Top 85 NHL Fantasy Defensemen
Ranking criteria
• Goals and assists recent season
• Proven / Unproven – Ex. Dustin Byfuglien is a proven consistent scorer.
• Upside / Downside
• Age – Hitting his prime? Old and numbers are slipping?
• Team Dynamics – Are they playing on a strong team or a weak team?
• Proneness to Injury
Please Note
My list is based on the following point system: Goals (1 point), and Assists (1 point).
Last Updated: October 21, 2013
| Rank | Player | Team | Pos |
| 1 | Erik Karlsson | OTT | D |
| 2 | Kris Letang | PIT | D |
| 3 | P.K. Subban | MTL | D |
| 4 | Dustin Byfuglien | WPG | D |
| 5 | Keith Yandle | PHX | D |
| 6 | Ryan Suter | MIN | D |
| 7 | Alex Pietrangelo | STL | D |
| 8 | Shea Weber | NSH | D |
| 9 | Zdeno Chara | BOS | D |
| 10 | Duncan Keith | CHI | D |
| 11 | Niklas Kronwall | DET | D |
| 12 | Brian Campbell | FLA | D |
| 13 | Justin Schultz | EDM | D |
| 14 | Mark Streit | PHI | D |
| 15 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | PHX | D |
| 16 | Dion Phaneuf | TOR | D |
| 17 | Kevin Shattenkirk | STL | D |
| 18 | Tobias Enstrom | WPG | D |
| 19 | Mike Green | WSH | D |
| 20 | Cody Franson | TOR | D |
| 21 | Andrei Markov | MTL | D |
| 22 | Drew Doughty | LAK | D |
| 23 | Alexander Edler | VAN | D |
| 24 | Paul Martin | PIT | D |
| 25 | Dan Hamhuis | VAN | D |
| 26 | Slava Voynov | LAK | D |
| 27 | Jack Johnson | CBJ | D |
| 28 | Michael Del Zotto | NYR | D |
| 29 | Dan Boyle | SJS | D |
| 30 | John Carlson | WSH | D |
| 31 | Sergei Gonchar | DAL | D |
| 32 | Dennis Wideman | CGY | D |
| 33 | Victor Hedman | TBL | D |
| 34 | Alex Goligoski | DAL | D |
| 35 | Matthew Carle | TBL | D |
| 36 | Nick Leddy | CHI | D |
| 37 | Christian Ehrhoff | BUF | D |
| 38 | Brent Seabrook | CHI | D |
| 39 | Zach Bogosian | WPG | D |
| 40 | Fedor Tyutin | CBJ | D |
| 41 | Dougie Hamilton | BOS | D |
| 42 | Kimmo Timonen | PHI | D |
| 43 | Roman Josi | NSH | D |
| 44 | James Wisniewski | CBJ | D |
| 45 | Lubomir Visnovsky | NYI | D |
| 46 | Francois Beauchemin | ANA | D |
| 47 | Jay Bouwmeester | STL | D |
| 48 | Justin Faulk | CAR | D |
| 49 | Patrick Wiercioch | OTT | D |
| 50 | Ryan McDonagh | NYR | D |
| 51 | Mark Giordano | CGY | D |
| 52 | Dmitry Kulikov | FLA | D |
| 53 | Marek Zidlicky | NJD | D |
| 54 | Dennis Seidenberg | BOS | D |
| 55 | Carl Gunnarsson | TOR | D |
| 56 | Jake Gardiner | TOR | D |
| 57 | Raphael Diaz | MTL | D |
| 58 | Jonas Brodin | MIN | D |
| 59 | Seth Jones | NSH | D |
| 60 | Jeff Petry | EDM | D |
| 61 | Erik Johnson | COL | D |
| 62 | TJ Brodie | CGY | D |
| 63 | Matt Niskanen | PIT | D |
| 64 | Jared Spurgeon | MIN | D |
| 65 | Jake Muzzin | LAK | D |
| 66 | Marc Staal | NYR | D |
| 67 | Cam Fowler | ANA | D |
| 68 | Jason Garrison | VAN | D |
| 69 | Jacob Trouba | WPG | D |
| 70 | Morgan Rielly | TOR | D |
| 71 | Tyler Myers | BUF | D |
| 72 | Tyson Barrie | COL | D |
| 73 | Jamie McBain | BUF | D |
| 74 | Jakub Kindl | DET | D |
| 75 | Kevin Bieksa | VAN | D |
| 76 | Ryan Murray | CBJ | D |
| 77 | Joe Corvo | OTT | D |
| 78 | John-Michael Liles | TOR | D |
| 79 | Travis Hamonic | NYI | D |
| 80 | Nikita Nikitin | CBJ | D |
| 81 | Dan Girardi | NYR | D |
| 82 | Andrej Sekera | CAR | D |
| 83 | Adam Larsson | NJD | D |
| 84 | Andy Greene | NJD | D |
| 85 | Sami Salo | TBL | D |
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