Here are the Top 120 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – November edition!

This list wasn’t around 20 years ago when the site launched. It was added by user request around 2008, and it’s been a staple ever since. Curated from the full Top 300 skaters list.

As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias. Click any player name to be taken to his fantasy player profile.

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	212.6	6	11	5
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	138.3	32	20	-12
3	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	128.1	37	39	2
4	Evan Bouchard	EDM	121.9	41	33	-8
5	Adam Fox	NYR	117.5	49	44	-5
6	Lane Hutson	MON	112.2	56	60	4
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	108.3	60	67	7
8	Zach Werenski	CBJ	103.7	64	64	0
9	Noah Dobson	MON	96.4	73	68	-5
10	Victor Hedman	TBL	93.4	78	73	-5
11	Jake Sanderson	OTT	87.8	85	96	11
12	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	82.4	94	104	10
13	Thomas Harley	DAL	82.3	95	107	12
14	Shea Theodore	VGK	79.9	101	93	-8
15	Luke Hughes	NJD	69.7	120	119	-1
16	Moritz Seider	DET	67.0	123	102	-21
17	Erik Karlsson	PIT	66.0	128	144	16
18	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	64.8	131	216	85
19	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	62.8	136	113	-23
20	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	60.5	145	138	-7
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	60.4	148	175	27
22	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	59.3	149	159	10
23	Roman Josi	NSH	57.1	155	134	-21
24	Zeev Buium	MIN	56.9	156	189	33
25	Brandt Clarke	LAK	56.2	158	161	3
26	Vince Dunn	SEA	56.1	159	152	-7
27	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	54.7	161	157	-4
28	Simon Nemec	NJD	50.6	171	211	40
29	John Carlson	WAS	50.3	173	169	-4
30	Thomas Chabot	OTT	44.9	186	198	12
31	Brandon Montour	SEA	44.6	190	210	20
32	Filip Hronek	VAN	43.0	197	193	-4
33	Bowen Byram	BUF	42.7	201	197	-4
34	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	41.2	206	180	-26
35	Owen Power	BUF	40.2	208	204	-4
36	Zayne Parekh	CGY	39.8	211	164	-47
37	Morgan Rielly	TOR	36.3	220	220	0
38	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	35.9	222	224	2
39	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	35.8	223	221	-2
40	Seth Jones	FLA	35.0	227	230	3
41	Noah Hanifin	VGK	34.3	228	199	-29
42	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	33.8	229	227	-2
43	Devon Toews	COL	31.8	236	201	-35
44	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	31.2	241	244	3
45	Jake Walman	EDM	30.9	243	291	48
46	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	29.9	245	245	0
47	Cam Fowler	STL	27.6	251	243	-8
48	Brock Faber	MIN	27.4	252	252	0
49	Gustav Forsling	FLA	23.2	275	268	-7
50	Mike Matheson	MON	22.4	280	336	56
51	Simon Edvinsson	DET	22.4	281	286	5
52	Cole Hutson	WAS	22.1	284	290	6
53	K’Andre Miller	CAR	22.0	286	301	15
54	Mason Lohrei	BOS	21.5	288	371	83
55	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	21.1	292	267	-25
56	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	21.1	294	228	-66
57	Jordan Spence	OTT	20.8	298	314	16
58	Sean Durzi	UTA	20.6	301	246	-55
59	Neal Pionk	WPG	18.9	324	280	-44
60	Darnell Nurse	EDM	18.6	332	342	10
61	Tony DeAngelo	NYI	18.4	334	313	-21
62	Drew Doughty	LAK	18.2	338	260	-78
63	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	18.1	339	332	-7
64	Michael Kesselring	BUF	18.0	341	329	-12
65	Travis Sanheim	PHI	17.0	354	348	-6

The Next Group (gap between 66 and 90 is same as gap between 17 and 20 – i.e. they are pretty equal)

Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	Olen Zellweger	ANA
Rasmus Andersson	CGY	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Dante Fabbro	CBJ
Kevin Korchinski	CHI	Seamus Casey	NJD
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Scott Morrow	NYR
David Jiricek	MIN	Cam York	PHI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Ryker Evans	SEA
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Sam Dickinson	SJS
Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Logan Mailloux	STL
Philip Broberg	STL	Colton Parayko	STL
Darren Raddysh	TBL	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

Tristan Luneau	ANA	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Radim Mrtka	BUF
Samuel Girard	COL	Conor Timmins	BUF
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Damon Severson	CBJ
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Justin Barron	NSH	Anton Silayev	NJD
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Brady Skjei	NSH
Braden Schneider	NYR	Nicolas Hague	NSH
Emil Andrae	PHI	Nick Perbix	NSH
Owen Pickering	PIT	Cameron Reid	NSH
Justin Faulk	STL	Vladislav Gavrikov	NYR
J.J. Moser	TBL	Kris Letang	PIT
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Shakir Mukhamadullin	SJS
Dmitri Simashev	UTA	Charle-Edouard D’Astous	TBL
Elias Salomonsson	WPG	Maveric Lamoureux	UTA