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

As always, players rated between +/- 5.0 points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs (reliability vs. upside vs. floor, etc.) and personal bias.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	March	Feb	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	158.5	20	16	-4
2	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	151.7	23	25	2
3	Erik Karlsson	SJS	146.1	29	36	7
4	Adam Fox	NYR	139.4	34	31	-3
5	Roman Josi	NSH	129.2	43	48	5
6	Quinn Hughes	VAN	126.0	44	46	2
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	125.1	47	63	16
8	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	113.8	62	67	5
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	86.9	87	90	3
10	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	86.3	89	87	-2
11	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	81.9	94	121	27
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	80.8	95	103	8
13	Brandon Montour	FLA	76.3	106	102	-4
14	Shea Theodore	VGK	75.5	107	111	4
15	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	75.1	108	106	-2
16	Morgan Rielly	TOR	74.6	110	114	4
17	Devon Toews	COL	72.1	117	113	-4
18	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	70.2	119	116	-3
19	Moritz Seider	DET	64.3	136	139	3
20	Drew Doughty	LAK	64.3	137	144	7
21	Brent Burns	CAR	60.2	146	157	11
22	Tyson Barrie	NSH	58.8	149	131	-18
23	Noah Dobson	NYI	58.0	151	149	-2
24	Jakob Chychrun	OTT	57.8	153	167	14
25	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	57.8	154	128	-26
26	Evan Bouchard	EDM	57.2	155	162	7
27	John Carlson	WAS	55.9	157	138	-19
28	Filip Hronek	VAN	54.0	163	132	-31
29	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	53.3	167	152	-15
30	Vince Dunn	SEA	52.0	173	198	25
31	Calen Addison	MIN	48.4	184	185	1
32	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	44.4	191	200	9
33	Hampus Lindholm	BOS	44.3	192	202	10
34	Kris Letang	PIT	43.1	197	208	11
35	Darnell Nurse	EDM	42.8	198	206	8
36	Seth Jones	CHI	42.6	199	201	2
37	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	42.6	200	168	-32
38	Zach Werenski	CBJ	40.2	206	204	-2
39	Gustav Forsling	FLA	38.3	213	192	-21
40	Bowen Byram	COL	38.1	216	223	7
41	Sean Durzi	LAK	36.4	219	225	6
42	Erik Gustafsson	TOR	35.3	222	248	26
43	K’Andre Miller	NYR	32.6	231	233	2
44	Samuel Girard	COL	30.9	239	275	36
45	Noah Hanifin	CGY	27.8	251	241	-10
46	Ivan Provorov	PHI	27.7	252	260	8
47	Owen Power	BUF	26.7	258	294	36
48	Justin Faulk	STL	26.2	262	253	-9
49	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	26.1	263	278	15
50	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	24.2	286	285	-1
51	Neal Pionk	WPG	24.1	287	254	-33
52	Torey Krug	STL	22.1	297	251	-46
53	Cam Fowler	ANA	21.9	301	322	21
54	Dmitry Orlov	BOS	21.3	303	520	217
55	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	20.4	309	303	-6
56	Simon Nemec	NJD	19.5	317	316	-1
57	John Klingberg	MIN	19.4	320	353	33
58	Ty Smith	PIT	19.1	322	320	-2
59	Scott Perunovich	STL	18.9	324	324	0
60	Jacob Trouba	NYR	18.2	330	330	0
61	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	16.1	352	356	4
62	Nils Lundkvist	DAL	15.5	357	364	7
63	Olen Zellweger	ANA	15.5	359	367	8
64	Kaiden Guhle	MON	15.2	360	368	8
65	Juuso Valimaki	ARI	14.9	364	427	63

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

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Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Janis Moser	ARI
Jacob Bryson	BUF	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Brady Skjei	CAR	Jake Bean	CBJ
Ryan Merkley	COL	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Brandt Clarke	LAK
Jordan Spence	LAK	Jared Spurgeon	MIN
Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK	Matt Dumba	MIN
Damon Severson	NJD	John Marino	NJD
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Cam York	PHI
Jake Sanderson	OTT	Jeff Petry	PIT
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Justin Schultz	SEA

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

Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA
Brett Pesce	CAR	Scott Morrow	CAR
David Jiricek	CBJ	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ
Josh Mahura	FLA	Oliver Kylington	CGY
Matt Roy	LAK	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Luke Hughes	NJD	Thomas Harley	DAL
Ryan Graves	NJD	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Robin Salo	NYI	Philip Broberg	EDM
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Mike Matheson	MON
Zac Jones	NYR	Mattias Norlinder	MON
Braden Schneider	NYR	Justin Barron	MON
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Colton Parayko	STL	Nick Perbix	TBL
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Ville Heinola	WPG

2 Comments

Charlie 2023-03-09 at 13:04Log in to Reply

How is Mike Matheson not on this list?
- Dobber 2023-03-10 at 11:05Log in to Reply
  
  He is there. Hit CTRL-F to do a search