Top 120 Keeper League Defensemen – December 2024

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2024-12-11

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

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Def. RkPlayerTeamRatingDecNovChange
1Cale MakarCOL205.59156
2Quinn HughesVAN182.816204
3Evan BouchardEDM145.02925-4
4Rasmus DahlinBUF131.135361
5Adam FoxNYR121.94537-8
6Josh MorrisseyWPG117.548535
7Roman JosiNSH111.75549-6
8Victor HedmanTBL104.066737
9Noah DobsonNYI99.57361-12
10Miro HeiskanenDAL89.88370-13
11Shea TheodoreVGK88.88710114
12Zach WerenskiCBJ88.48911728
13Dougie HamiltonNJD87.291987
14Erik KarlssonPIT85.39671-25
15Mikhail SergachevUTA82.31011043
16Shayne GostisbehereCAR76.511020595
17Morgan RiellyTOR75.01151194
18Charlie McAvoyBOS72.8121109-12
19Jakob ChychrunWAS64.613416834
20Jake SandersonOTT63.31371458
21John CarlsonWAS62.81391467
22Moritz SeiderDET61.7146125-21
23Brandon MontourSEA60.91501500
24Luke HughesNJD59.9153143-10
25Brandt ClarkeLAK59.41551550
26Vince DunnSEA56.515817618
27Lane HutsonMON53.216319734
28Thomas ChabotOTT51.51681735
29Bowen ByramBUF50.517218412
30Devon ToewsCOL49.5175156-19
31Aaron EkbladFLA48.317722043
32Owen PowerBUF43.719222129
33Pavel MintyukovANA42.81982002
34Alex PietrangeloVGK39.720521914
35Filip HronekVAN39.1206154-52
36Samuel GirardCOL38.9209310101
37Rasmus AnderssonCGY38.4211177-34
38Seth JonesCHI37.6214198-16
39Simon NemecNJD37.621522813
40Neal PionkWPG36.521826143
41Artyom LevshunovCHI35.722223311
42Jake WalmanSJS35.4224368144
43Mike MathesonMON35.4225201-24
44Zayne ParekhCGY35.22282357
45Drew DoughtyLAK34.42322408
46Brock FaberMIN33.8235207-28
47Thomas HarleyDAL33.02382413
48Noah HanifinVGK31.7242175-67
49David JiricekMIN31.62432474
50Kevin KorchinskiCHI31.42462482
51Travis SanheimPHI30.325131463
52Jamie DrysdalePHI30.22522586
53Kris LetangPIT29.3255242-13
54Olen ZellwegerANA29.32562659
55Mackenzie WeegarCGY28.326127918
56Alexander NikishinCAR27.726427410
57Damon SeversonCBJ26.726933263
58Gustav ForslingFLA26.6271255-16
59Darnell NurseEDM25.8278275-3
60Denton MateychukCBJ25.72792856
61Sean DurziUTA24.9283280-3
62Scott PerunovichSTL23.8291281-10
63Zeev BuiumMIN22.430231513
64Philip BrobergSTL22.430333835
65Rasmus SandinWAS22.130534237

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 FowlerANA Jacob TroubaANA
Hampus LindholmBOS Jaccob SlavinCAR
Ivan ProvorovCBJ Nils LundkvistDAL
Oliver KylingtonCOL Jordan SpenceLAK
Simon EdvinssonDET Kaiden GuhleMON
Mattias EkholmEDM Logan MaillouxMON
Brady SkjeiNSH Seamus CaseyNJD
K’Andre MillerNYR Braden SchneiderNYR
Cam YorkPHI Timothy LiljegrenSJS
Ryker EvansSEA Colton ParaykoSTL
Justin FaulkSTL Darren RaddyshTBL
J.J. MoserTBL Erik BrannstromVAN
Michael KesselringUTA   

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 JokiharjuBUF Jackson LacombeANA
Scott MorrowCAR Mason LohreiBOS
Dante FabbroCBJ Dmitry OrlovCAR
Alex VlasicCHI Hunter BrzustewiczCGY
Alexander RomanovNYI Axel Sandin PellikkaDET
Carter YakemchukOTT Adam BoqvistFLA
Emil AndraePHI Mikey AndersonLAK
Henry ThrunSJS Vladislav GavrikovLAK
Luca CagnoniSJS Justin BarronMON
Pierre-Olivier JosephSTL Alexandre CarrierNSH
Nick PerbixTBL Tanner MolendykNSH
Oliver Ekman-LarssonTOR Zac JonesNYR
Juuso ValimakiUTA Marcus PetterssonPIT
Lukas CormierVGK Owen PickeringPIT
Nicolas HagueVGK Topi NiemelaTOR

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