Week 17: Fantasy defenseman top 50 rankings for 2018-19

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FANTASY TOP 50 DEFENSEMAN RANKINGS

Standard Yahoo categories include goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal and now hits for skaters. ... Value has been quantified based on factors including but not limited to past production, defense pairs, power-play usage, injury history, sleeper, bounce-back or breakout potential, anticipated regression, age and contract status (potential 2019 UFA: \; RFA: \\). DTD indicates players with day-to-day injury concerns.*

1. Brent Burns, SJS (SAME)
2. Erik Karlsson, SJS* (DTD)
3. Morgan Rielly, TOR (+1)
4. John Carlson, WSH (-1)
5. Kris Letang, PIT (+2)
6. Mark Giordano, CGY (-1)
7. Victor Hedman, TBL (-1)
8. Seth Jones, CBJ (SAME)
9. Dustin Byfuglien, WPG (SAME)
10. Roman Josi, NSH (+3)
11. Torey Krug, BOS (SAME)
12. John Klingberg, DAL (-2)
13. Thomas Chabot, OTT (+1)
14. Shea Weber, MTL (+1)
15. Mattias Ekholm, NSH (+1)
16. Rasmus Ristolainen, BUF (+2)
17. P.K. Subban, NSH (SAME)
18. Keith Yandle, FLA (+1)
19. Tyson Barrie, COL (-7)
20. Ryan Suter, MIN (+1)
21. Jake Muzzin, TOR (+1)
22. Drew Doughty, LAK (+1)
23. Jeff Petry, MTL (-3)
24. Rasmus Dahlin, BUF (SAME)
25. Ryan Ellis, NSH (+1)
26. Oliver Ekman-Larsson, ARI (-1)
27. Zach Werenski, CBJ\\ (SAME)
28. Charlie McAvoy, BOS\\ (+11)
29. Erik Gustafsson, CHI (+1)
30. Aaron Ekblad, FLA (-2)
31. Shayne Gostisbehere, PHI (+1)
32. Jacob Trouba, WPG\\ (+1)
33. Jared Spurgeon, MIN (+2)
34. Miro Heiskanen, DAL (+6)
35. Dougie Hamilton, CAR (-4)
36. Jake Gardiner, TOR* (-7)
37. Ryan Pulock, NYI (+10)
38. Josh Morrissey, WPG (+11)
39. Justin Schultz, PIT (DTD)
40. TJ Brodie, CGY (+1)
41. Alexander Edler, VAN* (DTD)
42. Darnell Nurse, EDM (-5)
43. Alex Pietrangelo, STL (-5)
44. Colton Parayko, STL (NEW)
45. Ryan McDonagh, TBL (-3)
46. Mike Matheson, FLA (NEW)
47. Vince Dunn, STL (NEW)
48. Shea Theodore, VGK (-4)
49. Jordan Oesterle, ARI* (NEW)
50. Erik Johnson, COL (NEW)

Dropped out:Mike Green, DET; Oscar Klefbom, EDM; Mikhail Sergachev, TBL; Jaccob Slavin, CAR; Justin Faulk, CAR
Key injury: Matt Dumba, MIN Just Missed:Colin Miller, VGK; Brent Seabrook, CHI; Matt Niskanen, WSH; Nate Schmidt, VGK\; Ivan Provorov, PHI\\; Esa Lindell, DAL
READ: Last week's Top 50 defenseman rankings

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