Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – June 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. This month I adjusted the pending unrestricted free agents, plus a couple of injuries.

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	June	May	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	176.9	13	16	3
2	Adam Fox	NYR	128.4	34	36	2
3	Roman Josi	NSH	127.6	37	35	-2
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	111.3	48	49	1
5	John Carlson	WAS	104.1	58	58	0
6	Morgan Rielly	TOR	103.7	59	59	0
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	99.8	68	68	0
8	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	92.4	78	79	1
9	Shea Theodore	VGK	85.9	93	95	2
10	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	83.2	99	101	2
11	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	77.4	108	109	1
12	Devon Toews	COL	76.1	111	141	30
13	Moritz Seider	DET	75.9	112	112	0
14	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	73.7	115	115	0
15	Thomas Chabot	OTT	73.4	116	116	0
16	Seth Jones	CHI	72.2	121	121	0
17	Kris Letang	UFA	68.2	132	133	1
18	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	67.3	135	136	1
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	139	143	4
20	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	64.8	141	108	-33
21	John Klingberg	UFA	62.5	146	148	2
22	Torey Krug	STL	57.7	158	159	1
23	Drew Doughty	LAK	54.6	167	168	1
24	Erik Karlsson	SJS	52.3	174	176	2
25	Evan Bouchard	EDM	51.6	178	180	2
26	Samuel Girard	COL	47.7	190	191	1
27	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	46.3	197	199	2
28	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	43.3	204	206	2
29	Noah Dobson	NYI	42.6	207	208	1
30	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.1	210	211	1
31	Tyson Barrie	EDM	41.9	212	213	1
32	Filip Hronek	DET	41.4	215	215	0
33	Neal Pionk	WPG	41.1	217	217	0
34	Noah Hanifin	CGY	39.8	220	220	0
35	Ivan Provorov	PHI	37.4	225	225	0
36	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	36.3	232	231	-1
37	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	36.1	235	234	-1
38	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	35.0	238	237	-1
39	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	35.0	239	238	-1
40	Jacob Trouba	NYR	34.6	240	264	24
41	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	33.7	245	244	-1
42	Brent Burns	SJS	33.3	248	247	-1
43	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	31.4	257	257	0
44	Josh Morrissey	WPG	31.0	258	258	0
45	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	29.8	264	263	-1
46	Bowen Byram	COL	29.1	266	266	0
47	Damon Severson	NJD	28.6	268	269	1
48	Matt Dumba	MIN	27.9	272	274	2
49	Scott Perunovich	STL	27.8	274	276	2
50	Owen Power	BUF	26.1	285	285	0
51	Gustav Forsling	FLA	25.9	287	287	0
52	Brandon Montour	FLA	23.3	299	298	-1
53	Vince Dunn	SEA	21.6	312	313	1
54	Sean Durzi	LAK	19.9	328	329	1
55	Justin Faulk	STL	19.7	331	332	1
56	Ryan Ellis	PHI	19.4	335	336	1
57	Travis Sanheim	PHI	18.6	344	346	2
58	Ty Smith	NJD	18.6	345	347	2
59	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	18.5	347	349	2
60	Jonas Brodin	MIN	17.4	361	365	4
61	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.9	369	373	4
62	Oliver Kylington	CGY	15.8	385	390	5
63	Braden Schneider	NYR	15.5	391	395	4
64	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	15.2	398	424	26
65	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	15.0	399	402	3

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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Colton Parayko	STL	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Jake Bean	CBJ	Brady Skjei	CAR
Jordan Spence	LAK	Brett Pesce	CAR
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Cameron York	PHI
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Jake Muzzin	TOR
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Mike Matheson	PIT	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Ryan Merkley	SJS	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

Dmitry Orlov	WAS	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Josh Mahura	ANA	Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA
Esa Lindell	DAL	Janis Moser	ARI
Ryan Graves	NJD	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Ian Mitchell	CHI
David Farrance	NSH	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Robin Salo	NYI	Alex Goligoski	MIN
Zachary Jones	NYR	Justin Barron	MON
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Jeff Petry	MON
Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI	Luke Hughes	NJD
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	John Marino	PIT
Erik Cernak	TBL	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Nick Leddy	UFA
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Travis Dermott	VAN
TJ Brodie	TOR	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

Nov 14 - 19:11	NYR	vs	S.J
Nov 14 - 19:11	T.B	vs	WPG
Nov 14 - 19:11	OTT	vs	PHI
Nov 14 - 19:11	FLA	vs	N.J
Nov 14 - 19:11	BUF	vs	STL
Nov 14 - 20:11	DAL	vs	BOS
Nov 14 - 20:11	MIN	vs	MTL
Nov 14 - 21:11	EDM	vs	NSH
Nov 14 - 22:11	VAN	vs	NYI
Nov 14 - 22:11	SEA	vs	CHI