Top 120 Keeper League Defensemen – February 2025

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2025-02-11

Here are the top 300 skaters to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – January edition!

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As always, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias.

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Def. RkPlayerTeamRatingFebJanChange

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	189.4	9	9	0
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	178.1	13	13	0
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	138.0	32	33	1
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	122.5	41	42	1
5	Adam Fox	NYR	115.0	45	50	5
6	Josh Morrissey	WPG	113.3	48	48	0
7	Zach Werenski	CBJ	111.2	54	70	16
8	Shea Theodore	VGK	97.0	69	78	9
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	95.7	70	65	-5
10	Roman Josi	NSH	87.9	81	98	17
11	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	87.2	84	85	1
12	Erik Karlsson	PIT	85.3	89	90	1
13	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	79.6	99	91	-8
14	Lane Hutson	MON	79.1	101	162	61
15	Moritz Seider	DET	74.7	108	137	29
16	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	74.1	111	112	1
17	Noah Dobson	NYI	71.9	115	82	-33
18	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	69.8	116	107	-9
19	Jake Sanderson	OTT	64.6	127	148	21
20	Vince Dunn	SEA	60.8	141	120	-21
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	58.8	143	143	0
22	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	55.6	151	116	-35
23	John Carlson	WAS	54.2	153	164	11
24	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	52.2	159	171	12
25	Thomas Chabot	OTT	51.5	160	173	13
26	Luke Hughes	NJD	49.8	166	151	-15
27	Devon Toews	COL	49.2	167	182	15
28	Bowen Byram	BUF	48.8	168	178	10
29	Brandt Clarke	LAK	46.4	173	160	-13
30	Brandon Montour	SEA	45.3	176	147	-29
31	Morgan Rielly	TOR	39.8	195	128	-67
32	Seth Jones	CHI	39.8	197	217	20
33	Neal Pionk	WPG	39.5	199	204	5
34	Owen Power	BUF	39.4	200	197	-3
35	Filip Hronek	VAN	39.1	202	205	3
36	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	206	211	5
37	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	214	221	7
38	Drew Doughty	LAK	34.4	217	226	9
39	Jake Walman	SJS	33.8	218	200	-18
40	Thomas Harley	DAL	33.0	222	233	11
41	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	33.0	223	234	11
42	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	32.7	226	219	-7
43	David Jiricek	MIN	31.6	230	243	13
44	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	238	251	13
45	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	249	259	10
46	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	26.7	252	253	1
47	Noah Hanifin	VGK	26.7	253	199	-54
48	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	25.7	257	284	27
49	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	258	269	11
50	Mike Matheson	MON	25.4	261	227	-34
51	Cam Fowler	STL	24.2	269	261	-8
52	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	24.2	270	241	-29
53	Travis Sanheim	PHI	23.9	273	250	-23
54	Darnell Nurse	EDM	22.7	280	268	-12
55	Zeev Buium	MIN	22.4	283	298	15
56	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	22.1	286	320	34
57	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	20.9	293	203	-90
58	Samuel Girard	COL	20.4	298	222	-76
59	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	19.5	306	363	57
60	Olen Zellweger	ANA	19.2	311	324	13
61	Colton Parayko	STL	19.0	314	327	13
62	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	17.5	328	290	-38
63	Mattias Ekholm	EDM	17.5	330	304	-26
64	Brock Faber	MIN	16.8	334	228	-106
65	Sean Durzi	UTA	16.7	337	279	-58

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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Damon Severson	CBJ	Mason Lohrei	BOS
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Gustav Forsling	FLA	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Jordan Spence	LAK	Justin Barron	NSH
Logan Mailloux	MON	Braden Schneider	NYR
Seamus Casey	NJD	Zac Jones	NYR
Brady Skjei	NSH	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Emil Andrae	PHI
Cam York	PHI	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR
Matt Grzelcyk	PIT	Michael Kesselring	UTA
Philip Broberg	STL	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Darren Raddysh	TBL

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	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Scott Morrow	CAR	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK	Dante Fabbro	CBJ
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Scott Perunovich	NYI	Alexandre Carrier	MON
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Tony DeAngelo	NYI
Ryker Evans	SEA	Erik Brannstrom	NYR
Henry Thrun	SJS	Owen Pickering	PIT
Timothy Liljegren	SJS	Justin Faulk	STL
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Conor Timmins	TOR
J.J. Moser	TBL	Topi Niemela	TOR
Nick Perbix	TBL	Dmitri Simashev	UTA
Juuso Valimaki	UTA	Marcus Pettersson	VAN

UPCOMING GAMES

	Jun 17 - 20:06	FLA	vs	EDM

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	MARCO ROSSI	MIN
	JJ PETERKA	BUF
	K'ANDRE MILLER	NYR
	CONNOR BEDARD	CHI
	BRADY TKACHUK	OTT

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	DARCY KUEMPER	L.A
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	UKKO-PEKKA LUUKKONEN	BUF
	FILIP GUSTAVSSON	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	ANA Players
	19.8	TREVOR ZEGRAS MASON MCTAVISH SAM COLANGELO
	19.5	ALEX KILLORN CUTTER GAUTHIER LEO CARLSSON
	16.2	FRANK VATRANO TROY TERRY RYAN STROME

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