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

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


Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	May	Apr	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	179.1	15	14	-1
2	Quinn Hughes	MIN	170.7	19	19	0
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	170.0	20	18	-2
4	Lane Hutson	MON	148.3	35	30	-5
5	Zach Werenski	CBJ	135.8	40	33	-7
6	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	135.0	41	38	-3
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	99.6	73	74	1
8	Adam Fox	NYR	97.9	75	75	0
9	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	97.7	76	64	-12
10	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	97.5	78	71	-7
11	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	91.9	83	80	-3
12	Jake Sanderson	OTT	86.6	91	103	12
13	Moritz Seider	DET	85.0	95	78	-17
14	Noah Dobson	MON	84.6	97	86	-11
15	Darren Raddysh	TBL	82.2	102	70	-32
16	Shea Theodore	VGK	81.9	103	140	37
17	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	81.7	105	91	-14
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	77.5	115	90	-25
19	Erik Karlsson	PIT	74.8	122	99	-23
20	Cole Hutson	WAS	69.6	132	183	51
21	Thomas Harley	DAL	68.8	134	131	-3
22	Victor Hedman	TBL	65.8	136	175	39
23	Luke Hughes	NJD	64.4	139	144	5
24	Vince Dunn	SEA	64.1	141	148	7
25	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	63.3	144	126	-18
26	John Carlson	ANA	62.7	150	112	-38
27	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	57.7	160	122	-38
28	Brandt Clarke	LAK	56.2	164	159	-5
29	Brock Faber	MIN	55.2	168	153	-15
30	Filip Hronek	VAN	55.0	169	152	-17
31	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	52.4	172	164	-8
32	Roman Josi	NSH	50.3	176	146	-30
33	Simon Nemec	NJD	48.1	185	191	6
34	Bowen Byram	BUF	47.6	187	166	-21
35	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	46.2	194	196	2
36	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	42.4	203	207	4
37	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	42.2	206	218	12
38	Rasmus Andersson	VGK	41.6	207	193	-14
39	Zayne Parekh	CGY	40.8	212	185	-27
40	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	40.4	214	204	-10
41	Zeev Buium	VAN	37.3	226	221	-5
42	Noah Hanifin	VGK	36.3	231	312	81
43	Seth Jones	FLA	35.7	232	223	-9
44	Owen Power	BUF	32.4	239	271	32
45	Sean Durzi	UTA	30.7	245	356	111
46	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	30.3	249	291	42
47	Thomas Chabot	OTT	29.7	250	280	30
48	Sam Dickinson	SJS	26.3	263	242	-21
49	K’Andre Miller	CAR	25.7	265	259	-6
50	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	25.1	268	350	82
51	Mike Matheson	MON	24.9	270	244	-26
52	Jordan Spence	OTT	24.7	272	301	29
53	Brandon Montour	SEA	23.3	286	324	38
54	Morgan Rielly	TOR	22.4	295	267	-28
55	Gustav Forsling	FLA	21.1	300	383	83
56	Devon Toews	COL	21.1	302	362	60
57	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	19.8	313	333	20
58	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	17.5	332	441	109
59	Philip Broberg	STL	17.2	336	368	32
60	Jake Walman	EDM	16.8	344	359	15
61	Tom Willander	VAN	16.1	356	429	73
62	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	15.7	361	358	-3
63	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	14.7	368	321	-47
64	Travis Sanheim	PHI	14.5	370	360	-10
65	Olen Zellweger	ANA	14.3	373	361	-12

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	Mason Lohrei	BOS
Damon Severson	CBJ	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Kevin Korchinski	CHI	Justin Faulk	DET
Sam Malinski	COL	Darnell Nurse	EDM
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Scott Morrow	NYR
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Emil Andrae	PHI
Drew Doughty	LAK	Cam York	PHI
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Seamus Casey	NJD	Logan Mailloux	STL
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	J.J. Moser	TBL
Ryker Evans	SEA	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Charle-Edouard D’Astous	TBL	Neal Pionk	WPG
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	Tristan Luneau	ANA
Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY	Radim Mrtka	BUF
Henry Mews	CGY	Jackson Smith	CBJ
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Jackson Smith	CBJ
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	David Reinbacher	MON
Adam Engstrom	MON	Brady Skjei	NSH
Ryan Ufko	NSH	Cameron Reid	NSH
Justin Barron	NSH	Kashawn Aitcheson	NYI
Tony DeAngelo	NYI	David Jiricek	PHI
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Samuel Girard	PIT
Warren Marshall	NYI	Harrison Brunicke	PIT
Braden Schneider	NYR	Luca Cagnoni	SJS
Tyson Jugnauth	SEA	Leo Sahlin Wallenius	SJS
Dmitri Simashev	UTA	Cam Fowler	STL
Elias Salomonsson	WPG	Theo Lindstein	STL