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

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Dec	Nov	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	205.5	9	15	6
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	182.8	16	20	4
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	145.0	29	25	-4
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	131.1	35	36	1
5	Adam Fox	NYR	121.9	45	37	-8
6	Josh Morrissey	WPG	117.5	48	53	5
7	Roman Josi	NSH	111.7	55	49	-6
8	Victor Hedman	TBL	104.0	66	73	7
9	Noah Dobson	NYI	99.5	73	61	-12
10	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	89.8	83	70	-13
11	Shea Theodore	VGK	88.8	87	101	14
12	Zach Werenski	CBJ	88.4	89	117	28
13	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	87.2	91	98	7
14	Erik Karlsson	PIT	85.3	96	71	-25
15	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	82.3	101	104	3
16	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	76.5	110	205	95
17	Morgan Rielly	TOR	75.0	115	119	4
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	72.8	121	109	-12
19	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	64.6	134	168	34
20	Jake Sanderson	OTT	63.3	137	145	8
21	John Carlson	WAS	62.8	139	146	7
22	Moritz Seider	DET	61.7	146	125	-21
23	Brandon Montour	SEA	60.9	150	150	0
24	Luke Hughes	NJD	59.9	153	143	-10
25	Brandt Clarke	LAK	59.4	155	155	0
26	Vince Dunn	SEA	56.5	158	176	18
27	Lane Hutson	MON	53.2	163	197	34
28	Thomas Chabot	OTT	51.5	168	173	5
29	Bowen Byram	BUF	50.5	172	184	12
30	Devon Toews	COL	49.5	175	156	-19
31	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	48.3	177	220	43
32	Owen Power	BUF	43.7	192	221	29
33	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	42.8	198	200	2
34	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	39.7	205	219	14
35	Filip Hronek	VAN	39.1	206	154	-52
36	Samuel Girard	COL	38.9	209	310	101
37	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	38.4	211	177	-34
38	Seth Jones	CHI	37.6	214	198	-16
39	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	215	228	13
40	Neal Pionk	WPG	36.5	218	261	43
41	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	35.7	222	233	11
42	Jake Walman	SJS	35.4	224	368	144
43	Mike Matheson	MON	35.4	225	201	-24
44	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	228	235	7
45	Drew Doughty	LAK	34.4	232	240	8
46	Brock Faber	MIN	33.8	235	207	-28
47	Thomas Harley	DAL	33.0	238	241	3
48	Noah Hanifin	VGK	31.7	242	175	-67
49	David Jiricek	MIN	31.6	243	247	4
50	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	31.4	246	248	2
51	Travis Sanheim	PHI	30.3	251	314	63
52	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	252	258	6
53	Kris Letang	PIT	29.3	255	242	-13
54	Olen Zellweger	ANA	29.3	256	265	9
55	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	28.3	261	279	18
56	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	264	274	10
57	Damon Severson	CBJ	26.7	269	332	63
58	Gustav Forsling	FLA	26.6	271	255	-16
59	Darnell Nurse	EDM	25.8	278	275	-3
60	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	279	285	6
61	Sean Durzi	UTA	24.9	283	280	-3
62	Scott Perunovich	STL	23.8	291	281	-10
63	Zeev Buium	MIN	22.4	302	315	13
64	Philip Broberg	STL	22.4	303	338	35
65	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	22.1	305	342	37

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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Cam Fowler	ANA	Jacob Trouba	ANA
Hampus Lindholm	BOS	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Ivan Provorov	CBJ	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Oliver Kylington	COL	Jordan Spence	LAK
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Logan Mailloux	MON
Brady Skjei	NSH	Seamus Casey	NJD
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Braden Schneider	NYR
Cam York	PHI	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Ryker Evans	SEA	Colton Parayko	STL
Justin Faulk	STL	Darren Raddysh	TBL
J.J. Moser	TBL	Erik Brannstrom	VAN
Michael Kesselring	UTA

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
Dante Fabbro	CBJ	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	Adam Boqvist	FLA
Emil Andrae	PHI	Mikey Anderson	LAK
Henry Thrun	SJS	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Justin Barron	MON
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	STL	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Nick Perbix	TBL	Tanner Molendyk	NSH
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Zac Jones	NYR
Juuso Valimaki	UTA	Marcus Pettersson	PIT
Lukas Cormier	VGK	Owen Pickering	PIT
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Topi Niemela	TOR

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 18 - 19:12	DET	vs	PHI
Dec 18 - 19:12	DAL	vs	TOR
Dec 18 - 21:12	MIN	vs	FLA
Dec 18 - 22:12	ANA	vs	WPG
Dec 18 - 22:12	UTA	vs	VAN