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The Top Ranked Defensemen of the 2000s
Notes: Ranking Explanation
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Nicklas Lidstrom | 9 |
| 2 | Sergei Gonchar | 11 |
| 3 | Scott Niedermayer | 19 |
| 4 | Rob Blake | 23 |
| 5 | Chris Pronger | 24 |
| 6 | Bryan McCabe | 32 |
| 7 | Zdeno Chara | 33 |
| 8 | Dan Boyle | 36 |
| 9 | Mathieu Schneider | 41 |
| 10 | Sergei Zubov | 49 |
| 11 | Tomas Kaberle | 63 |
| 12 | Brian Rafalski | 64 |
| 13 | Dion Phaneuf | 66 |
| 14 | Sandis Ozolinsh | 67 |
| 15 | Andrei Markov | 69 |
| 16 | Sheldon Souray | 73 |
| 17 | Ed Jovanovski | 80 |
| 18 | Kimmo Timonen | 83 |
| 19 | Brian Leetch | 87 |
| 20 | Wade Redden | 91 |
| 21 | Lubomir Visnovsky | 96 |
| 22 | Al MacInnis | 102 |
| 23 | Roman Hamrlik | 103 |
| 24 | Marek Zidlicky | 104 |
| 25 | Brian Campbell | 106 |
| 26 | Mark Streit | 122 |
| 27 | Derek Morris | 127 |
| 28 | Ray Bourque | 128 |
| 29 | Adrian Aucoin | 129 |
| 30 | Tom Poti | 132 |
| 31 | Eric Desjardins | 134 |
| 32 | Kim Johnsson | 135 |
| 33 | Sean Hill | 136 |
| 34 | Teppo Numminen | 142 |
| 35 | Phil Housley | 144 |
| 36 | Philippe Boucher | 146 |
| 37 | Robert Svehla | 147 |
| 38 | Shea Weber | 148 |
| 39 | Ryan Whitney | 155 |
| 40 | Oleg Tverdovsky | 158 |
| 41 | Paul Coffey | 171 |
| 42 | Dick Tarnstrom | 177 |
| 43 | Mike Green | 183 |
| 44 | Andy Delmore | 200 |
| 45 | Joe Corvo | 204 |
| 46 | Dennis Wideman | 205 |
| 47 | Brent Sopel | 206 |
| 48 | Steve Duchesne | 219 |
| 49 | Pavel Kubina | 220 |
| 50 | Jaroslav Spacek | 223 |
| 51 | Brent Burns | 227 |
| 52 | John-Michael Liles | 235 |
| 53 | Mike Van Ryn | 237 |
| 54 | Dan McGillis | 238 |
| 55 | Paul Mara | 246 |
| 56 | Larry Murphy | 247 |
| 57 | Dustin Byfuglien | 248 |
| 58 | Brad Stuart | 249 |
| 59 | Fredrik Olausson | 258 |
| 60 | Jaroslav Modry | 259 |
| 61 | Niklas Kronwall | 260 |
| 62 | Jyrki Lumme | 263 |
| 63 | Mattias Ohlund | 265 |
| 64 | Jay Bouwmeester | 270 |
| 65 | Nathan Dempsey | 277 |
| 66 | Janne Niinimaa | 279 |
| 67 | Dmitri Kalinin | 283 |
| 68 | Marc-Andre Bergeron | 284 |
| 69 | Darryl Sydor | 285 |
| 70 | Kevin Bieksa | 287 |
| 71 | Michal Rozsival | 294 |
| 72 | Patrice Brisebois | 300 |
| 73 | Bryan Berard | 302 |
| 74 | Jordan Leopold | 305 |
| 75 | Duncan Keith | 310 |
| 76 | Adam Foote | 315 |
| 77 | Drake Berehowsky | 317 |
| 78 | Ryan Suter | 318 |
| 79 | Anton Babchuk | 319 |
| 80 | Tom Preissing | 322 |
| 81 | Chris Chelios | 323 |
| 82 | Sylvain Cote | 324 |
| 83 | Matt Carle | 327 |
| 84 | Filip Kuba | 330 |
| 85 | Tom Gilbert | 331 |
| 86 | Jiri Slegr | 333 |
| 87 | Christian Ehrhoff | 334 |
| 88 | Sami Salo | 337 |
| 89 | Braydon Coburn | 338 |
| 90 | Danny Markov | 339 |
| 91 | Kenny Jonsson | 340 |
| 92 | Andrej Meszaros | 341 |
| 93 | Niclas Havelid | 343 |
| 94 | Jason Woolley | 344 |
| 95 | Alexei Zhitnik | 346 |
| 96 | Yannick Tremblay | 348 |
| 97 | Nick Boynton | 355 |
| 98 | Lubomir Sekeras | 356 |
| 99 | Gary Suter | 357 |
| 100 | Alexander Edler | 360 |
| 101 | Joni Pitkanen | 363 |
| 102 | Cam Barker | 366 |
| 103 | Calle Johansson | 367 |
| 104 | Toby Enstrom | 368 |
| 105 | Frantisek Kaberle | 371 |
| 106 | Martin Skoula | 372 |
| 107 | Garry Galley | 373 |
| 108 | Denis Grebeshkov | 375 |
| 109 | Alexander Khavanov | 379 |
| 110 | Anders Eriksson | 384 |
| 111 | Brett Clark | 386 |
| 112 | Jason York | 388 |
| 113 | Ron Hainsey | 390 |
| 114 | Paul Ranger | 397 |
| 115 | Scott Stevens | 398 |
| 116 | Brent Seabrook | 401 |
| 117 | Keith Ballard | 404 |
| 118 | Craig Rivet | 405 |
| 119 | Steve Staios | 406 |
| 120 | Jamie Heward | 407 |
| 121 | Ken Klee | 410 |
| 122 | Kris Letang | 412 |
| 123 | Eric Weinrich | 415 |
| 124 | Derian Hatcher | 419 |
| 125 | Dan Hamhuis | 421 |
| 126 | Greg de Vries | 422 |
| 127 | Erik Johnson | 423 |
| 128 | Fedor Tyutin | 424 |
| 129 | Kyle Quincey | 425 |
| 130 | Karel Rachunek | 427 |
| 131 | Marc-Edouard Vlasic | 428 |
| 132 | Eric Brewer | 430 |
| 133 | Chris Campoli | 431 |
| 134 | Francois Beauchemin | 432 |
| 135 | David Tanabe | 434 |
| 136 | Matt Niskanen | 437 |
| 137 | Dan Girardi | 439 |
| 138 | Toni Lydman | 441 |
| 139 | Darryl Shannon | 443 |
| 140 | Paul Martin | 445 |
| 141 | Mike Rathje | 446 |
| 142 | Vladimir Malakhov | 448 |
| 143 | Mathieu Dandenault | 449 |
| 144 | Darren Van Impe | 450 |
| 145 | Randy Jones | 456 |
| 146 | Deron Quint | 458 |
| 147 | Ruslan Salei | 461 |
| 148 | Bret Hedican | 463 |
| 149 | Stephane Robidas | 474 |
| 150 | Dmitry Yushkevich | 475 |
| 151 | Chris Phillips | 482 |
| 152 | Brian Pothier | 483 |
| 153 | Patrick Traverse | 484 |
| 154 | Andrei Zyuzin | 485 |
| 155 | Ian White | 487 |
| 156 | Mike Commodore | 488 |
| 157 | Andy Sutton | 489 |
| 158 | Richard Matvichuk | 492 |
| 159 | Nolan Baumgartner | 493 |
| 160 | Glen Wesley | 494 |
| 161 | James Wisniewski | 495 |
| 162 | Igor Kravchuk | 498 |
| 163 | Johnny Oduya | 499 |
| 164 | Cory Cross | 505 |
| 165 | Dennis Seidenberg | 506 |
| 166 | Keith Carney | 511 |
| 167 | Ric Jackman | 512 |
| 168 | Christoph Schubert | 514 |
| 169 | Keith Yandle | 517 |
| 170 | Petr Svoboda | 518 |
| 171 | Radoslav Suchy | 519 |
| 172 | Scott Hannan | 520 |
| 173 | Kyle McLaren | 521 |
| 174 | Karl Dykhuis | 523 |
| 175 | Steve Montador | 524 |
| 176 | Kevin Hatcher | 527 |
| 177 | Jason Smith | 530 |
| 178 | Carlo Colaiacovo | 534 |
| 179 | Greg Hawgood | 535 |
| 180 | Boris Mironov | 537 |
| 181 | Marek Malik | 539 |
| 182 | Sean O'Donnell | 540 |
| 183 | Drew Doughty | 541 |
| 184 | Jonathan Girard | 542 |
| 185 | Zbynek Michalek | 543 |
| 186 | Daniel Tjarnqvist | 545 |
| 187 | Igor Ulanov | 546 |
| 188 | Andrew Ference | 547 |
| 189 | Lyle Odelein | 549 |
| 190 | Trevor Daley | 550 |
| 191 | Steve Eminger | 552 |
| 192 | Bryan Muir | 554 |
| 193 | Dmitri Mironov | 555 |
| 194 | Duvie Westcott | 558 |
| 195 | Rostislav Klesla | 561 |
| 196 | Petr Buzek | 564 |
| 197 | Bryan Marchment | 568 |
| 198 | Brad Lukowich | 570 |
| 199 | Jeff Finger | 571 |
| 200 | Hal Gill | 573 |
| 201 | Barret Jackman | 576 |
| 202 | Robyn Regehr | 578 |
| 203 | Marcus Ragnarsson | 582 |
| 204 | Christian Backman | 583 |
| 205 | Shane O'Brien | 589 |
| 206 | Jiri Fischer | 590 |
| 207 | Aaron Ward | 593 |
| 208 | Bryan Allen | 596 |
| 209 | Janne Laukkanen | 597 |
| 210 | Mattias Norstrom | 599 |
| 211 | Cale Hulse | 600 |
| 212 | Aaron Miller | 602 |
| 213 | Jay McKee | 604 |
| 214 | Vitaly Vishnevski | 607 |
| 215 | Josh Gorges | 609 |
| 216 | Jeff Schultz | 610 |
| 217 | Darius Kasparaitis | 611 |
| 218 | Jim Vandermeer | 612 |
| 219 | Kent Huskins | 613 |
| 220 | Rhett Warrener | 614 |
| 221 | Nick Schultz | 615 |
| 222 | Jeff Norton | 616 |
| 223 | Alexander Karpovtsev | 618 |
| 224 | Jon Klemm | 619 |
| 225 | Cory Sarich | 620 |
| 226 | Bill Houlder | 621 |
| 227 | Nathan Paetsch | 623 |
| 228 | Jeff Jillson | 625 |
| 229 | Aki Berg | 627 |
| 230 | Tommy Albelin | 628 |
| 231 | Willie Mitchell | 629 |
| 232 | Francis Bouillon | 631 |
| 233 | James Patrick | 632 |
| 234 | Chris Tamer | 635 |
| 235 | Tim Gleason | 637 |
| 236 | Bob Boughner | 638 |
| 237 | Colin White | 639 |
| 238 | Petteri Nummelin | 641 |
| 239 | Stephane Quintal | 644 |
| 240 | Henrik Tallinder | 645 |
| 241 | Ossi Vaananen | 649 |
| 242 | Alexandre Picard | 651 |
| 243 | Pavel Trnka | 653 |
| 244 | Andreas Lilja | 654 |
| 245 | Mike Komisarek | 655 |
| 246 | Jamie Rivers | 656 |
| 247 | Mike Mottau | 659 |
| 248 | Hans Jonsson | 665 |
| 249 | Don Sweeney | 667 |
| 250 | Mattias Timander | 668 |
| 251 | Steve McCarthy | 669 |
| 252 | Brad Werenka | 673 |
| 253 | Jan Hejda | 674 |
| 254 | Chris Therien | 676 |
| 255 | Karlis Skrastins | 680 |
| 256 | Kris Russell | 681 |
| 257 | Joel Kwiatkowski | 682 |
| 258 | Sean Brown | 685 |
| 259 | Brett Lebda | 687 |
| 260 | Ian Moran | 688 |
| 261 | Sylvain Lefebvre | 690 |
| 262 | Andrej Sekera | 691 |
| 263 | Bruno Gervais | 692 |
| 264 | Scott Lachance | 693 |
| 265 | Mark Eaton | 694 |
| 266 | Denis Gauthier | 696 |
| 267 | Brad Ference | 697 |
| 268 | Mark Stuart | 699 |
| 269 | Jeff Woywitka | 700 |
| 270 | Marc Methot | 703 |
| 271 | Jamie Pushor | 705 |
| 272 | Lukas Krajicek | 706 |
| 273 | Kevin Dean | 707 |
| 274 | Brad Bombardir | 708 |
| 275 | Bryce Salvador | 709 |
| 276 | Todd Simpson | 712 |
| 277 | Brooks Orpik | 713 |
| 278 | Dave Manson | 714 |
| 279 | Anton Volchenkov | 716 |
| 280 | Jassen Cullimore | 717 |
| 281 | Paul Laus | 718 |
| 282 | Murray Baron | 720 |
| 283 | Ivan Majesky | 721 |
| 284 | Todd Gill | 725 |
| 285 | Brendan Witt | 726 |
| 286 | Radek Martinek | 727 |
| 287 | Pascal Trepanier | 728 |
| 288 | Richard Smehlik | 729 |
| 289 | Dave Karpa | 732 |
| 290 | Jason Doig | 734 |
| 291 | Lasse Kukkonen | 735 |
| 292 | Rich Pilon | 736 |
| 293 | Steve Poapst | 737 |
| 294 | Stan Neckar | 740 |
| 295 | Joe Reekie | 742 |
| 296 | Jeff Finley | 743 |
| 297 | Dmitri Bykov | 745 |
| 298 | Marc Bergevin | 747 |
| 299 | Jason Marshall | 751 |
| 300 | Jack Johnson | 753 |
| 301 | Jarno Kultanen | 754 |
| 302 | Kevin Dallman | 755 |
| 303 | Lance Pitlick | 757 |
| 304 | Josef Melichar | 758 |
| 305 | Shane Hnidy | 762 |
| 306 | Kevin Haller | 763 |
| 307 | Eric Cairns | 764 |
| 308 | Marc Staal | 766 |
| 309 | Luke Richardson | 768 |
| 310 | Garnet Exelby | 769 |
| 311 | Milan Jurcina | 770 |
| 312 | Rob Scuderi | 776 |
| 313 | Curtis Leschyshyn | 777 |
| 314 | Kevin Klein | 781 |
| 315 | Peter Harrold | 784 |
| 316 | Niclas Wallin | 785 |
| 317 | Roman Polak | 787 |
| 318 | Shaone Morrisonn | 788 |
| 319 | Luke Schenn | 790 |
| 320 | Adam Burt | 792 |
| 321 | Ken Daneyko | 793 |
| 322 | Nolan Pratt | 794 |
| 323 | Matt Greene | 796 |
| 324 | Christian Laflamme | 797 |
| 325 | Scott Ferguson | 800 |
| 326 | Matt Walker | 801 |
| 327 | Douglas Murray | 802 |
| 328 | Greg Zanon | 808 |
| 329 | Todd Reirden | 811 |
| 330 | Ladislav Benysek | 812 |
| 331 | Andrew Alberts | 815 |
| 332 | Kurt Sauer | 819 |
| 333 | Nicklas Grossmann | 820 |
| 334 | Aaron Johnson | 821 |
| 335 | Jason Strudwick | 825 |
| 336 | Doug Janik | 828 |
| 337 | Lance Ward | 829 |
| 338 | Ladislav Smid | 833 |
| 339 | Rick Berry | 834 |
| 340 | Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre | 839 |
| 341 | David Hale | 858 |
| 342 | Joe DiPenta | 861 |
| 343 | Mike Lundin | 871 |
| 344 | Wade Belak | 876 |
| 345 | David Harlock | 883 |
| 346 | Ole-Kristian Tollefsen | 894 |
| 347 | Rob Davison | 910 |
| 348 | Alex Henry | 921 |
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