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The Top Ranked Defensemen of the 2010s
Notes: Ranking Explanation
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Erik Karlsson | 2 |
| 2 | Brent Burns | 5 |
| 3 | Victor Hedman | 9 |
| 4 | P.K. Subban | 10 |
| 5 | Duncan Keith | 17 |
| 6 | Dustin Byfuglien | 18 |
| 7 | Mark Giordano | 23 |
| 8 | Shea Weber | 24 |
| 9 | Drew Doughty | 31 |
| 10 | Roman Josi | 34 |
| 11 | Keith Yandle | 35 |
| 12 | Kris Letang | 44 |
| 13 | Alex Pietrangelo | 47 |
| 14 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 49 |
| 15 | Tyson Barrie | 53 |
| 16 | John Carlson | 57 |
| 17 | John Klingberg | 59 |
| 18 | Kevin Shattenkirk | 65 |
| 19 | Nicklas Lidstrom | 66 |
| 20 | Zdeno Chara | 69 |
| 21 | Dan Boyle | 71 |
| 22 | Mark Streit | 72 |
| 23 | Torey Krug | 78 |
| 24 | Andrei Markov | 81 |
| 25 | Ryan Suter | 83 |
| 26 | Dougie Hamilton | 84 |
| 27 | Mike Green | 85 |
| 28 | Dennis Wideman | 87 |
| 29 | Niklas Kronwall | 90 |
| 30 | Brent Seabrook | 94 |
| 31 | Justin Faulk | 99 |
| 32 | Shayne Gostisbehere | 101 |
| 33 | Brian Campbell | 111 |
| 34 | Alex Goligoski | 113 |
| 35 | Christian Ehrhoff | 115 |
| 36 | Justin Schultz | 120 |
| 37 | Ryan McDonagh | 123 |
| 38 | Morgan Rielly | 126 |
| 39 | Alexander Edler | 128 |
| 40 | Dion Phaneuf | 132 |
| 41 | Nick Leddy | 133 |
| 42 | Seth Jones | 135 |
| 43 | Toby Enstrom | 138 |
| 44 | Kimmo Timonen | 140 |
| 45 | James Wisniewski | 143 |
| 46 | Sergei Gonchar | 146 |
| 47 | Lubomir Visnovsky | 151 |
| 48 | Zach Werenski | 155 |
| 49 | Chris Pronger | 160 |
| 50 | Tyler Myers | 161 |
| 51 | Erik Gustafsson | 163 |
| 52 | Matt Niskanen | 164 |
| 53 | Ryan Ellis | 165 |
| 54 | Andrej Sekera | 172 |
| 55 | Scott Niedermayer | 174 |
| 56 | Trevor Daley | 201 |
| 57 | Thomas Chabot | 205 |
| 58 | Tomas Kaberle | 209 |
| 59 | Marek Zidlicky | 213 |
| 60 | Mathew Dumba | 215 |
| 61 | Cody Franson | 219 |
| 62 | Aaron Ekblad | 223 |
| 63 | Brian Rafalski | 224 |
| 64 | T.J. Brodie | 227 |
| 65 | Jake Gardiner | 233 |
| 66 | John-Michael Liles | 235 |
| 67 | Slava Voynov | 238 |
| 68 | Rasmus Ristolainen | 240 |
| 69 | Kevin Bieksa | 241 |
| 70 | Joni Pitkanen | 244 |
| 71 | Jake Muzzin | 252 |
| 72 | Michael Del Zotto | 253 |
| 73 | Joe Corvo | 254 |
| 74 | Ivan Provorov | 255 |
| 75 | Cam Fowler | 257 |
| 76 | Francois Beauchemin | 266 |
| 77 | Oscar Klefbom | 267 |
| 78 | Jay Bouwmeester | 268 |
| 79 | Jack Johnson | 271 |
| 80 | Jared Spurgeon | 277 |
| 81 | Jason Garrison | 278 |
| 82 | Erik Johnson | 280 |
| 83 | Jeff Petry | 281 |
| 84 | Sami Vatanen | 282 |
| 85 | Stephane Robidas | 283 |
| 86 | Marc-Edouard Vlasic | 284 |
| 87 | Bryan McCabe | 286 |
| 88 | Anton Stralman | 290 |
| 89 | Jacob Trouba | 292 |
| 90 | Ian White | 293 |
| 91 | Alec Martinez | 297 |
| 92 | Jordan Leopold | 298 |
| 93 | Kurtis Foster | 300 |
| 94 | Dan Hamhuis | 301 |
| 95 | David Savard | 319 |
| 96 | Nick Holden | 322 |
| 97 | Anton Babchuk | 327 |
| 98 | Colin Miller | 329 |
| 99 | Brady Skjei | 331 |
| 100 | Matt Carle | 332 |
| 101 | Ryan Whitney | 333 |
| 102 | Johnny Boychuk | 340 |
| 103 | Rasmus Dahlin | 345 |
| 104 | Mattias Ekholm | 347 |
| 105 | Mikhail Sergachev | 349 |
| 106 | Fedor Tyutin | 351 |
| 107 | Will Butcher | 354 |
| 108 | Ed Jovanovski | 356 |
| 109 | Colton Parayko | 358 |
| 110 | Patrick Wiercioch | 361 |
| 111 | Sheldon Souray | 364 |
| 112 | Pavel Kubina | 365 |
| 113 | Darnell Nurse | 366 |
| 114 | Hampus Lindholm | 373 |
| 115 | Michael Stone | 376 |
| 116 | Shea Theodore | 377 |
| 117 | Andy Greene | 380 |
| 118 | Vince Dunn | 391 |
| 119 | Nikita Zaitsev | 392 |
| 120 | Andrej Meszaros | 395 |
| 121 | Jason Demers | 398 |
| 122 | Ryan Pulock | 399 |
| 123 | Brett Clark | 400 |
| 124 | Roman Hamrlik | 402 |
| 125 | Dennis Seidenberg | 403 |
| 126 | Olli Maatta | 405 |
| 127 | Nikita Nikitin | 406 |
| 128 | Dmitry Orlov | 407 |
| 129 | Josh Manson | 410 |
| 130 | Jaccob Slavin | 413 |
| 131 | Travis Hamonic | 414 |
| 132 | Miro Heiskanen | 415 |
| 133 | Carlo Colaiacovo | 417 |
| 134 | Kris Russell | 419 |
| 135 | Filip Kuba | 422 |
| 136 | Travis Sanheim | 424 |
| 137 | Esa Lindell | 429 |
| 138 | Sami Salo | 430 |
| 139 | Brandon Montour | 435 |
| 140 | Jamie McBain | 436 |
| 141 | Cody Ceci | 437 |
| 142 | Rob Blake | 439 |
| 143 | Noah Hanifin | 441 |
| 144 | Andre Benoit | 449 |
| 145 | Kevin Klein | 452 |
| 146 | Zach Bogosian | 453 |
| 147 | Marc Staal | 454 |
| 148 | Nate Schmidt | 456 |
| 149 | Dan Girardi | 460 |
| 150 | John Moore | 466 |
| 151 | Grant Clitsome | 467 |
| 152 | Damon Severson | 470 |
| 153 | Adrian Aucoin | 472 |
| 154 | Marco Scandella | 473 |
| 155 | Keith Ballard | 474 |
| 156 | Tom Gilbert | 475 |
| 157 | Charlie McAvoy | 477 |
| 158 | Kyle Quincey | 483 |
| 159 | Andrew MacDonald | 484 |
| 160 | Justin Braun | 487 |
| 161 | Danny DeKeyser | 488 |
| 162 | Chris Phillips | 489 |
| 163 | Matt Irwin | 495 |
| 164 | Yannick Weber | 496 |
| 165 | Dmitry Kulikov | 497 |
| 166 | Mike Matheson | 499 |
| 167 | Brett Pesce | 500 |
| 168 | Nathan Beaulieu | 508 |
| 169 | Derek Morris | 509 |
| 170 | Jay Harrison | 512 |
| 171 | Jakub Kindl | 514 |
| 172 | Niklas Hjalmarsson | 516 |
| 173 | Steve Montador | 517 |
| 174 | Anthony DeAngelo | 518 |
| 175 | Kevin Connauton | 519 |
| 176 | Ron Hainsey | 530 |
| 177 | Andrew Ference | 535 |
| 178 | Ryan Murray | 536 |
| 179 | Ian Cole | 537 |
| 180 | Marc Methot | 538 |
| 181 | Carl Gunnarsson | 540 |
| 182 | Josh Morrissey | 543 |
| 183 | Jonathan Ericsson | 544 |
| 184 | Paul Martin | 547 |
| 185 | Adam Larsson | 548 |
| 186 | Calvin de Haan | 557 |
| 187 | Radko Gudas | 561 |
| 188 | Toni Lydman | 565 |
| 189 | Jonas Brodin | 568 |
| 190 | Luca Sbisa | 572 |
| 191 | Eric Brewer | 574 |
| 192 | Neal Pionk | 575 |
| 193 | Karl Alzner | 576 |
| 194 | Michal Rozsival | 577 |
| 195 | Tom Poti | 580 |
| 196 | Alexei Emelin | 581 |
| 197 | Willie Mitchell | 582 |
| 198 | Barret Jackman | 583 |
| 199 | Michal Kempny | 584 |
| 200 | Simon Despres | 586 |
| 201 | Brayden McNabb | 587 |
| 202 | Braydon Coburn | 589 |
| 203 | Thomas Hickey | 592 |
| 204 | Johnny Oduya | 593 |
| 205 | Ben Hutton | 594 |
| 206 | Jakob Chychrun | 595 |
| 207 | Kyle Cumiskey | 596 |
| 208 | Markus Nutivaara | 597 |
| 209 | Luke Schenn | 598 |
| 210 | Samuel Girard | 601 |
| 211 | Troy Stecher | 602 |
| 212 | Brooks Orpik | 605 |
| 213 | Brad Stuart | 607 |
| 214 | Jack Hillen | 608 |
| 215 | Eric Gelinas | 610 |
| 216 | Cam Barker | 612 |
| 217 | Andrej Sustr | 616 |
| 218 | Jeff Schultz | 618 |
| 219 | Brendan Smith | 622 |
| 220 | David Schlemko | 625 |
| 221 | Corey Potter | 627 |
| 222 | Chris Tanev | 628 |
| 223 | Jan Hejda | 630 |
| 224 | Roman Polak | 633 |
| 225 | Chris Campoli | 634 |
| 226 | Matt Bartkowski | 635 |
| 227 | Deryk Engelland | 637 |
| 228 | Marcus Pettersson | 638 |
| 229 | Kevan Miller | 639 |
| 230 | Kent Huskins | 642 |
| 231 | Tim Gleason | 643 |
| 232 | Ryan Wilson | 646 |
| 233 | Ben Lovejoy | 648 |
| 234 | Jordie Benn | 649 |
| 235 | Zbynek Michalek | 650 |
| 236 | Brian Dumoulin | 652 |
| 237 | Connor Murphy | 653 |
| 238 | Brenden Dillon | 657 |
| 239 | Matt Benning | 658 |
| 240 | Adam Pelech | 659 |
| 241 | Rob Scuderi | 662 |
| 242 | Michael Matheson | 664 |
| 243 | Travis Hamonic | 665 |
| 244 | Jaroslav Spacek | 666 |
| 245 | Nikita Zadorov | 667 |
| 246 | Dylan DeMelo | 668 |
| 247 | Jordan Oesterle | 670 |
| 248 | Henrik Tallinder | 672 |
| 249 | Jake McCabe | 673 |
| 250 | Matt Gilroy | 675 |
| 251 | Shane O'Brien | 678 |
| 252 | Ben Chiarot | 679 |
| 253 | Jared Cowen | 680 |
| 254 | Brandon Manning | 681 |
| 255 | Robert Hagg | 682 |
| 256 | Bryan Allen | 688 |
| 257 | Chris Wideman | 689 |
| 258 | Nicklas Grossmann | 690 |
| 259 | Cory Sarich | 691 |
| 260 | Scott Mayfield | 693 |
| 261 | Brandon Carlo | 694 |
| 262 | Derrick Pouliot | 701 |
| 263 | Mark Fayne | 705 |
| 264 | Mark Pysyk | 706 |
| 265 | Douglas Murray | 709 |
| 266 | Sami Lepisto | 710 |
| 267 | Nick Schultz | 711 |
| 268 | Josh Gorges | 712 |
| 269 | Joel Edmundson | 713 |
| 270 | Nick Jensen | 714 |
| 271 | Rostislav Klesla | 715 |
| 272 | Matt Hunwick | 721 |
| 273 | Brian Pothier | 722 |
| 274 | Ladislav Smid | 725 |
| 275 | Steve Eminger | 726 |
| 276 | Erik Gudbranson | 728 |
| 277 | Bruno Gervais | 729 |
| 278 | Radek Martinek | 730 |
| 279 | Stephen Johns | 731 |
| 280 | Alex Petrovic | 733 |
| 281 | Rasmus Andersson | 734 |
| 282 | Robyn Regehr | 740 |
| 283 | Matt Grzelcyk | 741 |
| 284 | Jamie Oleksiak | 742 |
| 285 | Nate Guenin | 743 |
| 286 | Matt Greene | 745 |
| 287 | Francis Bouillon | 746 |
| 288 | Mike Mottau | 747 |
| 289 | Travis Dermott | 748 |
| 290 | Derek Forbort | 750 |
| 291 | Sean O'Donnell | 751 |
| 292 | Freddy Meyer | 752 |
| 293 | Clayton Stoner | 753 |
| 294 | Adam McQuaid | 754 |
| 295 | Chris Butler | 756 |
| 296 | Raphael Diaz | 760 |
| 297 | Michael Sauer | 762 |
| 298 | Ryan Stanton | 763 |
| 299 | Keith Aulie | 765 |
| 300 | Mark Eaton | 766 |
| 301 | Jonathon Merrill | 767 |
| 302 | Scott Harrington | 768 |
| 303 | Sheldon Brookbank | 769 |
| 304 | Mark Stuart | 770 |
| 305 | Anton Volchenkov | 771 |
| 306 | Andy Sutton | 773 |
| 307 | Bobby Sanguinetti | 775 |
| 308 | MacKenzie Weegar | 776 |
| 309 | Jim Vandermeer | 778 |
| 310 | Ryan O'Byrne | 779 |
| 311 | Mike Weber | 780 |
| 312 | Bryce Salvador | 781 |
| 313 | Scott Hannan | 783 |
| 314 | Mark Fraser | 784 |
| 315 | Trevor van Riemsdyk | 785 |
| 316 | Theo Peckham | 787 |
| 317 | Mike Weaver | 791 |
| 318 | Greg Zanon | 792 |
| 319 | Patrik Nemeth | 795 |
| 320 | John Erskine | 797 |
| 321 | Shane Hnidy | 798 |
| 322 | Wade Redden | 800 |
| 323 | Craig Rivet | 801 |
| 324 | Milan Jurcina | 803 |
| 325 | Christian Djoos | 808 |
| 326 | Randy Jones | 809 |
| 327 | Hal Gill | 811 |
| 328 | Andrew Alberts | 814 |
| 329 | Robert Bortuzzo | 817 |
| 330 | Mark Borowiecki | 818 |
| 331 | Christian Folin | 819 |
| 332 | Eric Gryba | 820 |
| 333 | Paul Postma | 822 |
| 334 | Karlis Skrastins | 825 |
| 335 | Xavier Ouellet | 828 |
| 336 | Jeff Woywitka | 829 |
| 337 | Mike Lundin | 833 |
| 338 | Aaron Ward | 834 |
| 339 | Alexey Marchenko | 835 |
| 340 | Colin White | 837 |
| 341 | Joakim Ryan | 840 |
| 342 | Alexander Petrovic | 841 |
| 343 | Mattias Ohlund | 844 |
| 344 | Ruslan Salei | 845 |
| 345 | Victor Mete | 846 |
| 346 | Shaone Morrisonn | 849 |
| 347 | Dalton Prout | 853 |
| 348 | Tyson Strachan | 854 |
| 349 | Matt Carkner | 856 |
| 350 | Brett Bellemore | 857 |
| 351 | Greg Pateryn | 859 |
| 352 | Nate Prosser | 867 |
| 353 | Jay McKee | 869 |
| 354 | Mark Fistric | 872 |
| 355 | Niclas Wallin | 873 |
| 356 | Justin Falk | 874 |
| 357 | Mike Komisarek | 876 |
| 358 | Nikita Tryamkin | 877 |
| 359 | Keaton Ellerby | 878 |
| 360 | Christian Jaros | 885 |
| 361 | Connor Carrick | 886 |
| 362 | Klas Dahlbeck | 889 |
| 363 | Brian Lashoff | 895 |
| 364 | Steve Staios | 896 |
| 365 | Brett Lebda | 898 |
| 366 | Adam Foote | 901 |
| 367 | Brent Sopel | 904 |
| 368 | Martin Marincin | 913 |
| 369 | Nick Seeler | 914 |
| 370 | Brett Kulak | 919 |
| 371 | Matt Walker | 921 |
| 372 | Oscar Fantenberg | 935 |
| 373 | Jason Strudwick | 936 |
| 374 | Fredrik Claesson | 940 |
| 375 | Haydn Fleury | 944 |
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