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The Top Ranked Defensemen of the 1990s
Notes: Ranking Explanation
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Paul Coffey | 8 |
| 2 | Al MacInnis | 12 |
| 3 | Brian Leetch | 15 |
| 4 | Ray Bourque | 16 |
| 5 | Phil Housley | 24 |
| 6 | Larry Murphy | 38 |
| 7 | Chris Chelios | 40 |
| 8 | Kevin Hatcher | 43 |
| 9 | Nicklas Lidstrom | 44 |
| 10 | Steve Duchesne | 45 |
| 11 | Sergei Zubov | 47 |
| 12 | Gary Suter | 51 |
| 13 | Rob Blake | 54 |
| 14 | Sandis Ozolinsh | 55 |
| 15 | Jeff Brown | 58 |
| 16 | Fredrik Olausson | 77 |
| 17 | Al Iafrate | 78 |
| 18 | Zarley Zalapski | 87 |
| 19 | Scott Stevens | 90 |
| 20 | Eric Desjardins | 95 |
| 21 | Darryl Sydor | 98 |
| 22 | Garry Galley | 100 |
| 23 | Roman Hamrlik | 105 |
| 24 | Teppo Numminen | 109 |
| 25 | James Patrick | 112 |
| 26 | Vladimir Malakhov | 116 |
| 27 | Scott Niedermayer | 119 |
| 28 | Alexei Zhitnik | 131 |
| 29 | Bryan Berard | 135 |
| 30 | Chris Pronger | 137 |
| 31 | Boris Mironov | 138 |
| 32 | Dmitri Mironov | 139 |
| 33 | Oleg Tverdovsky | 152 |
| 34 | Adrian Aucoin | 159 |
| 35 | Robert Svehla | 169 |
| 36 | Steve Smith | 175 |
| 37 | Todd Gill | 176 |
| 38 | Paul Reinhart | 179 |
| 39 | Dan McGillis | 180 |
| 40 | Kenny Jonsson | 181 |
| 41 | Mathieu Schneider | 182 |
| 42 | Jyrki Lumme | 183 |
| 43 | Norm Maciver | 184 |
| 44 | Doug Crossman | 185 |
| 45 | Calle Johansson | 188 |
| 46 | Jason Woolley | 191 |
| 47 | Glen Wesley | 195 |
| 48 | Dave Ellett | 199 |
| 49 | Steve Chiasson | 214 |
| 50 | Tom Kurvers | 216 |
| 51 | Uwe Krupp | 220 |
| 52 | Sylvain Cote | 221 |
| 53 | Jeff Norton | 235 |
| 54 | Yves Racine | 236 |
| 55 | Janne Niinimaa | 238 |
| 56 | Bruce Driver | 242 |
| 57 | Patrice Brisebois | 244 |
| 58 | Mattias Ohlund | 245 |
| 59 | Stephane Quintal | 250 |
| 60 | Sergei Gonchar | 259 |
| 61 | Alexander Karpovtsev | 260 |
| 62 | Gord Murphy | 261 |
| 63 | Igor Kravchuk | 265 |
| 64 | Michel Petit | 268 |
| 65 | Dave Manson | 270 |
| 66 | Derek Morris | 275 |
| 67 | Bill Houlder | 277 |
| 68 | Doug Bodger | 279 |
| 69 | Bobby Dollas | 280 |
| 70 | Alexei Kasatonov | 281 |
| 71 | Viacheslav Fetisov | 288 |
| 72 | Vladimir Konstantinov | 294 |
| 73 | Jason York | 301 |
| 74 | Marty McSorley | 302 |
| 75 | Derian Hatcher | 303 |
| 76 | Paul Cavallini | 304 |
| 77 | Rob Ramage | 306 |
| 78 | Marcus Ragnarsson | 308 |
| 79 | Richard Smehlik | 312 |
| 80 | Grant Ledyard | 315 |
| 81 | Wade Redden | 318 |
| 82 | Doug Lidster | 324 |
| 83 | Lyle Odelein | 325 |
| 84 | Brian Benning | 326 |
| 85 | Bob Beers | 327 |
| 86 | Shawn Chambers | 330 |
| 87 | Mikhail Tatarinov | 331 |
| 88 | Adam Burt | 334 |
| 89 | Don Sweeney | 337 |
| 90 | Eric Weinrich | 340 |
| 91 | Mark Tinordi | 346 |
| 92 | Kerry Huffman | 349 |
| 93 | Greg Hawgood | 351 |
| 94 | Cale Hulse | 353 |
| 95 | Dmitry Yushkevich | 354 |
| 96 | Ed Jovanovski | 356 |
| 97 | Dave Babych | 357 |
| 98 | Bryan McCabe | 367 |
| 99 | Kyle McLaren | 369 |
| 100 | Terry Carkner | 371 |
| 101 | Bret Hedican | 374 |
| 102 | Frantisek Kucera | 378 |
| 103 | Larry Robinson | 379 |
| 104 | Kjell Samuelsson | 387 |
| 105 | Pavel Kubina | 388 |
| 106 | Brad Shaw | 389 |
| 107 | J.J. Daigneault | 390 |
| 108 | Barry Richter | 392 |
| 109 | Jamie Macoun | 395 |
| 110 | Jiri Slegr | 396 |
| 111 | Brad Werenka | 397 |
| 112 | Jon Klemm | 398 |
| 113 | Petr Svoboda | 400 |
| 114 | Anders Eriksson | 401 |
| 115 | Chris Joseph | 406 |
| 116 | Bob Rouse | 408 |
| 117 | Tom Pederson | 409 |
| 118 | Kevin Lowe | 414 |
| 119 | Tommy Albelin | 419 |
| 120 | Tommy Sjodin | 423 |
| 121 | Darryl Shannon | 424 |
| 122 | Sami Salo | 427 |
| 123 | Brad McCrimmon | 428 |
| 124 | Curtis Leschyshyn | 430 |
| 125 | Gerald Diduck | 431 |
| 126 | Frantisek Musil | 432 |
| 127 | Ulf Samuelsson | 433 |
| 128 | Adam Foote | 434 |
| 129 | Craig Wolanin | 439 |
| 130 | Alexei Gusarov | 442 |
| 131 | Tom Poti | 443 |
| 132 | Sylvain Lefebvre | 445 |
| 133 | Paul Stanton | 450 |
| 134 | Garth Butcher | 452 |
| 135 | Keith Carney | 453 |
| 136 | Randy Moller | 456 |
| 137 | Kevin Haller | 459 |
| 138 | Jim Wiemer | 460 |
| 139 | Jamie Heward | 461 |
| 140 | Brian Glynn | 466 |
| 141 | Rick Zombo | 472 |
| 142 | Lee Norwood | 474 |
| 143 | Sean Hill | 475 |
| 144 | Mike Ramsey | 476 |
| 145 | Darren Van Impe | 478 |
| 146 | Aaron Miller | 479 |
| 147 | Keith Brown | 480 |
| 148 | Steve Konroyd | 482 |
| 149 | Moe Mantha | 484 |
| 150 | Luke Richardson | 485 |
| 151 | David Shaw | 487 |
| 152 | Marc Bergevin | 489 |
| 153 | Gary Nylund | 491 |
| 154 | Chris Therien | 495 |
| 155 | Glen Featherstone | 503 |
| 156 | Steven Finn | 504 |
| 157 | Chris Phillips | 505 |
| 158 | Richard Matvichuk | 507 |
| 159 | Ken Daneyko | 508 |
| 160 | Dana Murzyn | 509 |
| 161 | Scott Lachance | 512 |
| 162 | Jassen Cullimore | 515 |
| 163 | Peter Ahola | 517 |
| 164 | Gordie Roberts | 518 |
| 165 | Murray Baron | 519 |
| 166 | Eric Messier | 520 |
| 167 | Ruslan Salei | 522 |
| 168 | Ken Sutton | 525 |
| 169 | Trent Yawney | 526 |
| 170 | Charlie Huddy | 528 |
| 171 | Cory Cross | 529 |
| 172 | Darius Kasparaitis | 531 |
| 173 | Jay Wells | 539 |
| 174 | Karl Dykhuis | 541 |
| 175 | Joe Reekie | 542 |
| 176 | Janne Laukkanen | 544 |
| 177 | Joel Bouchard | 545 |
| 178 | Sergei Bautin | 548 |
| 179 | Sean O'Donnell | 549 |
| 180 | Jason Smith | 551 |
| 181 | Drake Berehowsky | 552 |
| 182 | Jaroslav Modry | 553 |
| 183 | Mike O'Connell | 554 |
| 184 | Mike Rathje | 557 |
| 185 | Greg de Vries | 559 |
| 186 | Craig Muni | 560 |
| 187 | Jaroslav Spacek | 561 |
| 188 | Mattias Norstrom | 563 |
| 189 | Dennis Vaske | 566 |
| 190 | Drew Bannister | 569 |
| 191 | Jim Johnson (1962) | 571 |
| 192 | Mike Lalor | 575 |
| 193 | Mario Marois | 576 |
| 194 | Neil Wilkinson | 578 |
| 195 | Michal Sykora | 580 |
| 196 | David Wilkie | 582 |
| 197 | Bryan Marchment | 584 |
| 198 | Alexander Godynyuk | 585 |
| 199 | Geoff Smith | 588 |
| 200 | Jeff Beukeboom | 591 |
| 201 | Roger Johansson | 593 |
| 202 | Dean Kennedy | 594 |
| 203 | Nolan Pratt | 596 |
| 204 | Rick Green | 597 |
| 205 | Steve Staios | 598 |
| 206 | Eric Brewer | 600 |
| 207 | Randy Hillier | 601 |
| 208 | Chris Dahlquist | 603 |
| 209 | Curt Giles | 604 |
| 210 | Dan Keczmer | 605 |
| 211 | Dave Karpa | 608 |
| 212 | Christian Laflamme | 609 |
| 213 | Randy Ladouceur | 612 |
| 214 | Bob Boughner | 614 |
| 215 | Joe Cirella | 615 |
| 216 | Craig Ludwig | 619 |
| 217 | Darren Rumble | 620 |
| 218 | Igor Ulanov | 621 |
| 219 | Gord Dineen | 622 |
| 220 | Randy Velischek | 623 |
| 221 | Rhett Warrener | 625 |
| 222 | Jim Paek | 626 |
| 223 | Bob McGill | 629 |
| 224 | Doug Zmolek | 635 |
| 225 | Mike Wilson | 641 |
| 226 | Chris Tamer | 644 |
| 227 | Jason Marshall | 645 |
| 228 | Brad Marsh | 647 |
| 229 | Lance Pitlick | 651 |
| 230 | Rod Langway | 652 |
| 231 | Jamie Pushor | 653 |
| 232 | Brian Curran | 654 |
| 233 | Doug Houda | 655 |
| 234 | Tim Watters | 658 |
| 235 | Hal Gill | 659 |
| 236 | Grant Jennings | 660 |
| 237 | Randy Carlyle | 663 |
| 238 | Peter Popovic | 665 |
| 239 | Robert Dirk | 666 |
| 240 | Dmitri Tertyshny | 668 |
| 241 | Jeff Chychrun | 669 |
| 242 | Kevin Dean | 670 |
| 243 | Todd Simpson | 673 |
| 244 | Shawn Cronin | 675 |
| 245 | Craig Rivet | 676 |
| 246 | Enrico Ciccone | 677 |
| 247 | Rob Zettler | 678 |
| 248 | Ryan McGill | 679 |
| 249 | Brendan Witt | 681 |
| 250 | Mark Hardy | 682 |
| 251 | Peter Taglianetti | 683 |
| 252 | Jay More | 684 |
| 253 | Rich Pilon | 687 |
| 254 | Jeff Finley | 688 |
| 255 | Brent Severyn | 695 |
| 256 | Gord Donnelly | 698 |
| 257 | Paul Laus | 701 |
| 258 | Jamie Huscroft | 704 |
| 259 | David Harlock | 706 |
| 260 | Chris Luongo | 707 |
| 261 | Aki Berg | 709 |
| 262 | Stan Neckar | 713 |
| 263 | Jon Rohloff | 719 |
| 264 | Allen Pedersen | 722 |
| 265 | Francois Leroux | 727 |
| 266 | Brad Brown | 731 |
| 267 | John Gruden | 733 |
| 268 | Larry Melnyk | 734 |
| 269 | Sheldon Souray | 735 |
| 270 | Jamie Rivers | 739 |
| 271 | Rudy Poeschek | 742 |
| 272 | Eric Charron | 745 |
| 273 | Cam Russell | 750 |
| 274 | Brett Clark | 757 |
| 275 | Jay McKee | 767 |
| 276 | Brad Berry | 794 |
| 277 | Pavel Trnka | 795 |
| 278 | Jason Strudwick | 811 |
| 279 | Stewart Malgunas | 822 |
| 280 | Dennis Vial | 823 |
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