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

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Oct	Sep	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	178.0	18	18	0
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	168.7	19	19	0
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	160.5	22	22	0
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	135.3	36	36	0
5	Adam Fox	NYR	132.7	39	39	0
6	Roman Josi	NSH	123.4	43	44	1
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	116.1	52	52	0
8	Noah Dobson	NYI	116.0	53	53	0
9	Erik Karlsson	PIT	111.2	61	59	-2
10	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	103.4	69	69	0
11	Victor Hedman	TBL	101.2	73	72	-1
12	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	92.6	87	84	-3
13	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	85.0	98	98	0
14	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	83.5	100	100	0
15	Morgan Rielly	TOR	83.1	102	101	-1
16	Shea Theodore	VGK	82.0	103	108	5
17	Zach Werenski	CBJ	78.3	113	113	0
18	Moritz Seider	DET	72.9	129	127	-2
19	Devon Toews	COL	70.5	133	132	-1
20	Vince Dunn	SEA	68.3	138	136	-2
21	Luke Hughes	NJD	65.1	143	142	-1
22	Filip Hronek	VAN	63.5	146	146	0
23	Brandon Montour	SEA	58.3	153	156	3
24	Jake Sanderson	OTT	57.7	156	158	2
25	Noah Hanifin	VGK	55.4	163	164	1
26	John Carlson	WAS	54.7	165	167	2
27	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	52.8	174	176	2
28	Bowen Byram	BUF	49.2	180	181	1
29	Thomas Chabot	OTT	49.0	183	185	2
30	Brandt Clarke	LAK	49.0	184	206	22
31	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	48.5	187	200	13
32	Lane Hutson	MON	45.8	193	277	84
33	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	45.2	198	195	-3
34	Mike Matheson	MON	45.2	199	196	-3
35	Brock Faber	MIN	43.6	203	203	0
36	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	43.1	205	205	0
37	Seth Jones	CHI	41.5	213	217	4
38	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	40.9	215	212	-3
39	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	220	220	0
40	Owen Power	BUF	36.9	223	223	0
41	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	36.1	226	226	0
42	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	35.8	228	228	0
43	Kris Letang	PIT	35.4	230	232	2
44	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	232	233	1
45	Drew Doughty	LAK	34.4	236	154	-82
46	Thomas Harley	DAL	34.3	238	239	1
47	David Jiricek	CBJ	31.6	245	249	4
48	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	31.4	246	250	4
49	Justin Faulk	STL	30.4	252	274	22
50	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	254	258	4
51	Olen Zellweger	ANA	29.3	259	263	4
52	Gustav Forsling	FLA	29.2	261	264	3
53	Sean Durzi	UTA	29.0	262	240	-22
54	K’Andre Miller	NYR	28.7	263	266	3
55	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	272	272	0
56	Darnell Nurse	EDM	27.1	276	265	-11
57	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	26.5	278	279	1
58	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	284	284	0
59	Scott Perunovich	STL	25.4	288	287	-1
60	Brady Skjei	NSH	24.2	296	296	0
61	Cam Fowler	ANA	23.5	300	300	0
62	Travis Sanheim	PHI	22.5	308	307	-1
63	Zeev Buium	MIN	22.4	309	308	-1
64	Darren Raddysh	TBL	22.4	310	309	-1
65	Mattias Ekholm	EDM	21.2	317	318	1

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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Hampus Lindholm	BOS	Oliver Kylington	COL
Brent Burns	CAR	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Jaccob Slavin	CAR	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Ivan Provorov	CBJ	Logan Mailloux	MON
Damon Severson	CBJ	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Samuel Girard	COL	Jacob Trouba	NYR
Jordan Spence	LAK	Emil Andrae	PHI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Ryker Evans	SEA
Seamus Casey	NJD	Philip Broberg	STL
Cam York	PHI	J.J. Moser	TBL
Erik Brannstrom	VAN	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Rasmus Sandin	WAS	Lukas Cormier	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

Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Jackson Lacombe	ANA
Scott Morrow	CAR	Mason Lohrei	BOS
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Ian Mitchell	BOS
Justin Barron	MON	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Alexandre Carrier	NSH	Jake Bean	CGY
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Braden Schneider	NYR	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Henry Thrun	SJS	Erik Gustafsson	DET
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	STL	Adam Boqvist	FLA
Nick Perbix	TBL	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Zac Jones	NYR
Topi Niemela	TOR	Egor Zamula	PHI
Juuso Valimaki	UTA	Jake Walman	SJS
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dmitri Simashev	UTA

UPCOMING GAMES

Oct 17 - 19:10	WSH	vs	DAL
Oct 17 - 19:10	T.B	vs	VGK
Oct 17 - 19:10	OTT	vs	N.J
Oct 17 - 19:10	CBJ	vs	BUF
Oct 17 - 19:10	MTL	vs	L.A
Oct 17 - 19:10	FLA	vs	VAN
Oct 17 - 19:10	DET	vs	NYR
Oct 17 - 20:10	NSH	vs	EDM
Oct 17 - 20:10	STL	vs	NYI
Oct 17 - 20:10	CHI	vs	S.J
Oct 17 - 22:10	SEA	vs	PHI