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

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

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	March	Feb	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	189.4	8	9	1
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	155.1	23	13	-10
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	127.2	37	32	-5
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	123.8	39	41	2
5	Zach Werenski	CBJ	118.9	43	54	11
6	Adam Fox	NYR	115.0	46	45	-1
7	Josh Morrissey	WPG	110.6	54	48	-6
8	Victor Hedman	TBL	92.9	72	70	-2
9	Shea Theodore	VGK	92.9	73	69	-4
10	Lane Hutson	MON	88.6	81	101	20
11	Erik Karlsson	PIT	85.3	90	89	-1
12	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	79.6	95	99	4
13	Moritz Seider	DET	74.7	106	108	2
14	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	71.4	112	111	-1
15	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	71.3	114	84	-30
16	Noah Dobson	NYI	68.3	118	115	-3
17	Roman Josi	NSH	67.7	121	81	-40
18	Jake Sanderson	OTT	67.3	123	127	4
19	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	65.5	127	116	-11
20	Vince Dunn	SEA	60.8	140	141	1
21	Luke Hughes	NJD	58.6	144	166	22
22	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	56.1	148	159	11
23	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	55.6	151	151	0
24	John Carlson	WAS	54.2	153	153	0
25	Thomas Chabot	OTT	51.5	158	160	2
26	Devon Toews	COL	49.2	163	167	4
27	Thomas Harley	DAL	46.8	172	222	50
28	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	46.1	174	143	-31
29	Brandon Montour	SEA	45.3	176	176	0
30	Bowen Byram	BUF	43.5	180	168	-12
31	Morgan Rielly	TOR	42.4	185	195	10
32	Seth Jones	CHI	39.8	193	197	4
33	Brandt Clarke	LAK	39.0	196	173	-23
34	Owen Power	BUF	38.0	199	200	1
35	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	202	206	4
36	Filip Hronek	VAN	37.1	206	202	-4
37	Zayne Parekh	CGY	35.2	209	214	5
38	Neal Pionk	WPG	34.2	212	199	-13
39	Jake Walman	EDM	33.4	213	218	5
40	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	33.4	214	306	92
41	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	32.7	218	226	8
42	David Jiricek	MIN	31.6	224	230	6
43	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	230	238	8
44	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	28.5	237	257	20
45	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	28.0	244	223	-21
46	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	27.7	246	249	3
47	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	27.3	248	286	38
48	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	26.7	252	252	0
49	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	25.7	257	258	1
50	Cam Fowler	STL	24.2	263	269	6
51	Mike Matheson	MON	22.4	277	261	-16
52	Zeev Buium	MIN	22.4	278	283	5
53	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	20.9	289	293	4
54	Noah Hanifin	VGK	19.3	302	253	-49
55	Olen Zellweger	ANA	19.2	304	311	7
56	Samuel Girard	COL	18.7	308	298	-10
57	Drew Doughty	LAK	18.5	310	217	-93
58	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	18.4	311	270	-41
59	Gustav Forsling	FLA	18.2	314	368	54
60	Travis Sanheim	PHI	17.9	316	273	-43
61	Rasmus Sandin	WAS	17.5	321	328	7
62	Darnell Nurse	EDM	17.1	325	280	-45
63	Brock Faber	MIN	16.8	327	334	7
64	Sean Durzi	UTA	16.7	331	337	6
65	Mason Lohrei	BOS	16.2	347	412	65

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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Damon Severson	CBJ	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Scott Morrow	CAR
Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	Brady Skjei	NSH
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Justin Barron	NSH
Jordan Spence	LAK	Alexander Romanov	NYI
Logan Mailloux	MON	Zac Jones	NYR
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT
Seamus Casey	NJD	Emil Andrae	PHI
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Ryker Evans	SEA
Braden Schneider	NYR	Henry Thrun	SJS
Cam York	PHI	Darren Raddysh	TBL
Matt Grzelcyk	PIT	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Philip Broberg	STL

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

Dante Fabbro	CBJ	Tristan Luneau	ANA
Nils Lundkvist	DAL	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Alexandre Carrier	MON	Dmitry Orlov	CAR
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ
Scott Perunovich	NYI	Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY
Timothy Liljegren	SJS	Alex Vlasic	CHI
Luca Cagnoni	SJS	Erik Gustafsson	DET
Colton Parayko	STL	Mikey Anderson	LAK
Justin Faulk	STL	Vladislav Gavrikov	LAK
J.J. Moser	TBL	David Reinbacher	MON
Nick Perbix	TBL	Anton Silayev	NJD
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR	Tony DeAngelo	NYI
Topi Niemela	TOR	Egor Zamula	PHI
Michael Kesselring	UTA	Owen Pickering	PIT
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Dmitri Simashev	UTA

UPCOMING GAMES

Mar 14 - 19:03	CAR	vs	DET
Mar 14 - 19:03	NYI	vs	EDM
Mar 14 - 20:03	WPG	vs	DAL
Mar 14 - 21:03	CGY	vs	COL
Mar 14 - 22:03	ANA	vs	NSH
Mar 14 - 22:03	SEA	vs	UTA