Top 120 Keeper League Defensemen – April 2025

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2025-04-04

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

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And now onto the list. As always, players rated between +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team need or personal bias. This is the last list of the season, next month we will rough-out the list based on rough projections for 2025-26 and beyond. Among other things, that pretty much means the players who were injured this season will get an injection of fantasy value!

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Apr	Mar	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	192.3	6	8	2
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	152.3	24	23	-1
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	125.3	39	37	-2
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	125.2	40	39	-1
5	Zach Werenski	CBJ	123.3	41	43	2
6	Adam Fox	NYR	112.3	49	46	-3
7	Lane Hutson	MON	103.5	61	81	20
8	Josh Morrissey	WPG	99.6	70	54	-16
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	95.7	72	72	0
10	Shea Theodore	VGK	86.0	83	73	-10
11	Erik Karlsson	PIT	85.3	85	90	5
12	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	75.6	105	95	-10
13	Jake Sanderson	OTT	72.6	109	123	14
14	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	68.7	117	112	-5
15	Noah Dobson	NYI	68.3	118	118	0
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	65.5	125	127	2
17	Moritz Seider	DET	64.9	126	106	-20
18	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	64.8	127	114	-13
19	Luke Hughes	NJD	62.4	130	144	14
20	Roman Josi	NSH	57.4	142	121	-21
21	Thomas Harley	DAL	56.8	145	172	27
22	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	55.6	147	151	4
23	John Carlson	WAS	54.2	151	153	2
24	Vince Dunn	SEA	53.2	153	140	-13
25	Devon Toews	COL	51.7	155	163	8
26	Thomas Chabot	OTT	51.5	156	158	2
27	Brandon Montour	SEA	47.8	164	176	12
28	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	46.2	173	148	-25
29	Bowen Byram	BUF	44.9	177	180	3
30	Brandt Clarke	LAK	40.2	187	196	9
31	Owen Power	BUF	39.4	189	199	10
32	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	39.0	190	214	24
33	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	37.3	195	174	-21
34	Seth Jones	CHI	37.2	197	193	-4
35	Simon Nemec	NJD	36.6	198	202	4
36	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	202	209	7
37	Filip Hronek	VAN	35.1	203	206	3
38	Noah Hanifin	VGK	33.9	208	302	94
39	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	32.7	214	218	4
40	Morgan Rielly	TOR	32.0	218	185	-33
41	Jake Walman	EDM	31.5	220	213	-7
42	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	31.1	223	237	14
43	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	229	230	1
44	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	240	246	6
45	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	27.0	247	244	-3
46	David Jiricek	MIN	26.6	249	224	-25
47	Neal Pionk	WPG	26.4	250	212	-38
48	Cam Fowler	STL	26.1	253	263	10
49	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	257	257	0
50	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	24.8	260	252	-8
51	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	23.6	265	248	-17
52	Zeev Buium	MIN	22.4	275	278	3
53	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	20.9	285	289	4
54	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	20.6	287	311	24
55	Samuel Girard	COL	17.7	303	308	5
56	Brock Faber	MIN	16.8	314	327	13
57	Sean Durzi	UTA	16.7	317	331	14
58	Gustav Forsling	FLA	16.4	325	314	-11
59	K’Andre Miller	NYR	16.1	327	349	22
60	Darren Raddysh	TBL	16.1	328	366	38
61	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	15.8	331	321	-10
62	Darnell Nurse	EDM	15.2	337	325	-12
63	Simon Edvinsson	DET	14.7	342	368	26
64	Mason Lohrei	BOS	13.7	357	347	-10
65	Jordan Spence	LAK	13.6	360	380	20

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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Olen Zellweger	ANA	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	Scott Morrow	CAR
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Dante Fabbro	CBJ
Drew Doughty	LAK	Tanner Molendyk	NSH
Mike Matheson	MON	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Zac Jones	NYR
Logan Mailloux	MON	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT
Seamus Casey	NJD	Emil Andrae	PHI
Braden Schneider	NYR	Ryker Evans	SEA
Cam York	PHI	Justin Faulk	STL
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Colton Parayko	STL
Matt Grzelcyk	PIT	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Philip Broberg	STL

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

Damon Severson	CBJ	Tristan Luneau	ANA
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Alexandre Carrier	MON	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Brady Skjei	NSH	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Justin Barron	NSH	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Egor Zamula	PHI	Lian Bichsel	DAL
Owen Pickering	PIT	Erik Gustafsson	DET
Timothy Liljegren	SJS	Carson Lambos	MIN
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Anton Silayev	NJD
Henry Thrun	SJS	Tony DeAngelo	NYI
J.J. Moser	TBL	Scott Perunovich	NYI
Nick Perbix	TBL	Conor Timmins	PIT
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Jake McCabe	TOR
Topi Niemela	TOR	Michael Kesselring	UTA
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dmitri Simashev	UTA

UPCOMING GAMES

Oct 07 - 17:10	FLA	vs	CHI
Oct 07 - 20:10	NYR	vs	PIT
Oct 07 - 22:10	L.A	vs	COL

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	LOGAN COOLEY	UTA
	SAM RINZEL	CHI
	JAMES HAGENS	BOS
	ZACH BENSON	BUF
	KAAPO KAKKO	SEA

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	ILYA SOROKIN	NYI
	TY YOUNG	VAN
	CAM TALBOT	DET
	FILIP GUSTAVSSON	MIN
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	NSH Players
	21.0	RYAN O'REILLY LUKE EVANGELISTA MICHAEL BUNTING
	20.3	MATTHEW WOOD JAKUB VRANA FEDOR SVECHKOV
	20.0	STEVEN STAMKOS JONATHAN MARCHESSAULT FILIP FORSBERG

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