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

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As always, players with a rating within +/-5.0 of each other should be considered equal value.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	192.3	15	18	3
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	164.5	20	19	-1
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	152.0	25	22	-3
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	131.1	36	36	0
5	Adam Fox	NYR	130.4	37	39	2
6	Roman Josi	NSH	117.9	49	43	-6
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	116.1	53	52	-1
8	Noah Dobson	NYI	113.2	61	53	-8
9	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	102.1	70	69	-1
10	Erik Karlsson	PIT	102.0	71	61	-10
11	Victor Hedman	TBL	101.2	73	73	0
12	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	87.2	98	87	-11
13	Shea Theodore	VGK	86.0	101	103	2
14	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	85.0	104	98	-6
15	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	82.2	109	100	-9
16	Zach Werenski	CBJ	78.3	117	113	-4
17	Morgan Rielly	TOR	75.0	119	102	-17
18	Moritz Seider	DET	72.9	125	129	4
19	Luke Hughes	NJD	65.1	143	143	0
20	Jake Sanderson	OTT	63.3	145	156	11
21	John Carlson	WAS	62.8	146	165	19
22	Brandon Montour	SEA	60.9	150	153	3
23	Filip Hronek	VAN	59.6	154	146	-8
24	Brandt Clarke	LAK	59.4	155	184	29
25	Devon Toews	COL	59.0	156	133	-23
26	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	52.8	168	174	6
27	Thomas Chabot	OTT	51.5	173	183	10
28	Noah Hanifin	VGK	51.4	175	163	-12
29	Vince Dunn	SEA	51.4	176	138	-38
30	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	51.1	177	187	10
31	Bowen Byram	BUF	49.2	184	180	-4
32	Lane Hutson	MON	45.8	197	193	-4
33	Seth Jones	CHI	45.4	198	213	15
34	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	45.2	200	198	-2
35	Mike Matheson	MON	45.2	201	199	-2
36	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	44.4	205	205	0
37	Brock Faber	MIN	43.6	207	203	-4
38	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	41.0	219	228	9
39	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	40.9	220	215	-5
40	Owen Power	BUF	39.4	221	223	2
41	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	228	220	-8
42	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	35.7	233	226	-7
43	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	235	232	-3
44	Drew Doughty	LAK	34.4	240	236	-4
45	Thomas Harley	DAL	34.3	241	238	-3
46	Kris Letang	PIT	33.2	242	230	-12
47	David Jiricek	CBJ	31.6	247	245	-2
48	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	31.4	248	246	-2
49	Gustav Forsling	FLA	30.5	255	261	6
50	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	258	254	-4
51	Neal Pionk	WPG	30.0	261	364	103
52	Olen Zellweger	ANA	29.3	265	259	-6
53	Justin Faulk	STL	29.1	268	252	-16
54	K’Andre Miller	NYR	28.7	269	263	-6
55	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	274	272	-2
56	Darnell Nurse	EDM	27.1	275	276	1
57	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	26.5	279	278	-1
58	Sean Durzi	UTA	26.5	280	262	-18
59	Scott Perunovich	STL	26.1	281	288	7
60	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	285	284	-1
61	Mattias Ekholm	EDM	25.1	291	317	26
62	Brady Skjei	NSH	24.2	297	296	-1
63	Cam Fowler	ANA	23.5	302	300	-2
64	Samuel Girard	COL	22.7	310	336	26
65	Travis Sanheim	PHI	22.5	314	308	-6

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	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Damon Severson	CBJ	Logan Mailloux	MON
Jordan Spence	LAK	Jacob Trouba	NYR
Zeev Buium	MIN	Emil Andrae	PHI
Seamus Casey	NJD	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Cam York	PHI	J.J. Moser	TBL
Ryker Evans	SEA	Darren Raddysh	TBL
Jake Walman	SJS	Erik Brannstrom	VAN
Philip Broberg	STL	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Rasmus Sandin	WAS

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
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Jake Bean	CGY
Justin Barron	MON	Tyson Barrie	CGY
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Adam Boqvist	FLA
Braden Schneider	NYR	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
Henry Thrun	SJS	David Reinbacher	MON
Colton Parayko	STL	Tanner Molendyk	NSH
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	STL	Zac Jones	NYR
Nick Perbix	TBL	Egor Zamula	PHI
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Topi Niemela	TOR
Juuso Valimaki	UTA	Michael Kesselring	UTA
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dmitri Simashev	UTA

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 22 - 12:12	NYR	vs	CAR
Dec 22 - 17:12	T.B	vs	FLA
Dec 22 - 17:12	UTA	vs	ANA
Dec 22 - 17:12	WSH	vs	L.A
Dec 22 - 20:12	EDM	vs	OTT
Dec 22 - 20:12	COL	vs	SEA