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

But first, in just over three (3!) weeks from now, the 19th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide will be released. That’s right, I’ve earned your trust for 19 years. You can pre-order your digital copy here, or for another $5 you can get the Fantasy Prospects Report along with it (Value $14.99) here.

As always, players within +/-5.0 rating of each other should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of team needs (immediate help vs wait time, rebuilding vs. going for it, etc.) or personal preference.

Click on any player name to be taken to his player section, which we customized to best suit fantasy hockey

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	July	June	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	186.5	16	16	0
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	170.1	19	19	0
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	146.8	29	29	0
4	Roman Josi	NSH	131.9	41	42	1
5	Adam Fox	NYR	131.3	42	41	-1
6	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	124.2	45	47	2
7	Noah Dobson	NYI	119.0	52	52	0
8	Josh Morrissey	WPG	113.3	57	56	-1
9	Victor Hedman	TBL	104.0	73	71	-2
10	Erik Karlsson	PIT	103.9	74	72	-2
11	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	96.6	81	81	0
12	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	84.5	103	102	-1
13	Moritz Seider	DET	83.6	106	105	-1
14	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	83.5	107	106	-1
15	Morgan Rielly	TOR	81.7	111	109	-2
16	Vince Dunn	SEA	76.8	119	114	-5
17	Shea Theodore	VGK	72.9	126	123	-3
18	Mikhail Sergachev	UHC	71.7	129	127	-2
19	Luke Hughes	NJD	71.5	131	129	-2
20	Devon Toews	COL	70.8	133	131	-2
21	Thomas Chabot	OTT	70.2	136	150	14
22	Zach Werenski	CBJ	68.9	142	140	-2
23	Filip Hronek	VAN	67.5	150	147	-3
24	Drew Doughty	LAK	60.1	163	163	0
25	Brandon Montour	SEA	58.3	166	160	-6
26	John Carlson	WAS	56.2	173	173	0
27	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	54.2	179	177	-2
28	Noah Hanifin	VGK	54.1	180	178	-2
29	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	54.0	181	175	-6
30	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	52.3	184	182	-2
31	Bowen Byram	BUF	46.6	202	238	36
32	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	45.0	205	202	-3
33	Mike Matheson	MON	44.7	207	208	1
34	Kris Letang	PIT	43.3	210	207	-3
35	Jake Sanderson	OTT	41.7	215	212	-3
36	Thomas Harley	DAL	40.6	218	215	-3
37	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	39.3	221	219	-2
38	Brock Faber	MIN	38.4	226	233	7
39	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	228	225	-3
40	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	37.4	229	226	-3
41	Sean Durzi	UHC	35.4	237	242	5
42	Brandt Clarke	LAK	35.4	238	235	-3
43	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	240	NR	#####
44	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	34.5	243	232	-11
45	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	33.4	249	245	-4
46	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	33.1	251	NR	#####
47	David Jiricek	CBJ	32.6	255	248	-7
48	Owen Power	BUF	30.7	263	259	-4
49	Brady Skjei	NSH	29.4	270	265	-5
50	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	29.1	273	270	-3
51	Seth Jones	CHI	28.9	274	273	-1
52	Lane Hutson	MON	27.8	280	280	0
53	Samuel Girard	COL	27.6	282	327	45
54	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	26.7	289	284	-5
55	Darnell Nurse	EDM	26.3	291	287	-4
56	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	296	295	-1
57	Travis Sanheim	PHI	25.1	304	272	-32
58	Gustav Forsling	FLA	24.3	308	302	-6
59	Jordan Spence	LAK	24.1	309	303	-6
60	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	23.7	314	306	-8
61	Erik Brannstrom	COL	22.2	326	350	24
62	Olen Zellweger	ANA	21.9	328	313	-15
63	Brent Burns	CAR	21.2	338	322	-16
64	Scott Perunovich	STL	21.0	339	323	-16
65	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	20.1	348	335	-13

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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Cam Fowler	ANA	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Hampus Lindholm	BOS	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Jaccob Slavin	CAR	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Ty Smith	CAR	Jacob Trouba	NYR
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Torey Krug	STL
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	STL
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Darren Raddysh	TBL
K’Andre Miller	NYR	J.J. Moser	TBL
Cam York	PHI	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR
Henry Thrun	SJS	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Justin Faulk	STL	Tyson Barrie	UFA
Juuso Valimaki	UHC	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Neal Pionk	WPG

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	Jackson Lacombe	ANA
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Scott Morrow	CAR
Damon Severson	CBJ	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY	Matt Dumba	DAL
Mikey Anderson	LAK	Erik Gustafsson	DET
Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET
Justin Barron	MON	Philip Broberg	EDM
John Marino	NJD	Zeev Buium	MIN
Zac Jones	NYR	Braden Schneider	NYR
Emil Andrae	PHI	Egor Zamula	PHI
Ryker Evans	SEA	Topi Niemela	TOR
Nick Perbix	TBL	John Klingberg	UFA
Oliver Kylington	UFA	Adam Boqvist	UFA
Lukas Cormier	VGK	Michael Kesselring	UHC
Ville Heinola	WPG	Dmitri Simashev	UHC

UPCOMING GAMES

Oct 05 - 10:10	N.J	vs	BUF
Oct 05 - 17:10	NSH	vs	CAR
Oct 05 - 17:10	WSH	vs	BOS
Oct 05 - 19:10	L.A	vs	FLA
Oct 05 - 19:10	TOR	vs	DET
Oct 05 - 19:10	OTT	vs	MTL
Oct 05 - 19:10	UTA	vs	COL
Oct 05 - 20:10	CHI	vs	STL
Oct 05 - 22:10	VGK	vs	S.J

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	JACK QUINN	BUF
	ADAM BOQVIST	FLA
	JJ PETERKA	BUF
	JOHNATHAN KOVACEVIC	N.J
	BRANDT CLARKE	L.A

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	PYOTR KOCHETKOV	CAR
	ARTURS SILOVS	VAN
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN
	THATCHER DEMKO	VAN
	DUSTIN WOLF	CGY

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	CHI Players
	25.0	TEUVO TERAVAINEN TYLER BERTUZZI CONNOR BEDARD
	19.7	CRAIG SMITH PATRICK MAROON RYAN DONATO
	16.7	ILYA MIKHEYEV PHILIPP KURASHEV TAYLOR HALL

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