Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – April 2021

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2021-04-02

Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – April edition!

As always, players rated within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias. This list was simply curated from the full Top 300 skaters list that was posted Thursday. Access all the rankings historically, here.

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Def RankPlayerTeamRatingAprilMarchChange
1John CarlsonWAS116.432266
2Victor HedmanTBL113.33447-13
3Cale MakarCOL111.33538-3
4Adam FoxNYR97.752161-109
5Morgan RiellyTOR96.155550
6Shea TheodoreVGK96.15661-5
7Quinn HughesVAN95.5584810
8Dougie HamiltonCAR89.96470-6
9Tyson BarrieEDM85.86895-27
10Roman JosiNSH81.674695
11Thomas ChabotOTT74.38891-3
12John KlingbergDAL72.990891
13Kris LetangPIT67.6105142-37
14Torey KrugSTL63.611610412
15Miro HeiskanenDAL62.61191190
16Samuel GirardCOL62.5120158-38
17Drew DoughtyLAK59.9126151-25
18Charlie McAvoyBOS56.8133136-3
19Darnell NurseEDM56.8134182-48
20Seth JonesCBJ56.3136138-2
21Mikhail SergachevTBL52.5145150-5
22Zach WerenskiCBJ52.414612224
23Rasmus DahlinBUF51.61489751
24Alex PietrangeloVGK50.915213121
25Erik KarlssonSJS48.915814117
26Brent BurnsSJS47.416212438
27Neal PionkWPG46.9165174-9
28Jeff PetryMON44.1175183-8
29Jakob ChychrunARI42.7180221-41
30Filip HronekDET40.0184209-25
31Ivan ProvorovPHI39.81871798
32Oliver Ekman-LarssonARI38.3189207-18
33Ty SmithNJD37.5192198-6
34Aaron EkbladFLA36.319918019
35Nick LeddyNYI36.3200316-116
36Devon ToewsCOL34.1210298-88
37Keith YandleFLA31.722118833
38Adam BoqvistCHI30.5225237-12
39Tony DeAngeloNYR30.0226227-1
40Erik GustafssonPHI29.023015971
41Josh MorrisseyWPG27.924122615
42Matt DumbaMIN25.924923316
43Evan BouchardEDM23.8262282-20
44Rasmus AnderssonCGY22.826825612
45Matt GrzelcykBOS19.8289405-116
46Mattias EkholmNSH19.8291326-35
47Justin SchultzWAS19.4293415-122
48Colton ParaykoSTL17.731526253
49Alec MartinezVGK17.0321418-97
50Jaccob SlavinCAR16.333631323
51Shea WeberMON16.233828553
52Vince DunnSTL15.934127566
53Travis SanheimPHI15.834228953
54Rasmus RistolainenBUF15.7344200144
55Ryan PulockNYI15.4352242110
56Jacob TroubaNYR15.235532728
57Will ButcherNJD14.936134318
58Bowen ByramCOL14.7364387-23
59Ryan EllisNSH14.4366232134
60Jake MuzzinTOR13.837533936
61Damon SeversonNJD13.737627898
62Alexander RomanovMON13.2380407-27
63Mark GiordanoCGY13.1383276107
64Shayne GostisbeherePHI12.8387416-29
65Mackenzie WeegarFLA12.6390494-104

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

Pierre-Olivier JosephPIT Esa LindellDAL
Jake BeanCAR Alexander AlexeyevWAS
P.K. SubbanNJD Kale ClagueLAK
Brett PesceCAR Henri JokiharjuBUF
Ethan BearEDM Jonas BrodinMIN
Erik BrannstromOTT Ian MitchellCHI
Noah DobsonNYI Dante FabbroNSH
Mike MathesonPIT Ryan GravesCOL
Brandon MontourBUF Erik CernakTBL
Noah HanifinCGY Cam FowlerANA
Juuso ValimakiCGY Nicolas HagueVGK
Dennis CholowskiDET Sami NikuWPG
Scott PerunovichSTL   

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

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Justin FaulkSTL Caleb JonesEDM
David FarranceNSH K’Andre MillerNYR
Josh MahuraANA Hampus LindholmANA
Marcus PetterssonPIT Jamie DrysdaleANA
Rasmus SandinTOR Yegor ZamulaPHI
Conor TimminsCOL Sean WalkerLAK
Ryan SuterMIN Matt RoyLAK
Victor SoderstromARI Oscar KlefbomEDM
Mikko LehtonenCBJ Christian DjoosDET
Nate SchmidtVAN Bode WildeNYI
Jake GardinerCAR Mike ReillyOTT
Tyler MyersVAN Vladislav GavrikovCBJ
Ryan MerkleySJS Jett WooVAN
Philippe MyersPHI Dmitry OrlovWAS
Timothy LiljegrenTOR Mario FerraroSJS

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