NHL defensemen bracket

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1

Victor Hedman

2

Drew Doughty

3

Erik Karlsson

4

Brent Burns

5

Roman Josi

6

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

7

Rasmus Dahlin

8

Adam Fox

9

Kris Letang

10

Aaron Ekblad

11

Cam Fowler

12

Alex Pietrangelo

13

Noah Hanifin

14

Zach Werenski

15

Ryan McDonagh

16

Justin Faulk

–

Seth Jones

–

Tyler Myers

–

Radko Gudas

–

Josh Morrissey

–

Colton Parayko

–

John Carlson

–

Olli Maatta

–

Shea Theodore

–

Mattias Ekholm

–

Jonas Brodin

–

Jonas Siegenthaler

–

Rasmus Ristolainen

–

Nikita Zadorov

–

Connor Murphy

–

Dougie Hamilton

–

Adam Larsson

–

Dmitry Orlov

–

Hampus Lindholm

–

Jaccob Slavin

–

Zach Bogosian

–

Mike Matheson

–

Luke Schenn

–

Devon Toews

–

Marcus Pettersson

–

Thomas Chabot

–

Nate Schmidt

–

Brayden McNabb

–

Haydn Fleury

–

Erik Gudbranson

–

Ian Cole

–

Josh Manson

–

Gustav Forsling

–

Cody Ceci

–

Jamie Oleksiak

–

Zach Whitecloud

–

Jared Spurgeon

–

Brandon Montour

–

Mike Reilly

–

Ben Chiarot

–

Mario Ferraro

–

Dante Fabbro

–

Logan Stanley

–

Ryan Pulock

–

Andrew Peeke

–

Dylan DeMelo

–

Simon Nemec

–

Brock Faber

–

Alexandre Carrier

–

Jake Sanderson

–

Jackson LaCombe

–

Cale Fleury

–

David Jiricek

–

Dylan Coghlan

–

Tyler Kleven

–

Drew Helleson

–

Travis Mitchell

–

Tristan Luneau

–

Noah Warren

–

Pavel Mintyukov

–

Ian Moore

–

Tyson Hinds

–

Charlie McAvoy

–

Will Borgen

–

Frederic Brunet

–

Mason Lohrei

–

Connor Clifton

–

Jonathan Aspirot

–

Mattias Samuelsson

–

Olen Zellweger

–

Owen Power

–

Conor Timmins

–

Zach Metsa

–

Louis Crevier

–

Matt Grzelcyk

–

Jalen Chatfield

–

K'Andre Miller

–

Sean Walker

–

AN

Alexander Nikishin

–

Shayne Gostisbehere

–

Juuso Valimaki

–

Damon Severson

–

Denton Mateychuk

–

Ivan Provorov

–

Jake Christiansen

–

Joel Hanley

–

Jake Middleton

–

Yan Kuznetsov

–

Zayne Parekh

–

Brayden Pachal

–

Kevin Bahl

–

Alex Vlasic

–

Artyom Levshunov

–

Ethan Del Mastro

–

Sam Rinzel

–

Wyatt Kaiser

–

Kevin Korchinski

–

Bowen Byram

–

Brett Kulak

–

Cale Makar

–

Sam Malinski

–

Noah Juulsen

–

AG

Alex Gagne

–

Nils Lundkvist

–

Thomas Harley

–

Esa Lindell

–

Lian Bichsel

–

Miro Heiskanen

–

Kyle Capobianco

–

LK

Luke Krys

–

Moritz Seider

–

William Wallinder

–

Andreas Englund

–

Anton Johansson

–

Albert Johansson

–

Jacob Bernard-Docker

–

Simon Edvinsson

–

Evan Bouchard

–

Ryan Shea

–

Shakir Mukhamadullin

–

Ty Emberson

–

Alec Regula

–

Jake Walman

–

Niko Mikkola

–

Uvis Balinskis

–

Dmitry Kulikov

–

Brandt Clarke

–

Joel Edmundson

–

Brian Dumoulin

–

Mikey Anderson

–

Quinn Hughes

–

David Spacek

–

Matt Kiersted

–

Lane Hutson

–

Noah Dobson

–

Kaiden Guhle

–

Adam Engstrom

–

Arber Xhekaj

–

Brett Pesce

–

Luke Hughes

–

Declan Chisholm

–

Johnathan Kovacevic

–

Seamus Casey

–

Adam Wilsby

–

Brady Skjei

–

Nick Perbix

–

Daemon Hunt

–

Jayden Struble

–

Ilya Lyubushkin

–

Nicolas Hague

–

William Trudeau

–

Adam Pelech

–

Matthew Schaefer

–

Tony DeAngelo

–

Ben Hutton

–

Matthew Kessel

–

Scott Mayfield

–

Alexander Romanov

–

Vladislav Gavrikov

–

Braden Schneider

–

Matthew Robertson

–

Scott Morrow

–

Marc Del Gaizo

–

Sean Durzi

–

Alberts Smits

–

Artem Zub

–

Jordan Spence

–

Nikolas Matinpalo

–

Carter Yakemchuk

–

Jamie Drysdale

–

Travis Sanheim

–

Cam York

–

Oliver Bonk

–

Nick Seeler

–

Simon Benoit

–

Spencer Stastney

–

Kaedan Korczak

–

Samuel Girard

–

Declan Carlile

–

Ilya Solovyov

–

Trevor van Riemsdyk

–

Ryan Graves

–

Vince Dunn

–

Ryker Evans

–

Joshua Mahura

Top NHL defensemen — November 2026

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A knockout bracket: pick the winner of every matchup, round by round, until one is left.

Every current NHL defensemen, best known first.

Every pick and every finished ranking here counts toward the top NHL defensemen for November 2026.

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