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

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Players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Sep	Aug	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	166.0	14	14	0
2	Roman Josi	NSH	133.7	29	29	0
3	Adam Fox	NYR	130.1	32	32	0
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	114.6	46	46	0
5	Morgan Rielly	TOR	107.4	54	54	0
6	Quinn Hughes	VAN	106.1	56	56	0
7	John Carlson	WAS	102.9	62	62	0
8	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	90.8	79	79	0
9	Shea Theodore	VGK	85.5	87	87	0
10	Devon Toews	COL	83.8	89	89	0
11	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	81.3	97	97	0
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	77.5	105	105	0
13	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	76.6	107	107	0
14	Moritz Seider	DET	75.6	110	110	0
15	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	74.5	113	114	1
16	Kris Letang	PIT	72.4	117	118	1
17	Zach Werenski	CBJ	70.9	122	123	1
18	Evan Bouchard	EDM	68.7	130	131	1
19	Drew Doughty	LAK	58.0	150	151	1
20	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	57.8	151	152	1
21	Noah Dobson	NYI	57.7	152	153	1
22	Seth Jones	CHI	57.3	154	155	1
23	Torey Krug	STL	55.6	156	157	1
24	John Klingberg	ANA	54.4	158	159	1
25	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	49.3	171	172	1
26	Tyson Barrie	EDM	49.3	172	173	1
27	Samuel Girard	COL	44.1	189	190	1
28	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	44.1	190	191	1
29	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.1	195	195	0
30	Brent Burns	CAR	41.9	196	196	0
31	Noah Hanifin	CGY	41.2	197	197	0
32	Erik Karlsson	SJS	40.9	200	200	0
33	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	39.2	204	204	0
34	Damon Severson	NJD	38.0	208	208	0
35	Ivan Provorov	PHI	37.5	214	213	-1
36	Gustav Forsling	FLA	36.7	217	216	-1
37	Filip Hronek	DET	36.3	218	217	-1
38	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	35.5	222	221	-1
39	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	34.0	228	227	-1
40	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	33.9	229	228	-1
41	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	33.2	234	233	-1
42	Josh Morrissey	WPG	33.2	236	235	-1
43	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	29.1	254	254	0
44	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	29.0	255	255	0
45	Bowen Byram	COL	28.3	260	260	0
46	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	28.1	261	261	0
47	Scott Perunovich	STL	27.2	268	268	0
48	Neal Pionk	WPG	26.6	273	273	0
49	Jacob Trouba	NYR	25.3	277	278	1
50	Owen Power	BUF	23.2	289	289	0
51	Vince Dunn	SEA	21.5	306	306	0
52	Ty Smith	PIT	20.2	316	316	0
53	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	19.9	319	319	0
54	Simon Nemec	NJD	19.5	324	325	1
55	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	19.2	330	331	1
56	Matt Dumba	MIN	18.9	333	334	1
57	Justin Faulk	STL	18.9	334	335	1
58	Mike Matheson	MON	18.5	342	342	0
59	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	18.4	345	345	0
60	Brandon Montour	FLA	17.5	355	355	0
61	Colton Parayko	STL	17.3	357	357	0
62	Jeff Petry	PIT	17.3	358	358	0
63	Brady Skjei	CAR	16.4	371	370	-1
64	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.3	372	371	-1
65	Travis Sanheim	PHI	15.8	382	381	-1

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

Juuso Valimaki	CGY	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Jordan Spence	LAK	Jake Bean	CBJ
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Sean Durzi	LAK
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Ryan Graves	NJD
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Alexander Romanov	NYI
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Jake Sanderson	OTT
Ryan Ellis	PHI	Cam York	PHI
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Ryan Merkley	SJS	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

Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Olen Zellweger	ANA
Jacob Bryson	BUF	Janis Moser	ARI
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
David Jiricek	CBJ	Scott Morrow	CAR
Nick Blankenburg	CBJ	Brett Pesce	CAR
Esa Lindell	DAL	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ
Matt Roy	LAK	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Luke Hughes	NJD	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Zac Jones	NYR	Philip Broberg	EDM
Brayden Schneider	NYR	Brandt Clarke	LAK
Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Yegor Zamula	PHI	Justin Barron	MON
Nick Leddy	STL	Nick Perbix	TBL
Erik Cernak	TBL	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 23 - 13:12	N.J	vs	NYR
Dec 23 - 14:12	TOR	vs	WPG
Dec 23 - 19:12	DET	vs	STL
Dec 23 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	MTL
Dec 23 - 19:12	BOS	vs	WSH
Dec 23 - 19:12	FLA	vs	T.B
Dec 23 - 19:12	PIT	vs	PHI
Dec 23 - 19:12	NYI	vs	BUF
Dec 23 - 20:12	NSH	vs	CAR
Dec 23 - 20:12	MIN	vs	CHI
Dec 23 - 21:12	UTA	vs	DAL
Dec 23 - 21:12	VAN	vs	S.J
Dec 23 - 22:12	VGK	vs	ANA