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

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For this month, the rankings just some minor tweaks as news in August was minimal. As always, players between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal preference (upside, certainty, depth chart, injury risk, team, etc.)

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Def RankPlayerTeamRatingSepAugChange

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Sep	Aug	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	180.9	11	10	-1
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	159.4	20	21	1
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	135.9	33	33	0
4	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	128.1	41	40	-1
5	Adam Fox	NYR	120.3	46	46	0
6	Lane Hutson	MON	109.4	61	60	-1
7	Zach Werenski	CBJ	103.7	65	65	0
8	Josh Morrissey	WPG	101.4	68	68	0
9	Noah Dobson	MON	99.1	69	69	0
10	Victor Hedman	TBL	93.4	73	73	0
11	Shea Theodore	VGK	81.2	94	101	7
12	Jake Sanderson	OTT	81.0	97	95	-2
13	Moritz Seider	DET	78.9	104	103	-1
14	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	76.7	106	106	0
15	Thomas Harley	DAL	76.0	109	108	-1
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	72.1	114	114	0
17	Luke Hughes	NJD	69.7	120	117	-3
18	Roman Josi	NSH	61.6	135	135	0
19	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	60.5	139	139	0
20	Erik Karlsson	PIT	57.9	144	145	1
21	Vince Dunn	SEA	56.1	152	152	0
22	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	53.4	158	158	0
23	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	52.8	159	159	0
24	Brandt Clarke	LAK	52.3	161	161	0
25	Zayne Parekh	CGY	51.6	163	162	-1
26	John Carlson	WAS	50.3	169	168	-1
27	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	47.5	177	176	-1
28	Zeev Buium	MIN	45.2	189	188	-1
29	Filip Hronek	VAN	44.3	193	192	-1
30	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	42.7	197	200	3
31	Bowen Byram	BUF	42.7	198	198	0
32	Thomas Chabot	OTT	42.4	199	199	0
33	Noah Hanifin	VGK	42.3	200	204	4
34	Devon Toews	COL	41.2	201	196	-5
35	Owen Power	BUF	40.2	205	205	0
36	Brandon Montour	SEA	38.2	211	211	0
37	Simon Nemec	NJD	37.6	212	213	1
38	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	35.7	217	217	0
39	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	35.3	219	219	0
40	Morgan Rielly	TOR	35.0	222	222	0
41	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	33.8	227	226	-1
42	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	33.8	228	227	-1
43	Seth Jones	FLA	33.7	230	229	-1
44	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	33.6	231	230	-1
45	Cam Fowler	STL	30.2	245	245	0
46	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	30.2	246	246	0
47	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	29.9	247	247	0
48	Sean Durzi	UTA	29.7	248	248	0
49	Brock Faber	MIN	27.4	254	253	-1
50	Drew Doughty	LAK	25.8	261	271	10
51	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	24.6	267	266	-1
52	Gustav Forsling	FLA	24.4	269	268	-1
53	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	23.3	275	276	1
54	Neal Pionk	WPG	22.7	279	280	1
55	Simon Edvinsson	DET	22.4	285	285	0
56	Cole Hutson	WAS	22.1	289	289	0
57	Jake Walman	EDM	22.1	290	290	0
58	K’Andre Miller	CAR	20.8	301	299	-2
59	Jordan Spence	OTT	20.3	310	308	-2
60	Tony DeAngelo	NYI	19.6	315	314	-1
61	Michael Kesselring	BUF	18.4	329	327	-2
62	Ivan Provorov	CBJ	18.1	332	330	-2
63	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	17.6	334	350	16
64	Mike Matheson	MON	17.5	337	334	-3
65	Darnell Nurse	EDM	17.3	341	338	-3

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

Mason Lohrei	BOS	Olen Zellweger	ANA
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Kevin Korchinski	CHI	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Seamus Casey	NJD
David Jiricek	MIN	Scott Morrow	NYR
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Emil Andrae	PHI
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Ryker Evans	SEA
Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	Luca Cagnoni	SJS
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Sam Dickinson	SJS
Philip Broberg	STL	Timothy Liljegren	SJS
Logan Mailloux	STL	Colton Parayko	STL
Darren Raddysh	TBL	Lukas Cormier	VGK
Rasmus Sandin	WAS

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

Tristan Luneau	ANA	Hampus Lindholm	BOS
Zac Jones	BUF	Conor Timmins	BUF
Dante Fabbro	CBJ	Lian Bichsel	DAL
Damon Severson	CBJ	Erik Gustafsson	DET
Alex Vlasic	CHI	Anton Silayev	NJD
Samuel Girard	COL	Nicolas Hague	NSH
Brady Skjei	NSH	Adam Boqvist	NYI
Justin Barron	NSH	Vladislav Gavrikov	NYR
Alexander Romanov	NYI	Artem Zub	OTT
Braden Schneider	NYR	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Cam York	PHI	Ryan Graves	PIT
Owen Pickering	PIT	Henry Thrun	TOR
Justin Faulk	STL	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR
J.J. Moser	TBL	Matt Grzelcyk	UFA
Dmitri Simashev	UTA	Marcus Pettersson	VAN