernak	TBL	Braden Schneider	NYR
Jake Muzzin	TOR	John Marino	PIT
TJ Brodie	TOR	Ryan McDonagh	TBL
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Ville Heinola	WPG