Top 120 Keeper League Defensemen – June 2025

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2025-06-09

Here are the top 120 blueliners to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – June edition!

Did you know that the Fantasy Prospects Report is now out? Get the lowdown on each NHL team’s farm system – over 600 players profiled with fantasy outlooks, upsides and wait times, including the draftees who will find new teams later this month at the NHL Draft. Pick it up here.

This month in the Rankings, I put in all the unrestricted free agents, which resulted in a bit of shuffling (but not much). Also a couple of tweaks based on playoff performance.

As always, players between +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value. Click any player name to be taken to his fantasy hockey profile page (customized by yours truly – everything you want to know about him for your fantasy league).

Def RkPlayerTeamRatingJuneMayChange

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	June	May	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	192.3	11	11	0
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	156.6	27	27	0
3	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	136.4	35	35	0
4	Adam Fox	NYR	122.3	43	43	0
5	Evan Bouchard	EDM	115.0	55	55	0
6	Lane Hutson	MON	106.5	66	66	0
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	104.5	68	69	1
8	Zach Werenski	CBJ	103.8	69	70	1
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	92.9	87	89	2
10	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	90.3	91	93	2
11	Shea Theodore	VGK	86.0	97	97	0
12	Noah Dobson	NYI	83.8	101	101	0
13	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	79.6	106	106	0
14	Jake Sanderson	OTT	73.3	118	120	2
15	Roman Josi	NSH	73.3	119	121	2
16	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	71.4	122	125	3
17	Moritz Seider	DET	70.2	126	128	2
18	Erik Karlsson	PIT	69.4	131	132	1
19	Luke Hughes	NJD	69.0	133	134	1
20	Vince Dunn	SEA	65.0	139	140	1
21	Thomas Harley	DAL	58.2	153	154	1
22	Filip Hronek	VAN	57.8	155	156	1
23	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	55.7	162	164	2
24	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	55.6	163	165	2
25	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	55.4	164	166	2
26	Thomas Chabot	OTT	54.0	168	171	3
27	John Carlson	WAS	51.5	173	175	2
28	Seth Jones	FLA	47.8	180	181	1
29	Brandt Clarke	LAK	46.4	187	188	1
30	Brandon Montour	SEA	45.5	188	189	1
31	Bowen Byram	BUF	44.9	190	191	1
32	Devon Toews	COL	44.4	192	193	1
33	Simon Nemec	NJD	43.4	197	198	1
34	Owen Power	BUF	42.0	205	206	1
35	Noah Hanifin	VGK	40.1	212	213	1
36	Cam Fowler	STL	39.3	215	215	0
37	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	39.0	216	216	0
38	Zeev Buium	MIN	38.4	218	218	0
39	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	35.7	224	224	0
40	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	225	225	0
41	Sean Durzi	UTA	35.1	226	226	0
42	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	33.8	230	231	1
43	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	33.4	231	233	2
44	Morgan Rielly	TOR	33.2	232	234	2
45	Aaron Ekblad	UFA	32.9	236	209	-27
46	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	31.7	240	240	0
47	Jake Walman	EDM	31.5	242	242	0
48	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	29.3	248	249	1
49	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	27.8	257	258	1
50	David Jiricek	MIN	27.6	259	260	1
51	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	26.7	264	265	1
52	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	272	273	1
53	K’Andre Miller	NYR	25.6	274	274	0
54	Brock Faber	MIN	24.8	277	276	-1
55	Gustav Forsling	FLA	22.0	294	295	1
56	Drew Doughty	LAK	21.9	296	297	1
57	Neal Pionk	WPG	21.3	298	298	0
58	Simon Edvinsson	DET	20.2	308	309	1
59	Cole Hutson	WAS	20.1	309	NR	NEW
60	Jordan Spence	LAK	19.0	319	342	23
61	Darnell Nurse	EDM	18.7	321	320	-1
62	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	18.6	324	322	-2
63	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	18.5	325	323	-2
64	Samuel Girard	COL	18.3	328	326	-2
65	Ryker Evans	SEA	17.7	332	330	-2

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	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Mason Lohrei	BOS	Logan Mailloux	MON
Scott Morrow	CAR	Seamus Casey	NJD
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Tanner Molendyk	NSH
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Mike Matheson	MON	Braden Schneider	NYR
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Zac Jones	NYR
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT
Philip Broberg	STL	Cam York	PHI
Darren Raddysh	TBL	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Ivan Provorov	UFA	Dante Fabbro	UFA
Tony DeAngelo	UFA	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

Damon Severson	CBJ	Tristan Luneau	ANA
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Brady Skjei	NSH	Lian Bichsel	DAL
Justin Barron	NSH	Jared Spurgeon	MIN
Emil Andrae	PHI	Brett Pesce	NJD
Egor Zamula	PHI	Anton Silayev	NJD
Owen Pickering	PIT	Adam Boqvist	NYI
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Ryan Graves	PIT
Sam Dickinson	SJS	Conor Timmins	PIT
Colton Parayko	STL	Kris Letang	PIT
Justin Faulk	STL	Nick Perbix	UFA
J.J. Moser	TBL	Dmitry Orlov	UFA
Matt Grzelcyk	UFA	Dmitri Simashev	UTA
Michael Kesselring	UTA	Marcus Pettersson	VAN

UPCOMING GAMES

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	NIKOLAJ EHLERS	CAR
	GUSTAV NYQUIST	WPG
	MASON MCTAVISH	ANA
	PORTER MARTONE	PHI
	BOWEN BYRAM	BUF

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	SPENCER KNIGHT	CHI
	CHRIS HOLT
	DARCY KUEMPER	L.A
	MACKENZIE BLACKWOOD	COL
	ANDREI VASILEVSKIY	T.B

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	VAN Players
	20.2	KIEFER SHERWOOD AATU RATY DAKOTA JOSHUA
	19.6	MAX SASSON JAKE DEBRUSK BROCK BOESER
	19.0	PIUS SUTER NILS HOGLANDER CONOR GARLAND

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