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

As always, players rated within +/-5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal value and become a matter of team needs and personal bias. Click any player name to be taken to his customized fantasy player rankings.

Note that Frozen Tools has moved to a new server as of Monday. There are still some errors we are fixing, and there will still be some broken obscure parts of this vast stats area throughout the week. We will pick these off as we find them (or as you report them – but don’t report things until Wednesday as we are fixing the obvious stuff right now.

Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Feb	Jan	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	194.8	11	9	-2
2	Quinn Hughes	MIN	160.9	20	27	7
3	Lane Hutson	MON	151.2	26	36	10
4	Zach Werenski	CBJ	146.6	31	51	20
5	Evan Bouchard	EDM	144.5	33	40	7
6	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	128.0	41	49	8
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	105.1	57	59	2
8	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	96.7	74	66	-8
9	Noah Dobson	MON	90.3	82	75	-7
10	Jake Sanderson	OTT	89.7	83	95	12
11	Adam Fox	NYR	87.2	85	54	-31
12	Darren Raddysh	TBL	86.0	87	170	83
13	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	82.4	91	90	-1
14	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	81.1	93	108	15
15	Moritz Seider	DET	80.9	95	87	-8
16	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	77.9	102	99	-3
17	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	76.7	107	105	-2
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	69.7	117	136	19
19	Shea Theodore	VGK	68.5	119	113	-6
20	Erik Karlsson	PIT	64.6	124	120	-4
21	John Carlson	WAS	63.7	126	130	4
22	Vince Dunn	SEA	57.4	144	148	4
23	Thomas Harley	DAL	56.1	145	134	-11
24	Luke Hughes	NJD	55.3	147	121	-26
25	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	52.4	151	142	-9
26	Filip Hronek	VAN	51.0	154	164	10
27	Roman Josi	NSH	51.0	155	206	51
28	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	50.2	158	177	19
29	Brandt Clarke	LAK	47.2	163	168	5
30	Bowen Byram	BUF	46.3	164	171	7
31	Victor Hedman	TBL	46.1	165	145	-20
32	Simon Nemec	NJD	44.4	169	152	-17
33	Rasmus Andersson	VGK	42.1	180	179	-1
34	Seth Jones	FLA	41.0	183	162	-21
35	Brock Faber	MIN	40.2	188	225	37
36	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	39.9	189	187	-2
37	Zayne Parekh	CGY	39.8	190	194	4
38	Morgan Rielly	TOR	36.4	203	190	-13
39	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	35.6	206	215	9
40	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	34.7	211	220	9
41	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	32.5	216	226	10
42	Zeev Buium	VAN	31.5	219	193	-26
43	Cole Hutson	WAS	29.7	228	234	6
44	Noah Hanifin	VGK	27.4	235	238	3
45	Thomas Chabot	OTT	27.1	238	185	-53
46	Sam Dickinson	SJS	25.3	255	249	-6
47	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	25.0	256	263	7
48	Mike Matheson	MON	24.9	257	254	-3
49	Brandon Montour	SEA	23.3	268	204	-64
50	K’Andre Miller	CAR	22.0	279	281	2
51	Owen Power	BUF	21.9	280	282	2
52	Sean Durzi	UTA	20.6	288	294	6
53	Sam Malinski	COL	20.3	293	283	-10
54	Devon Toews	COL	20.2	294	287	-7
55	Jordan Spence	OTT	18.7	309	293	-16
56	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	18.6	310	312	2
57	Jake Walman	EDM	17.8	321	257	-64
58	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	17.7	324	393	69
59	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	16.6	338	346	8
60	Mattias Ekholm	EDM	16.6	339	384	45
61	Olen Zellweger	ANA	15.3	359	325	-34
62	Mason Lohrei	BOS	15.3	360	368	8
63	Gustav Forsling	FLA	15.1	363	288	-75
64	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	14.7	368	370	2
65	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	14.5	369	376	7

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

Ivan Provorov	CBJ	Kevin Korchinski	CHI
Samuel Girard	COL	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Alexandre Carrier	MON
Darnell Nurse	EDM	Tony DeAngelo	NYI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Scott Morrow	NYR
Seamus Casey	NJD	Emil Andrae	PHI
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Cam York	PHI	Philip Broberg	STL
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Logan Mailloux	STL
Ryker Evans	SEA	J.J. Moser	TBL
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Tom Willander	VAN
Justin Faulk	STL	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

Michael Kesselring	BUF	Radim Mrtka	BUF
Zac Jones	BUF	Damon Severson	CBJ
Jaccob Slavin	CAR	Wyatt Kaiser	CHI
Dante Fabbro	CBJ	Drew Doughty	LAK
Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY	David Jiricek	MIN
Henry Mews	CGY	Adam Engstrom	MON
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Brady Skjei	NSH
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Cameron Reid	NSH
Ryan Ufko	NSH	Warren Marshall	NYI
Justin Barron	NSH	Kashawn Aitcheson	NYI
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Kris Letang	PIT
Tyson Jugnauth	SEA	Lukas Dragicevic	SEA
Cam Fowler	STL	Leo Sahlin Wallenius	SJS
Neal Pionk	WPG	Colton Parayko	STL
Elias Salomonsson	WPG	Alfons Freij	WPG

2 Comments

ringer 2026-02-04 at 16:17Log in to Reply

BUF Mattias Samuelsson should probably crack one of the bottom tiers
- Dobber 2026-02-26 at 11:24Log in to Reply
  
  Thanks for the nudge. What happened here was – I had him on my template since he was 18. I had always felt he had some offense in him. But then he showed nothing, and got hurt time and time again. And after five years on my template, I just removed him altogether! Gave up too soon I guess. Anyway, each month reviewing the stats, I see him, and think I already have him on my template, forgetting that I removed him. He’s back on now, and he might even crack the top 65.