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

As always, players ranked within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal, and become a matter of weighing the pros and cons of immediate payoff, long-term upside, proneness to injury, team style, etc.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Evan Bouchard	EDM	206.9	8	20	12
2	Quinn Hughes	MIN	193.5	13	21	8
3	Cale Makar	COL	178.2	21	15	-6
4	Lane Hutson	MON	149.7	33	35	2
5	Zach Werenski	CBJ	137.7	41	41	0
6	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	125.4	48	40	-8
7	Adam Fox	NYR	116.8	56	63	7
8	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	112.2	58	77	19
9	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	106.8	64	123	59
10	Jake Sanderson	OTT	102.2	68	90	22
11	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	98.7	73	84	11
12	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	87.0	89	88	-1
13	Moritz Seider	DET	81.0	100	102	2
14	Josh Morrissey	WPG	76.5	106	82	-24
15	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	74.1	115	116	1
16	Erik Karlsson	PIT	72.0	119	134	15
17	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	71.8	120	121	1
18	Noah Dobson	MON	71.8	122	106	-16
19	Cole Hutson	WAS	69.6	126	131	5
20	John Carlson	TBL	68.9	127	105	-22
21	Darren Raddysh	TOR	66.7	135	127	-8
22	Brandt Clarke	LAK	64.8	139	160	21
23	Bowen Byram	CHI	63.9	141	129	-12
24	Roman Josi	NSH	62.6	146	178	32
25	Luke Hughes	NJD	61.9	152	153	1
26	Filip Hronek	VAN	61.1	153	168	15
27	Vince Dunn	SEA	59.4	156	164	8
28	Shea Theodore	VGK	58.8	159	91	-68
29	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	58.6	160	154	-6
30	Thomas Harley	DAL	58.4	161	157	-4
31	Simon Nemec	CGY	53.2	174	158	-16
32	Seth Jones	FLA	52.8	176	321	145
33	Owen Power	BUF	50.9	181	217	36
34	Zayne Parekh	CGY	47.9	188	172	-16
35	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	45.9	194	188	-6
36	Victor Hedman	TBL	45.2	198	186	-12
37	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	41.7	209	209	0
38	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	39.6	216	219	3
39	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	39.0	217	225	8
40	Axel Sandin-Pellikka	DET	37.6	221	215	-6
41	Brock Faber	MIN	35.5	227	230	3
42	Rasmus Andersson	VGK	33.6	235	236	1
43	Zeev Buium	VAN	32.5	238	233	-5
44	Chase Reid	SEA	30.7	244	244	0
45	Philip Broberg	STL	27.5	255	333	78
46	Sam Dickinson	SJS	26.6	260	262	2
47	Thomas Chabot	OTT	25.0	275	332	57
48	Jackson Smith	CBJ	24.8	278	281	3
49	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	24.4	280	245	-35
50	Morgan Rielly	TOR	22.9	289	513	224
51	Brandon Montour	SEA	22.8	290	411	121
52	K’Andre Miller	CAR	22.6	292	284	-8
53	Charle-Edouard D’Astous	TBL	21.7	299	464	165
54	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	21.6	300	300	0
55	Mattias Samuelsson	BUF	20.5	306	387	81
56	Olen Zellweger	BUF	19.9	310	345	35
57	Mike Matheson	MON	19.8	312	314	2
58	Ryker Evans	SEA	19.5	316	458	142
59	Devon Toews	COL	19.1	322	446	124
60	Jordan Spence	OTT	18.8	324	268	-56
61	Xavier Villeneuve	CHI	18.4	328	325	-3
62	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	18.1	330	310	-20
63	Neal Pionk	WPG	17.1	341	531	190
64	Noah Hanifin	VGK	16.8	343	264	-79
65	Sam Malinski	COL	16.0	359	354	-5

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

Tristan Luneau	ANA	Emil Andrae	CBJ
Ivan Provorov	CBJ	Wyatt Kaiser	CHI
Carson Carels	CGY	Jake Walman	EDM
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Kaiden Guhle	MON
Drew Doughty	LAK	Scott Morrow	NYR
Seamus Casey	NJD	Cam York	PHI
Ryan Ufko	NSH	Keaton Verhoeff	SJS
Sean Durzi	NYR	Luca Cagnoni	SJS
Alberts Smits	NYR	J.J. Moser	TBL
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Mackenzie Weegar	UTA
Justin Barron	STL	Dmitri Simashev	UTA
Logan Mailloux	STL	Tom Willander	VAN
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

Mason Lohrei	BOS	Radim Mrtka	BUF
Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Henry Mews	CGY	Justin Faulk	DET
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Mattias Ekholm	EDM
Kevin Korchinski	CHI	Adam Engstrom	MON
Aaron Ekblad	FLA	Cameron Reid	NSH
Gustav Forsling	FLA	Tanner Molendyk	NSH
Bryce Pickford	MON	Tony DeAngelo	NYI
Thomas Bleyl	NSH	David Jiricek	PHI
Kashawn Aitcheson	NYI	Samuel Girard	PIT
Tyson Jugnauth	SEA	Harrison Brunicke	PIT
Michael Kesselring	SJS	Ty Nelson	SEA
Eric Pohlkamp	SJS	Leo Sahlin Wallenius	SJS
Adam Jiricek	STL	Cam Fowler	STL
Lukas Cormier	VGK	Theo Lindstein	STL