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

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Dobber’s Note: In hindsight, I needed to go through my template based on next season and ahead, putting 2022-23 behind us. But I had already completed the work when I realized this. So the rankings reflect the player’s value for the final two weeks (and now just few days) of this season, as if it would help teams going for it this year when it is probably too late. My mistake. What is the impact of this? Well, Erik Karlsson takes over top spot – his 34-point lead over Cale Makar makes him too valuable for this season. And if he can get 100 points now, he can certainly do it again next year.

The May rankings will reflect next season and onward. This season’s inflated (or deflated) numbers for some players will be adjusted.

As always, players ranked between +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value (when considering needs for this season, too).

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Apr	Mar	Change
1	Erik Karlsson	SJS	162.0	17	29	12
2	Cale Makar	COL	157.4	19	20	1
3	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	137.6	31	23	-8
4	Adam Fox	NYR	135.2	33	34	1
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	126.0	40	44	4
6	Roman Josi	NSH	119.4	48	43	-5
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	118.1	50	47	-3
8	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	113.8	56	62	6
9	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	107.0	62	89	27
10	Brandon Montour	FLA	104.3	68	106	38
11	Vince Dunn	SEA	84.0	91	173	82
12	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	82.6	94	108	14
13	Victor Hedman	TBL	77.5	101	87	-14
14	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	77.1	103	94	-9
15	Morgan Rielly	TOR	74.6	111	110	-1
16	Thomas Chabot	OTT	73.9	112	95	-17
17	Devon Toews	COL	70.7	115	117	2
18	Shea Theodore	VGK	68.9	122	107	-15
19	Evan Bouchard	EDM	66.7	128	155	27
20	Moritz Seider	DET	64.3	133	136	3
21	Drew Doughty	LAK	64.3	134	137	3
22	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	63.7	136	119	-17
23	Brent Burns	CAR	60.2	145	146	1
24	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	55.2	151	154	3
25	Tyson Barrie	NSH	54.8	152	149	-3
26	Noah Dobson	NYI	54.1	155	151	-4
27	Jakob Chychrun	OTT	53.9	156	153	-3
28	John Carlson	WAS	51.9	164	157	-7
29	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	51.9	165	167	2
30	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	50.5	174	200	26
31	Hampus Lindholm	BOS	46.2	189	192	3
32	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	44.4	191	191	0
33	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.8	194	198	4
34	Zach Werenski	CBJ	40.2	202	206	4
35	Bowen Byram	COL	39.6	203	216	13
36	Kris Letang	PIT	39.5	204	197	-7
37	Filip Hronek	VAN	38.4	205	163	-42
38	Calen Addison	MIN	36.4	208	184	-24
39	K’Andre Miller	NYR	34.1	215	231	16
40	Samuel Girard	COL	33.3	218	239	21
41	Sean Durzi	LAK	32.6	223	219	-4
42	Gustav Forsling	FLA	31.8	226	213	-13
43	Justin Faulk	STL	31.2	232	262	30
44	Seth Jones	CHI	30.5	235	199	-36
45	Erik Gustafsson	TOR	28.0	247	222	-25
46	Owen Power	BUF	27.8	248	258	10
47	Noah Hanifin	CGY	26.4	254	251	-3
48	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	26.1	255	263	8
49	Ivan Provorov	PHI	25.0	266	252	-14
50	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	24.2	276	286	10
51	Dmitry Orlov	BOS	23.2	281	303	22
52	David Jiricek	CBJ	22.0	289	477	188
53	Cam Fowler	ANA	21.9	291	301	10
54	John Klingberg	MIN	21.9	292	320	28
55	Neal Pionk	WPG	21.7	293	287	-6
56	Juuso Valimaki	ARI	21.3	294	364	70
57	Simon Nemec	NJD	19.5	307	317	10
58	Ty Smith	PIT	19.1	312	322	10
59	Brady Skjei	CAR	19.0	313	368	55
60	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	19.0	316	309	-7
61	Scott Perunovich	STL	18.9	318	324	6
62	Jacob Trouba	NYR	18.2	325	330	5
63	Damon Severson	NJD	17.0	336	365	29
64	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	16.1	352	352	0
65	Olen Zellweger	ANA	15.5	359	359	0

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

Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Brandt Clarke	LAK
Jordan Spence	LAK	Cam York	PHI
Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Mike Matheson	MON	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Luke Hughes	NJD	Jake Bean	CBJ
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Janis Moser	ARI
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Jared Spurgeon	MIN
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Matt Dumba	MIN
Justin Schultz	SEA	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Torey Krug	STL

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

Robin Salo	NYI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Brett Pesce	CAR	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA
Alexander Nikishin	CAR	Scott Morrow	CAR
Ryan Merkley	COL	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ
Josh Mahura	FLA	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Ryan Graves	NJD	Thomas Harley	DAL
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Esa Lindell	DAL
Zac Jones	NYR	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Braden Schneider	NYR	Philip Broberg	EDM
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Yegor Zamula	PHI	Justin Barron	MON
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Colton Parayko	STL
Ethan Bear	VAN	Erik Cernak	TBL
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	Nick Perbix	TBL
Nicolas Hague	VGK	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

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	JACKSON LACOMBE	ANA
	LANE HUTSON	MTL
	PATRIK LAINE	MTL
	SHANE PINTO	OTT
	JONATHAN HUBERDEAU	CGY

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	MACKENZIE BLACKWOOD	COL
	SPENCER KNIGHT	FLA
	DAVID RITTICH	L.A
	LUKAS DOSTAL	ANA
	JACOB MARKSTROM	N.J

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	BOS Players
	22.7	PAVEL ZACHA DAVID PASTRNAK MORGAN GEEKIE
	18.8	BRAD MARCHAND ELIAS LINDHOLM CHARLIE COYLE
	17.5	COLE KOEPKE MARK KASTELIC JOHN BEECHER

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