No. 4 - HFBoards Top 32 Defenseman in the NHL - 2026 Offseason Edition

[Lavar Ball]

Offseason is here fellas - time for some polls to rank the best players in the league! Please drop suggestions on who should be added in the future or any other notes.

Rank​	Player​	Team​	% of Vote​
1​	Cale Makar​	Avalanche​	28/34 (82.4%)​
2​	Quinn Hughes​	Wild​	35/47 (74.5%)​
3​	Zach Werenski​	Blue Jackets​	61/101 (60.4%)​
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To Be Added:
Josh Morrissey
Shea Theodore
Brock Faber
Jackson LaCombe
Roman Josi
Victor Hedman
Mikhail Sergachev
Gustav Forsling
Jakob Chychrun
Erik Karlsson
John Carlson
Noah Dobson
Darren Raddysh
K'Andre Miller

 

[Bouboumaster]

Heiskanen

 

[Vegaspunk]

Dahlin, Hutson, Heiskanen are the next 3

 

[Bouboumaster]

Dahlin, Hutson, Heiskanen are the next 3

Those are mine too

I'm going with Heiskanen, Dahlin and Hutson, in that order

 

[wetcoast]

Dahlin, Seider, Schafer, Bouchard and Miro in there somewhere.

 

[JoelWarlord]

Where's Raddysh

 

[wetcoast]

Where's Raddysh

In Toronto apparently.

 

[newfy]

Probably should be Dahlin, Seider and Heiskanen the next 3 in that order

 

[Beerz]

Seeing some of the names on 5he "To be added" list and not seeing Mattias Samuelsson is a crime against humanity.

 

[ITM]

Schaefer seems as big a debut as we’ve had in a while.

 

[Boreal01]

Seeing some of the names on 5he "To be added" list and not seeing Mattias Samuelsson is a crime against humanity.

Which names on that list do you believe he’s better than

 

[Beerz]

Which names on that list do you believe he’s better than

Miller, Dobson, Hedman.

Couple others I would argue as well but admittedly don't see enough to feel confident enough to mention.