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

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May and June are generally my “mess around with this list” months. I go through all the players and adjust just by eyeballing them. All the injured players get reset for next season. All the overachievers get brought back down to earth. All the underachievers get a bit of a boost. Young players generally get an uptick while the aging vets get a knock downward. I don’t dive into each player for hours – they each get about a minute, and I go with my gut. The July/August rankings are where every player get fully audited thanks to the in-depth analysis that the Fantasy Guide requires.

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

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	May	April	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	163.0	16	18	2
2	Roman Josi	NSH	128.2	35	19	-16
3	Adam Fox	NYR	127.8	36	33	-3
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	111.3	49	41	-8
5	John Carlson	WAS	104.1	58	53	-5
6	Morgan Rielly	TOR	103.7	59	46	-13
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	98.3	68	65	-3
8	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	92.4	79	70	-9
9	Shea Theodore	VGK	85.9	95	120	25
10	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	83.2	101	103	2
11	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	78.3	108	100	-8
12	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	77.4	109	101	-8
13	Moritz Seider	DET	75.9	112	110	-2
14	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	73.7	115	135	20
15	Thomas Chabot	OTT	73.4	116	121	5
16	Seth Jones	CHI	72.2	121	113	-8
17	Kris Letang	PIT	68.2	133	84	-49
18	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	67.3	136	144	8
19	Devon Toews	COL	65.8	141	91	-50
20	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	143	125	-18
21	John Klingberg	DAL	62.5	148	139	-9
22	Torey Krug	STL	57.7	159	142	-17
23	Drew Doughty	LAK	54.6	168	178	10
24	Erik Karlsson	SJS	52.3	176	177	1
25	Evan Bouchard	EDM	51.6	180	169	-11
26	Samuel Girard	COL	47.7	191	212	21
27	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	46.3	199	171	-28
28	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	43.3	206	183	-23
29	Noah Dobson	NYI	42.6	208	187	-21
30	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.1	211	210	-1
31	Tyson Barrie	EDM	41.9	213	176	-37
32	Filip Hronek	DET	41.4	215	199	-16
33	Neal Pionk	WPG	41.1	217	253	36
34	Noah Hanifin	CGY	39.8	220	238	18
35	Ivan Provorov	PHI	37.4	225	259	34
36	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	36.3	231	335	104
37	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	36.1	234	201	-33
38	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	35.0	237	280	43
39	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	35.0	238	184	-54
40	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	33.7	244	208	-36
41	Brent Burns	SJS	33.3	247	161	-86
42	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	31.4	257	250	-7
43	Josh Morrissey	WPG	31.0	258	275	17
44	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	29.8	263	204	-59
45	Jacob Trouba	NYR	29.6	264	230	-34
46	Bowen Byram	COL	29.1	266	277	11
47	Damon Severson	NJD	28.6	269	217	-52
48	Matt Dumba	MIN	27.9	274	270	-4
49	Scott Perunovich	STL	27.8	276	257	-19
50	Owen Power	BUF	26.1	285	375	90
51	Gustav Forsling	FLA	25.9	287	266	-21
52	Brandon Montour	FLA	23.3	298	300	2
53	Vince Dunn	SEA	21.6	313	378	65
54	Ryan Merkley	SJS	21.4	316	306	-10
55	Sean Durzi	LAK	19.9	329	424	95
56	Justin Faulk	STL	19.7	332	338	6
57	Ryan Ellis	PHI	19.4	336	454	118
58	Travis Sanheim	PHI	18.6	346	383	37
59	Ty Smith	NJD	18.6	347	340	-7
60	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	18.5	349	299	-50
61	Jonas Brodin	MIN	17.4	365	382	17
62	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.9	373	288	-85
63	Oliver Kylington	CGY	15.8	390	367	-23
64	Braden Schneider	NYR	15.5	395	503	108
65	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	15.0	402	386	-16

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
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Ethan Bear	CAR
Jake Bean	CBJ	Brady Skjei	CAR
Jordan Spence	LAK	Brett Pesce	CAR
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Alexander Romanov	MON
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Cameron York	PHI
Colton Parayko	STL	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Jake Muzzin	TOR
Mike Matheson	PIT	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Rasmus Sandin	TOR	Nate Schmidt	WPG
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN

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	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA
Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Janis Moser	ARI
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Ryan Graves	NJD	Mattias Samuelsson	BUF
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Caleb Jones	CHI
David Farrance	NSH	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Robin Salo	NYI	Max Gildon	FLA
Zachary Jones	NYR	Alex Goligoski	MIN
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Justin Barron	MON
Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Jeff Petry	MON
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Luke Hughes	NJD
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	John Marino	PIT
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Dmitry Orlov	WAS	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

Nov 17 - 17:11	CAR	vs	STL
Nov 17 - 20:11	VGK	vs	WSH
Nov 17 - 21:11	SEA	vs	NYR
Nov 17 - 22:11	VAN	vs	NSH

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	OLEN ZELLWEGER	ANA
	JACKSON BLAKE	CAR
	JONATHAN LEKKERIMAKI	VAN
	WYATT JOHNSTON	DAL
	VALERI NICHUSHKIN	COL

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	ARTURS SILOVS	VAN
	SPENCER MARTIN	CAR
	ANDREI VASILEVSKIY	T.B
	CONNOR HELLEBUYCK	WPG
	STUART SKINNER	EDM

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	VAN Players
	22.4	KIEFER SHERWOOD ELIAS PETTERSSON JAKE DEBRUSK
	18.2	DAKOTA JOSHUA CONOR GARLAND TEDDY BLUEGER
	14.9	AATU RATY NILS HOGLANDER DANTON HEINEN

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