There is a new prospect atop this month's Top 50 Fantasy Hockey Prospect Defensemen list – and no, you haven't seen a 'ghost'. He's really there!

Also new this month is the fact that I'm expanding and separating the two lists. Rather than give you the Top 180 forwards and Top 35 defensemen I thought I'd give each of them their own focus. So here for the first time, I present to you the Top 200 forwards. Tomorrow I will post the Top 50 defensemen. That's right, you now have 250 names to look over instead of 215. More isn't always better…but it sure as hell is in this case!

These are the top prospect defensemen to own in fantasy hockey, combining a mix of NHL certainty with upside and wait time (waiting on a prospect for five years, for example, will seriously penalize their value). Note: clicking on a name will take you to our profile of that prospect, complete with observations, stats, outlook and more.

Get the Top 200 Fantasy Hockey Prospect Forwards here

Feb 10	Prospect	Team	type	Prospect Rating	Jan 10	Dec 10
1	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	d	71.8	2	5
2	Anthony DeAngelo	TBL	d	64.4	1	1
3	Shea Theodore	ANA	d	62.4	12	12
4	Noah Hanifin	CAR	d	61.7	3	3
5	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	d	60.5	5	4
6	Colton Parayko	STL	d	60.1	4	2
7	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	59.9	6	6
8	Darnell Nurse	EDM	d	59.4	7	8
9	Colin Miller	BOS	d	58.3	8	9
10	Julius Honka	DAL	d	58.1	9	10
11	Ivan Provorov	PHI	d	57.6	10	19
12	Nikita Zadorov	COL	d	57.5	11	11
13	Jake McCabe	BUF	d	56.4	14	15
14	Joshua Morrissey	WPG	d	55.0	13	13
15	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	54.9	15	16
16	Brandon Montour	ANA	d	54.2	19	34
17	Connor Carrick	WAS	d	54.1	16	17
18	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	53.4	17	18
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	d	53.3	18	25
20	Mike Matheson	FLA	d	52.3	20	20
21	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	d	51.4	47	52
22	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	d	51.4	21	21
23	Mike Reilly	MIN	d	51.1	22	24
24	Brian Dumoulin	PIT	d	50.9	25	27
25	Joe Morrow	BOS	d	50.5	23	23
26	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.3	27	29
27	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	50.1	28	30
28	Jakub Zboril	BOS	d	49.7	29	31
29	Haydn Fleury	CAR	d	49.5	30	28
30	Mirco Mueller	SJS	d	48.2	31	33
31	Esa Lindell	DAL	d	47.9	58	62
32	Ben Hutton	VAN	d	47.8	26	26
33	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	47.0	33	35
34	Brett Pesce	CAR	d	46.9	34	107
35	Ryan Sproul	DET	d	46.9	35	36
36	Jacob Larsson	ANA	d	46.9	36	37
37	Jordan Subban	VAN	d	46.9	37	38
38	Chris Bigras	COL	d	46.8	39	40
39	Xavier Ouellet	DET	d	46.5	40	41
40	Mark Pysyk	BUF	d	46.3	42	42
41	Ryan Murphy	CAR	d	46.3	32	32
42	Robert Hagg	PHI	d	46.2	43	44
43	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	45.9	44	46
44	Christian Folin	MIN	d	45.8	45	45
45	Nikita Nesterov	TBL	d	45.7	46	22
46	Griffin Reinhart	EDM	d	45.7	24	14
47	Brady Skjei	NYR	d	45.7	38	39
48	Samuel Morin	PHI	d	45.4	41	43
49	Chris Wideman	OTT	d	45.0	48	54
50	Ville Pokka	CHI	d	45.0	50	56

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Here are the prospects (both forwards and defensemen) who have graduated over the last two months:

Vladislav Namestnikov

Alexander Wennberg

Michael Latta

Damon Severson

Martin Marincin

Nate Schmidt

Jyrki Jokipakka

Trevor van Riemsdyk

Klas Dahlbeck

Ben Chiarot

Matt Tennyson

Cody Goloubef

Zach Trotman

Leon Draisaitl

Andre Burakovsky

Teuvo Teravainen

Chris Tierney

Sven Bärtschi

Johan Larsson

Joakim Nordstrom

Andy Andreoff

Alex Petrovic

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 23 - 13:12	N.J	vs	NYR
Dec 23 - 14:12	TOR	vs	WPG
Dec 23 - 19:12	DET	vs	STL
Dec 23 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	MTL
Dec 23 - 19:12	BOS	vs	WSH
Dec 23 - 19:12	FLA	vs	T.B
Dec 23 - 19:12	PIT	vs	PHI
Dec 23 - 19:12	NYI	vs	BUF
Dec 23 - 20:12	NSH	vs	CAR
Dec 23 - 20:12	MIN	vs	CHI
Dec 23 - 21:12	UTA	vs	DAL
Dec 23 - 21:12	VAN	vs	S.J
Dec 23 - 22:12	VGK	vs	ANA

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	JACKSON LACOMBE	ANA
	LANE HUTSON	MTL
	PATRIK LAINE	MTL
	SHANE PINTO	OTT
	JONATHAN HUBERDEAU	CGY

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	MACKENZIE BLACKWOOD	COL
	SPENCER KNIGHT	FLA
	DAVID RITTICH	L.A
	LUKAS DOSTAL	ANA
	JACOB MARKSTROM	N.J

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	N.J Players
	24.3	STEFAN NOESEN TIMO MEIER NICO HISCHIER
	17.5	ONDREJ PALAT JACK HUGHES JESPER BRATT
	11.7	DAWSON MERCER ERIK HAULA PAUL COTTER

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