Top 120 Keeper League Defensemen – February 2023

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2023-02-07

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

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As always, players rated between +/- 5.0 points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs (reliability vs. upside vs. floor, etc.) and personal bias. Click any player name to be taken to his customized fantasy hockey player profile.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	172.6	16	14	-2
2	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	148.1	25	28	3
3	Adam Fox	NYR	142.2	31	36	5
4	Erik Karlsson	SJS	134.8	36	59	23
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	124.9	46	51	5
6	Roman Josi	NSH	123.4	48	43	-5
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	114.6	63	74	11
8	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	107.9	67	94	27
9	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	90.4	87	92	5
10	Victor Hedman	TBL	88.8	90	96	6
11	Brandon Montour	FLA	80.2	102	155	53
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	79.1	103	112	9
13	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	77.0	106	98	-8
14	Shea Theodore	VGK	75.5	111	104	-7
15	Devon Toews	COL	74.7	113	113	0
16	Morgan Rielly	TOR	74.6	114	91	-23
17	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	72.9	116	118	2
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	70.8	121	133	12
19	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	67.7	128	120	-8
20	Tyson Barrie	EDM	66.5	131	130	-1
21	Filip Hronek	DET	66.4	132	115	-17
22	John Carlson	WAS	64.7	138	105	-33
23	Moritz Seider	DET	64.3	139	152	13
24	Drew Doughty	LAK	62.4	144	156	12
25	Noah Dobson	NYI	59.4	149	145	-4
26	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	59.0	152	144	-8
27	Brent Burns	CAR	56.1	157	172	15
28	Evan Bouchard	EDM	55.2	162	150	-12
29	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	53.6	167	141	-26
30	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	53.2	168	146	-22
31	Calen Addison	MIN	48.4	185	208	23
32	Gustav Forsling	FLA	44.8	192	204	12
33	Vince Dunn	SEA	42.4	198	249	51
34	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	41.6	200	185	-15
35	Seth Jones	CHI	41.3	201	209	8
36	Hampus Lindholm	BOS	41.3	202	222	20
37	Zach Werenski	CBJ	41.2	204	210	6
38	Darnell Nurse	EDM	40.8	206	205	-1
39	Kris Letang	PIT	40.5	208	233	25
40	Bowen Byram	COL	34.9	223	232	9
41	Sean Durzi	LAK	34.6	225	235	10
42	K’Andre Miller	NYR	32.6	233	384	151
43	Noah Hanifin	CGY	31.4	241	225	-16
44	Erik Gustafsson	WAS	29.6	248	257	9
45	Torey Krug	STL	29.3	251	200	-51
46	Justin Faulk	STL	29.1	253	216	-37
47	Neal Pionk	WPG	29.1	254	258	4
48	Ivan Provorov	PHI	27.7	260	265	5
49	Samuel Girard	COL	26.3	275	276	1
50	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	26.1	278	277	-1
51	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	25.2	285	280	-5
52	Owen Power	BUF	23.1	294	319	25
53	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	21.5	303	305	2
54	Simon Nemec	NJD	19.5	316	320	4
55	Ty Smith	PIT	19.1	320	328	8
56	Cam Fowler	ANA	19.0	322	358	36
57	Scott Perunovich	STL	18.9	324	297	-27
58	Jacob Trouba	NYR	18.2	330	321	-9
59	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	17.4	340	349	9
60	John Klingberg	ANA	16.2	353	298	-55
61	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	16.1	356	367	11
62	Nils Lundkvist	DAL	15.5	364	377	13
63	Olen Zellweger	ANA	15.5	367	408	41
64	Kaiden Guhle	MON	15.2	368	378	10
65	Justin Schultz	SEA	14.9	370	346	-24

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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Brady Skjei	CAR	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Janis Moser	ARI	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Juuso Valimaki	ARI	Brett Pesce	CAR
Ryan Merkley	COL	Jake Bean	CBJ
Jordan Spence	LAK	Brandt Clarke	LAK
Damon Severson	NJD	Matt Dumba	MIN
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Robin Salo	NYI
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Travis Sanheim	PHI
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Cam York	PHI
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Jeff Petry	PIT
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Colton Parayko	STL
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
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

Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ
David Jiricek	CBJ	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA
Thomas Harley	DAL	Scott Morrow	CAR
Josh Mahura	FLA	Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ
Mike Matheson	MON	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ
Luke Hughes	NJD	Ian Mitchell	CHI
John Marino	NJD	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Ryan Graves	NJD	Philip Broberg	EDM
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Matt Roy	LAK
Zac Jones	NYR	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Braden Schneider	NYR	Justin Barron	MON
Yegor Zamula	PHI	Matt Benning	SJS
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Nick Perbix	TBL
Conor Timmins	TOR	Dmitry Orlov	WAS
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

	May 15 - 19:05	WSH	vs	CAR
	May 15 - 21:05	WPG	vs	DAL

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	AUSTON MATTHEWS	TOR
	MATTHEW KNIES	TOR
	MARCO KASPER	DET
	MARCO ROSSI	MIN
	WILLIAM NYLANDER	TOR

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	STUART SKINNER	EDM
	CALVIN PICKARD	EDM
	ADIN HILL	VGK
	FREDERIK ANDERSEN	CAR
	SERGEI BOBROVSKY	FLA

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	SEA Players
	20.6	EELI TOLVANEN CHANDLER STEPHENSON JORDAN EBERLE
	19.6	JADEN SCHWARTZ KAAPO KAKKO MATTY BENIERS
	17.3	SHANE WRIGHT JARED MCCANN ANDRE BURAKOVSKY

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