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

As always, players between +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at this point become a matter of team needs or personal bias.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Mar	Feb	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	145.4	19	23	4
2	Adam Fox	NYR	132.8	27	26	-1
3	Victor Hedman	TBL	115.9	42	39	-3
4	Roman Josi	NSH	109.2	45	43	-2
5	John Carlson	WAS	105.4	52	44	-8
6	Morgan Rielly	TOR	104.1	54	53	-1
7	Quinn Hughes	VAN	95.6	60	64	4
8	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	94.6	63	89	26
9	Tony DeAngelo	CAR	90.4	68	68	0
10	Devon Toews	COL	84.8	82	76	-6
11	Kris Letang	PIT	84.7	83	94	11
12	Shea Theodore	VGK	84.5	84	80	-4
13	Moritz Seider	DET	80.0	95	141	46
14	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	74.2	105	107	2
15	Thomas Chabot	OTT	70.6	113	115	2
16	Seth Jones	CHI	69.3	117	114	-3
17	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	67.3	125	108	-17
18	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	66.1	128	127	-1
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.5	129	128	-1
20	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	64.7	132	116	-16
21	Drew Doughty	LAK	63.9	134	140	6
22	Torey Krug	STL	63.8	135	130	-5
23	Samuel Girard	COL	52.0	157	156	-1
24	John Klingberg	DAL	51.9	158	150	-8
25	Erik Karlsson	SJS	51.0	159	153	-6
26	Brent Burns	SJS	49.1	164	182	18
27	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	48.0	167	139	-28
28	Evan Bouchard	EDM	45.2	174	157	-17
29	Tyson Barrie	EDM	41.9	181	188	7
30	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	39.9	187	195	8
31	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	39.5	188	218	30
32	Filip Hronek	DET	38.8	193	220	27
33	Noah Dobson	NYI	36.1	211	291	80
34	Darnell Nurse	EDM	35.7	212	184	-28
35	Neal Pionk	WPG	35.4	213	198	-15
36	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	34.6	215	223	8
37	Ivan Provorov	PHI	33.7	218	221	3
38	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	32.6	225	209	-16
39	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	32.2	226	249	23
40	Damon Severson	NJD	31.1	230	270	40
41	Matt Dumba	MIN	28.9	239	234	-5
42	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	28.9	240	243	3
43	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	28.8	241	254	13
44	Gustav Forsling	FLA	26.3	256	238	-18
45	Jacob Trouba	NYR	26.2	257	244	-13
46	Noah Hanifin	CGY	24.8	265	360	95
47	Josh Morrissey	WPG	23.2	277	302	25
48	Ryan Ellis	PHI	23.0	278	258	-20
49	Oliver Kylington	CGY	21.3	295	273	-22
50	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	304	306	2
51	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	20.1	307	310	3
52	Ty Smith	NJD	18.6	327	331	4
53	Brandon Montour	FLA	17.7	337	275	-62
54	Justin Faulk	STL	17.7	342	440	98
55	Nate Schmidt	WPG	17.4	349	355	6
56	Jonas Brodin	MIN	17.1	355	317	-38
57	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.9	358	319	-39
58	Bowen Byram	COL	16.1	372	358	-14
59	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	15.7	378	387	9
60	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.6	380	389	9
61	Colton Parayko	STL	14.8	390	399	9
62	Alex Goligoski	MIN	14.6	393	332	-61
63	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	14.6	395	335	-60
64	Travis Sanheim	PHI	13.8	402	420	18
65	Scott Perunovich	STL	13.3	408	414	6

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

Kevin Shattenkirk	ANA	Ethan Bear	CAR
Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Brett Pesce	CAR
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Erik Gustafsson	CHI
Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Brady Skjei	CAR	Sean Durzi	LAK
Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ	Alexander Romanov	MON
Jake Bean	CBJ	Ryan Graves	NJD
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	David Farrance	NSH
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Ryan Pulock	NYI
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Mike Matheson	PIT	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Vince Dunn	SEA	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Travis Dermott	TOR

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

Josh Mahura	ANA	Conor Timmins	ARI
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Janis Moser	ARI
Esa Lindell	DAL	Owen Power	BUF
Kale Clague	MON	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
P.K. Subban	NJD	Justin Barron	COL
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Nick Leddy	DET
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Matt Roy	LAK
Robin Salo	NYI	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Cameron York	PHI	Alexandre Carrier	NSH
Erik Cernak	TBL	Braden Schneider	NYR
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Jake Sanderson	OTT
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	John Marino	PIT
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dylan Coghlan	VGK

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	ALEX LAFERRIERE	L.A

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	JET GREAVES	CBJ
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	LINUS ULLMARK	OTT
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	PIT Players
	22.4	BRYAN RUST RICKARD RAKELL SIDNEY CROSBY
	18.9	BLAKE LIZOTTE CONNOR DEWAR NOEL ACCIARI
	17.4	ELMER SODERBLOM ANTHONY MANTHA BEN KINDEL

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