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

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As always, players valued within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Jul	Jun	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	176.6	15	15	0
2	Quinn Hughes	MIN	170.5	18	19	1
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	169.8	21	20	-1
4	Lane Hutson	MON	151.1	34	35	1
5	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	140.0	38	38	0
6	Zach Werenski	CBJ	135.3	42	41	-1
7	Matthew Schaefer	NYI	100.1	74	75	1
8	Josh Morrissey	WPG	98.8	76	74	-2
9	Adam Fox	NYR	97.5	77	76	-1
10	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	93.8	80	79	-1
11	Mikhail Sergachev	UTA	93.2	82	81	-1
12	Jake Sanderson	OTT	86.9	96	93	-3
13	Noah Dobson	MON	86.5	97	98	1
14	Moritz Seider	DET	85.1	101	96	-5
15	Jakob Chychrun	WAS	81.3	108	107	-1
16	Shea Theodore	VGK	81.1	111	106	-5
17	Darren Raddysh	TOR	80.0	114	101	-13
18	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	78.6	119	114	-5
19	Erik Karlsson	PIT	73.5	123	120	-3
20	Cole Hutson	WAS	70.9	129	131	2
21	Bowen Byram	CHI	70.5	131	177	46
22	John Carlson	TBL	67.9	140	151	11
23	Victor Hedman	TBL	66.3	141	139	-2
24	Jackson Lacombe	ANA	65.3	144	141	-3
25	Thomas Harley	DAL	65.3	145	136	-9
26	Vince Dunn	SEA	63.4	147	145	-2
27	Luke Hughes	NJD	63.2	148	152	4
28	Shayne Gostisbehere	CAR	58.6	162	157	-5
29	Brandt Clarke	LAK	56.7	166	164	-2
30	Brock Faber	MIN	55.5	169	167	-2
31	Filip Hronek	VAN	54.4	172	168	-4
32	Artyom Levshunov	CHI	51.7	175	171	-4
33	Roman Josi	NSH	49.1	185	179	-6
34	Simon Nemec	CGY	48.8	188	188	0
35	Jamie Drysdale	PHI	48.0	191	195	4
36	Axel Sandin Pellikka	DET	43.4	203	204	1
37	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	43.0	205	206	1
38	Zayne Parekh	CGY	42.1	209	212	3
39	Rasmus Andersson	VGK	41.0	216	207	-9
40	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	40.5	219	215	-4
41	Zeev Buium	VAN	38.3	227	227	0
42	Owen Power	BUF	37.9	229	233	4
43	Noah Hanifin	VGK	35.8	236	231	-5
44	Chase Reid	SEA	31.7	246	NR	NEW
45	Seth Jones	FLA	31.2	248	244	-4
46	Thomas Chabot	OTT	29.2	257	252	-5
47	Mattias Samuelsson	BUF	28.1	261	NR	NEW
48	Sean Durzi	NYR	27.8	264	242	-22
49	Sam Dickinson	SJS	27.6	266	266	0
50	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	27.6	268	254	-14
51	K’Andre Miller	CAR	27.5	269	262	-7
52	Mike Matheson	MON	26.1	275	272	-3
53	Jordan Spence	OTT	24.8	288	274	-14
54	Brandon Montour	SEA	22.4	299	287	-12
55	Morgan Rielly	TOR	21.5	309	294	-15
56	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	20.8	316	299	-17
57	Carter Yakemchuk	OTT	20.8	317	313	-4
58	Xavier Villeneuve	CHI	18.4	333	NR	NEW
59	Devon Toews	COL	18.1	338	321	-17
60	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	18.1	339	331	-8
61	Olen Zellweger	BUF	17.7	344	354	10
62	Philip Broberg	STL	17.3	356	337	-19
63	Tom Willander	VAN	17.2	359	356	-3
64	Gustav Forsling	FLA	16.8	363	333	-30
65	Mackenzie Weegar	UTA	16.6	367	332	-35

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

Ivan Provorov	CBJ	Damon Severson	CBJ
Carson Carels	CGY	Sam Malinski	COL
Simon Edvinsson	DET	Justin Faulk	DET
Jake Walman	EDM	Drew Doughty	LAK
Mattias Ekholm	EDM	Seamus Casey	NJD
Kaiden Guhle	MON	Scott Morrow	NYR
Tanner Molendyk	NSH	Alberts Smits	NYR
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Cam York	PHI
Ryker Evans	SEA	Michael Kesselring	SJS
Logan Mailloux	STL	Keaton Verhoeff	SJS
Charle-Edouard D’Astous	TBL	Emil Andrae	TOR
J.J. Moser	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

Mason Lohrei	BOS	Maxim Strbak	BUF
Radim Mrtka	BUF	Jaccob Slavin	CAR
Hunter Brzustewicz	CGY	Jackson Smith	CBJ
Sam Rinzel	CHI	Sean Behrens	COL
Kevin Korchinski	CHI	Nils Lundkvist	DAL
Ryan Ufko	NSH	Cameron Reid	NSH
Thomas Bleyl	NSH	Brady Skjei	NSH
Tony DeAngelo	NYI	David Jiricek	PHI
Kashawn Aitcheson	NYI	Samuel Girard	PIT
Tyson Jugnauth	SEA	Harrison Brunicke	PIT
Darnell Nurse	SJS	Lukas Dragicevic	SEA
Dmitri Simashev	UTA	Luca Cagnoni	SJS
Timothy Liljegren	WAS	Theo Lindstein	STL
Elias Salomonsson	WPG	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	TOR
Neal Pionk	WPG	Alfons Freij	WPG