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

 

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