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

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As always, players ranked within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of your keeper team’s needs (immediate help vs long-term upside) or personal preference.

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Dec	Nov	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	206.0	10	20	10
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	170.4	20	41	21
3	Adam Fox	NYR	138.4	35	39	4
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	136.9	36	34	-2
5	Evan Bouchard	EDM	127.6	42	73	31
6	Erik Karlsson	PIT	123.6	45	38	-7
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	111.9	55	61	6
8	Roman Josi	NSH	110.4	59	50	-9
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	109.6	61	97	36
10	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	99.4	75	78	3
11	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	94.7	83	62	-21
12	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	91.4	92	88	-4
13	Shea Theodore	VGK	90.4	95	114	19
14	Filip Hronek	VAN	89.2	97	198	101
15	Moritz Seider	DET	88.6	98	115	17
16	Noah Dobson	NYI	86.7	101	127	26
17	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	84.5	105	79	-26
18	Morgan Rielly	TOR	81.8	112	144	32
19	Vince Dunn	SEA	78.2	119	124	5
20	Devon Toews	COL	74.8	125	111	-14
21	Brandon Montour	FLA	73.6	129	84	-45
22	Zach Werenski	CBJ	71.6	135	139	4
23	John Carlson	WAS	71.0	137	119	-18
24	Jakob Chychrun	OTT	67.9	144	172	28
25	Drew Doughty	LAK	63.1	153	155	2
26	Thomas Chabot	OTT	59.5	159	123	-36
27	Shayne Gostisbehere	DET	57.7	162	244	82
28	Luke Hughes	NJD	55.9	169	206	37
29	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	55.1	171	159	-12
30	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	53.5	178	154	-24
31	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	51.6	180	249	69
32	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	48.7	183	185	2
33	Jake Sanderson	OTT	46.4	189	337	148
34	Seth Jones	CHI	43.7	203	184	-19
35	Bowen Byram	COL	41.8	206	216	10
36	Calen Addison	SJS	41.1	210	183	-27
37	Kris Letang	PIT	40.9	213	204	-9
38	Owen Power	BUF	40.3	216	226	10
39	Mike Matheson	MON	39.1	220	360	140
40	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	39.0	222	205	-17
41	Sean Durzi	ARI	38.0	228	248	20
42	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	35.6	234	241	7
43	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	35.4	235	279	44
44	Brent Burns	CAR	35.0	238	180	-58
45	Darnell Nurse	EDM	34.3	241	230	-11
46	Noah Hanifin	CGY	31.4	249	257	8
47	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	31.4	250	308	58
48	Brandt Clarke	LAK	31.1	251	260	9
49	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	30.8	254	269	15
50	David Jiricek	CBJ	30.2	258	267	9
51	Erik Gustafsson	NYR	29.4	265	469	204
52	Cam Fowler	ANA	29.4	266	263	-3
53	Brady Skjei	CAR	29.1	268	396	128
54	K’Andre Miller	NYR	28.9	269	235	-34
55	Juuso Valimaki	ARI	28.7	271	259	-12
56	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	27.8	275	232	-43
57	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	26.7	282	288	6
58	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	26.0	291	296	5
59	Tyson Barrie	NSH	25.2	298	273	-25
60	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	24.3	302	306	4
61	Jordan Spence	LAK	23.6	312	413	101
62	Lane Hutson	MON	22.5	318	318	0
63	Samuel Girard	COL	22.0	322	246	-76
64	John Klingberg	TOR	21.6	325	210	-115
65	Gustav Forsling	FLA	21.5	326	256	-70

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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Olen Zellweger	ANA	J.J. Moser	ARI
Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Damon Severson	CBJ
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Simon Nemec	NJD	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	FLA
Jacob Trouba	NYR	Mikey Anderson	LAK
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
Cam York	PHI	John Marino	NJD
Ty Smith	PIT	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Justin Faulk	STL	Erik Brannstrom	OTT
Scott Perunovich	STL	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Neal Pionk	WPG

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

Thomas Harley	DAL	Jackson Lacombe	ANA
Justin Barron	MON	Dmitri Simashev	ARI
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Ian Mitchell	BOS
Alexandre Carrier	NSH	Scott Morrow	CAR
Zac Jones	NYR	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Braden Schneider	NYR	Jake Bean	CBJ
Emil Andrae	PHI	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Ryker Evans	SEA	Philip Broberg	EDM
Justin Schultz	SEA	Jonas Brodin	MIN
Henry Thrun	SJS	Jared Spurgeon	MIN
Torey Krug	STL	Carson Lambos	MIN
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Brock Faber	MIN
Lukas Cormier	VGK	Egor Zamula	PHI
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Nick Perbix	TBL
Ville Heinola	WPG	Conor Timmins	TOR

UPCOMING GAMES

Apr 11 - 19:04	N.J	vs	PIT
Apr 11 - 19:04	OTT	vs	MTL
Apr 11 - 19:04	T.B	vs	DET
Apr 11 - 21:04	EDM	vs	S.J
Apr 11 - 22:04	CGY	vs	MIN