The Top 50 Prospect Defensemen to own in fantasy hockey, April edition. Nylander takes over…

Here are this month's top defense prospects to own in a points-only keeper league. Taking into account the organization depth chart, wait time, upside and NHL certainty. This month the graduated players from this list were: Noah Hanifin and Dmitry Orlov.

+/- 5.0 rating points please consider them similar in value

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Apr 10	Prospect	Team	type	Prospect Rating	Mar 10	Feb 10
1	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	d	73.1	1	1
2	Shea Theodore	ANA	d	64.2	3	3
3	Anthony DeAngelo	TBL	d	63.3	2	2
4	Colton Parayko	STL	d	61.7	4	6
5	Ivan Provorov	PHI	d	61.1	9	11
6	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	d	60.5	5	5
7	Darnell Nurse	EDM	d	59.4	6	8
8	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	59.4	7	7
9	Julius Honka	DAL	d	58.1	8	10
10	Nikita Zadorov	COL	d	57.5	10	12
11	Zach Werenski	CBJ	d	57.4	18	19
12	Connor Carrick	TOR	d	57.0	13	17
13	Colin Miller	BOS	d	56.8	11	9
14	Jake McCabe	BUF	d	56.4	12	13
15	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	54.9	15	15
16	Joshua Morrissey	WPG	d	54.7	14	14
17	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	54.3	25	27
18	Brandon Montour	ANA	d	54.2	16	16
19	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	53.4	17	18
20	Jacob Larsson	ANA	d	51.7	33	36
21	Mike Matheson	FLA	d	51.1	19	20
22	Jakub Zboril	BOS	d	51.1	26	28
23	Mike Reilly	MIN	d	51.0	21	23
24	Esa Lindell	DAL	d	51.0	28	31
25	Joe Morrow	BOS	d	50.5	23	25
26	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.3	24	26
27	Ville Pokka	CHI	d	50.0	50	50
28	Haydn Fleury	CAR	d	49.5	27	29
29	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	d	48.6	86	87
30	Jordan Subban	VAN	d	46.9	34	37
31	Chris Bigras	COL	d	46.8	35	38
32	Mark Pysyk	BUF	d	46.3	39	40
33	Ryan Murphy	CAR	d	46.3	40	41
34	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	45.9	30	33
35	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	d	45.9	20	22
36	Philip Larsen	VAN	d	45.9	43	181
37	Jake Walman	STL	d	45.6	128	129
38	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	45.6	42	43
39	Mirco Mueller	SJS	d	45.6	36	30
40	Samuel Morin	PHI	d	45.4	47	48
41	Brady Skjei	NYR	d	45.2	46	47
42	Griffin Reinhart	EDM	d	45.1	48	46
43	Chris Wideman	OTT	d	45.0	49	49
44	Roland McKeown	CAR	d	45.0	51	51
45	Xavier Ouellet	DET	d	44.8	37	39
46	Gustav Olofsson	MIN	d	44.4	81	82
47	Adam Clendening	EDM	d	44.3	38	56
48	Will Butcher	COL	d	44.3	55	55
49	Brett Pesce	CAR	d	44.2	31	34
50	Brandon Davidson	EDM	d	44.1	57	58

9 Comments

Mark Zwicker 2016-04-12 at 15:29Log in to Reply

Joe Hicketts ?
Shirogane Luna 2016-04-13 at 08:07Log in to Reply

Tryamkin? ^ ^
Wade Colborne 2016-04-14 at 12:06Log in to Reply

The profile for Anthony DeAngelo the #3 is over a year old now. When these profiles aren’t kept up to date (especially for the notables) we can’t rely on the info since it’s so stale.
- Dobber Sports 2016-04-14 at 12:16Log in to Reply
  
  Sorry Wade, we have over 1000 profiles in there now and honestly 600-700 of them have been updated in the last four months. I could have 500 writers covering DobberProspects and you’ll always be able to find a prospect or two without an update in a year. I’ll have the TB guy update this one, but don’t be frustrated with the site over one guy. The notables are the ones with the least need for updates – they’re already well known – so that’s where we disagree.
  - Wade Colborne 2016-04-14 at 13:23Log in to Reply
    
    Oh I use the site a lot. My default google search is “Prospect name” Dobber
    I didn’t mean for it to sound like the site isn’t valuable because obviously it is. For the guys that aren’t all that well known / ranked well it makes sense that the updates wouldn’t be so often, But I think the top guys should be kept up to date as much as possible.
    - Wade Colborne 2016-04-14 at 13:23Log in to Reply
      
      oh and the more frequent prospect ramblings is great too!
    - Dobber Sports 2016-04-14 at 14:21Log in to Reply
      
      Sorry I thought you happened to click one name and passed judgment based on the one unlucky click. I understand, thanks for the feedback. PS – I asked the TB correspondent to get on it!
Jordan Sanders 2016-04-28 at 12:22Log in to Reply

Vili Saarijarvii? Any chance he makes his way into this list soon? thanks
- Dobber Sports 2016-04-28 at 14:26Log in to Reply
  
  ranked 98th

UPCOMING GAMES

Mar 16 - 13:03	DET	vs	VGK
Mar 16 - 15:03	COL	vs	DAL
Mar 16 - 18:03	STL	vs	ANA
Mar 16 - 19:03	NYR	vs	EDM
Mar 16 - 19:03	NYI	vs	FLA
Mar 16 - 20:03	VAN	vs	UTA
Mar 16 - 21:03	SEA	vs	WPG