Here are the top 50 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – July edition!

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	July	June	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	172.5	16	15	-1
2	Erik Karlsson	SJS	139.5	36	35	-1
3	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	138.1	37	36	-1
4	Adam Fox	NYR	134.2	39	38	-1
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	125.2	43	42	-1
6	Roman Josi	NSH	117.4	56	55	-1
7	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	113.1	63	64	1
8	Josh Morrissey	WPG	111.9	65	63	-2
9	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	110.2	67	66	-1
10	Evan Bouchard	EDM	93.8	88	88	0
11	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	92.0	93	93	0
12	Shea Theodore	VGK	90.8	94	95	1
13	Brandon Montour	FLA	90.4	97	79	-18
14	Thomas Chabot	OTT	89.8	98	97	-1
15	Victor Hedman	TBL	88.9	99	99	0
16	Moritz Seider	DET	88.9	100	100	0
17	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	82.7	112	109	-3
18	Morgan Rielly	TOR	81.3	115	105	-10
19	Vince Dunn	SEA	80.9	119	119	0
20	John Carlson	WAS	79.8	122	121	-1
21	Devon Toews	COL	78.8	126	120	-6
22	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	77.2	130	128	-2
23	Zach Werenski	CBJ	71.6	141	141	0
24	Noah Dobson	NYI	68.9	145	146	1
25	Jakob Chychrun	OTT	66.9	149	147	-2
26	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	64.3	157	156	-1
27	Drew Doughty	LAK	60.5	174	171	-3
28	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	55.4	183	179	-4
29	Brent Burns	CAR	50.6	194	193	-1
30	Bowen Byram	COL	50.6	195	185	-10
31	Calen Addison	MIN	48.9	198	195	-3
32	Darnell Nurse	EDM	48.8	199	196	-3
33	Kris Letang	PIT	47.1	204	201	-3
34	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	42.9	218	217	-1
35	Samuel Girard	COL	40.2	229	219	-10
36	Shayne Gostisbehere	DET	40.0	230	215	-15
37	Seth Jones	CHI	39.6	233	229	-4
38	Hampus Lindholm	BOS	39.1	235	224	-11
39	Owen Power	BUF	37.8	240	238	-2
40	Filip Hronek	VAN	37.5	242	239	-3
41	Noah Hanifin	CGY	36.6	247	235	-12
42	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	36.5	248	243	-5
43	Tyson Barrie	NSH	36.0	250	245	-5
44	Juuso Valimaki	ARI	35.2	254	249	-5
45	Sean Durzi	ARI	34.1	261	231	-30
46	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	34.0	262	263	1
47	Luke Hughes	NJD	33.5	265	259	-6
48	John Klingberg	TOR	32.5	271	288	17
49	Gustav Forsling	FLA	31.5	273	267	-6
50	Brandt Clarke	LAK	30.8	276	304	28
51	K’Andre Miller	NYR	30.6	278	271	-7
52	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	30.2	279	265	-14
53	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	29.8	280	328	48
54	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	28.7	282	274	-8
55	Justin Faulk	STL	27.7	287	280	-7
56	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	26.0	299	289	-10
57	Neal Pionk	WPG	26.0	300	281	-19
58	Lane Hutson	MON	25.5	301	319	18
59	David Jiricek	CBJ	25.2	304	324	20
60	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	25.1	305	299	-6
61	Damon Severson	CBJ	24.4	309	302	-7
62	Ty Smith	PIT	23.9	314	297	-17
63	Jacob Trouba	NYR	23.1	320	312	-8
64	Scott Perunovich	STL	21.9	332	327	-5
65	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	21.3	336	330	-6

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

Cam Fowler	ANA	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA
Olen Zellweger	ANA	Janis Moser	ARI
Dmitry Orlov	CAR	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	Brady Skjei	CAR
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Jordan Spence	LAK
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
Mike Matheson	MON	Jared Spurgeon	MIN
Simon Nemec	NJD	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Erik Gustafsson	NYR	Erik Brannstrom	OTT
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Torey Krug	STL
Cam York	PHI	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT

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

Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Scott Morrow	CAR
Brett Pesce	CAR	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ
Jake Bean	CBJ	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Philip Broberg	EDM
Thomas Harley	DAL	Justin Barron	MON
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	FLA	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Josh Mahura	FLA	Ryan Pulock	NYI
Zac Jones	NYR	Helge Grans	PHI
Braden Schneider	NYR	Ryan Graves	PIT
Emil Andrae	PHI	Justin Schultz	SEA
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Colton Parayko	STL
Henry Thrun	SJS	Nick Perbix	TBL
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Conor Timmins	TOR
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Matt Dumba	UFA
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Ville Heinola	WPG

UPCOMING GAMES

Mar 30 - 13:03	FLA	vs	MTL
Mar 30 - 15:03	WSH	vs	BUF
Mar 30 - 15:03	WPG	vs	VAN
Mar 30 - 16:03	CHI	vs	UTA
Mar 30 - 17:03	CAR	vs	NYI
Mar 30 - 17:03	PIT	vs	OTT
Mar 30 - 20:03	ANA	vs	TOR
Mar 30 - 22:03	L.A	vs	S.J