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

As always, players rated within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of team need (upside vs. immediate help vs. likelihood vs. track record vs. injury risk vs. age) or personal bias.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	205.1	12	10	-2
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	184.1	19	18	-1
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	133.6	38	41	3
4	Noah Dobson	NYI	132.8	40	50	10
5	Adam Fox	NYR	127.2	42	42	0
6	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	123.9	43	40	-3
7	Roman Josi	NSH	117.4	51	58	7
8	Victor Hedman	TBL	113.9	53	59	6
9	Erik Karlsson	PIT	105.0	63	75	12
10	Morgan Rielly	TOR	100.1	69	84	15
11	Josh Morrissey	WPG	96.9	76	52	-24
12	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	95.2	77	79	2
13	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	87.6	91	99	8
14	Vince Dunn	SEA	83.1	99	106	7
15	Filip Hronek	VAN	74.5	114	104	-10
16	Devon Toews	COL	74.2	116	125	9
17	Shea Theodore	VGK	73.4	118	110	-8
18	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	72.2	120	95	-25
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	67.8	123	122	-1
20	Moritz Seider	DET	66.0	128	113	-15
21	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	64.8	133	120	-13
22	Luke Hughes	NJD	63.9	139	154	15
23	John Carlson	WAS	62.6	140	150	10
24	Jakob Chychrun	OTT	62.2	141	121	-20
25	Thomas Chabot	OTT	55.1	149	149	0
26	Drew Doughty	LAK	54.7	151	145	-6
27	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	46.1	171	192	21
28	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	45.2	175	161	-14
29	Kris Letang	PIT	44.8	178	178	0
30	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	44.2	179	175	-4
31	Brock Faber	MIN	44.2	180	338	158
32	Shayne Gostisbehere	DET	44.1	181	155	-26
33	Sean Durzi	ARI	43.3	185	190	5
34	Mike Matheson	MON	39.9	202	207	5
35	Simon Nemec	NJD	38.5	204	231	27
36	Bowen Byram	COL	38.1	207	213	6
37	Brandon Montour	FLA	35.5	219	134	-85
38	Brady Skjei	CAR	33.9	225	246	21
39	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	33.5	228	232	4
40	Thomas Harley	DAL	33.1	232	403	171
41	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	31.7	237	230	-7
42	Brandt Clarke	LAK	31.1	241	249	8
43	Jake Sanderson	OTT	30.6	245	204	-41
44	Brent Burns	CAR	30.5	246	236	-10
45	David Jiricek	CBJ	30.2	249	254	5
46	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	30.2	250	189	-61
47	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	29.8	251	257	6
48	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	29.8	252	273	21
49	Travis Sanheim	PHI	29.3	256	256	0
50	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	28.9	259	235	-24
51	Darnell Nurse	EDM	28.1	263	245	-18
52	Calen Addison	SJS	28.1	265	255	-10
53	Noah Hanifin	CGY	27.6	269	274	5
54	Owen Power	BUF	26.1	274	268	-6
55	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	26.0	275	277	2
56	Seth Jones	CHI	26.0	276	239	-37
57	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	24.3	284	286	2
58	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	23.2	292	234	-58
59	Lane Hutson	MON	22.5	294	300	6
60	Samuel Girard	COL	21.9	300	307	7
61	Gustav Forsling	FLA	21.0	309	312	3
62	Scott Perunovich	STL	20.9	310	317	7
63	Erik Gustafsson	NYR	20.7	313	271	-42
64	Olen Zellweger	ANA	19.9	321	327	6
65	Cam Fowler	ANA	19.4	325	296	-29

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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Juuso Valimaki	ARI	J.J. Moser	ARI
Hampus Lindholm	BOS	Damon Severson	CBJ
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Jake Walman	DET
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	FLA	Tyson Barrie	NSH
Jordan Spence	LAK	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Erik Brannstrom	OTT
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Cam York	PHI
Jacob Trouba	NYR	Emil Andrae	PHI
Ty Smith	PIT	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Justin Faulk	STL	John Klingberg	TOR
Rasmus Sandin	WAS	Nicolas Hague	VGK
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

Oliver Kylington	CGY	Jackson Lacombe	ANA
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Michael Kesselring	ARI
Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK	Dmitri Simashev	ARI
Justin Barron	MON	Scott Morrow	CAR
John Marino	NJD	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Jake Bean	CBJ
Zac Jones	NYR	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ
Braden Schneider	NYR	Adam Boqvist	CBJ
Ryker Evans	SEA	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Henry Thrun	SJS	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Torey Krug	STL	Philip Broberg	EDM
Nick Perbix	TBL	Egor Zamula	PHI
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Helge Grans	PHI
Lukas Cormier	VGK	Colton Parayko	STL
Ville Heinola	WPG	Conor Timmins	TOR