The Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your keeper league – April edition.

Factors include position in the depth chart, upside, likelihood of making the NHL, wait time (how long he'll be hogging a spot on your reserve roster before finally helping your team), and team investment (draft spot, or assets given up in a trade, etc). Type: offense, offensive-small, power forward, two-way.

Top 200 prospect forwards were posted yesterday – here.

Click on any player name to be taken to their scouting/outlook profile with stats, etc.

Apr 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	Mar 10	Feb 10
1	Shea Theodore	ANA	d	64.9	1	1
2	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	62.7	2	8
3	Mikhail Sergachev	MON	d	61.6	5	5
4	Julius Honka	DAL	d	60.8	4	4
5	Anthony DeAngelo	ARI	d	59.1	6	7
6	Brandon Montour	ANA	d	58.7	8	16
7	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	58.3	7	6
8	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	d	57.8	19	30
9	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	d	57.4	11	12
10	Connor Carrick	TOR	d	56.7	9	9
11	Joshua Morrissey	WPG	d	56.6	12	14
12	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	56.1	13	13
13	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	55.6	14	17
14	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	54.7	16	18
15	Gustav Forsling	CHI	d	54.6	15	10
16	Jake Walman	STL	d	53.1	24	25
17	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	d	51.7	17	20
18	Jacob Larsson	ANA	d	51.6	22	24
19	Ryan Graves	NYR	d	50.4	18	15
20	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	d	50.2	26	29
21	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	49.8	23	31
22	Will Butcher	COL	d	49.5	37	43
23	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	47.6	27	40
24	Mike Reilly	MIN	d	46.6	25	28
25	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	d	46.5	21	21
26	Jakub Zboril	BOS	d	46.0	29	32
27	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	45.9	30	35
28	Jake Bean	CAR	d	45.7	31	37
29	Kyle Wood	ARI	d	45.4	47	51
30	Ryan Sproul	DET	d	45.3	32	39
31	Jordan Subban	VAN	d	45.2	33	23
32	Ville Pokka	CHI	d	44.6	34	27
33	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	44.6	35	41
34	Joe Morrow	BOS	d	44.6	28	33
35	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	44.5	36	38
36	Vince Dunn	STL	d	44.1	52	42
37	Chris Bigras	COL	d	44.0	38	44
38	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	43.9	39	62
39	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	43.9	40	194
40	Parker Wotherspoon	NYI	d	43.8	41	47
41	Luc Snuggerud	CHI	d	43.6	42	131
42	Samuel Morin	PHI	d	43.5	44	61
43	Brendan Guhle	BUF	d	43.4	45	49
44	Adam Pelech	NYI	d	43.3	46	50
45	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	d	43.2	48	36
46	Michal Kempny	CHI	d	43.1	43	48
47	Samuel Girard	NSH	d	43.0	49	55
48	Andrew Nielsen	TOR	d	43.0	56	56
49	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	d	42.9	50	97
50	Devon Toews	NYI	d	42.6	51	58