Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your fantasy hockey keeper league (points only). March edition!

Takes into account several aspects – each one is very important and how you prioritize them for your fantasy squad depends on your current needs (long-term, high upside or short-term, NHL-ready, lower ceiling). As always, two players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point comes down to team needs or personal preference. Below the chart are the prospects I have graduated over the past two months. Wednesday I posted the Top 200 fantasy prospect forwards (here).

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Feb 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	Feb 10	Jan 10
1	Samuel Girard	COL	d	67.3	2	2
2	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	d	65.2	5	5
3	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	63.0	4	4
4	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	62.5	6	6
5	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	61.6	7	9
6	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	61.2	23	32
7	Cale Makar	COL	d	60.5	9	12
8	Julius Honka	DAL	d	59.8	8	8
9	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	d	59.2	10	11
10	Anthony DeAngelo	NYR	d	58.7	12	7
11	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	d	57.3	11	10
12	Victor Mete	MON	d	57.1	14	14
13	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	56.6	13	13
14	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	55.5	15	15
15	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	55.0	16	16
16	Christian Djoos	WAS	d	54.6	30	30
17	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	53.5	32	34
18	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	d	53.4	20	21
19	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	53.1	18	18
20	Gustav Forsling	CHI	d	53.0	17	17
21	Adam Fox	CGY	d	52.4	34	47
22	Kale Clague	LAK	d	51.9	47	50
23	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	d	51.7	21	22
24	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	d	51.1	27	27
25	Brendan Guhle	BUF	d	50.9	24	25
26	Conor Timmins	COL	d	50.8	37	41
27	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.2	26	26
28	Jake Bean	CAR	d	48.8	29	29
29	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	48.8	28	28
30	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	ARI	d	48.8	41	43
31	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	48.5	31	31
32	Libor Hajek	NYR	d	47.9	72	71
33	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	47.3	33	35
34	Cal Foote	TBL	d	46.4	43	58
35	Jake Walman	STL	d	46.0	22	23
36	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	45.8	39	38
37	Gabriel Carlsson	CBJ	d	45.8	36	36
38	Filip Hronek	DET	d	45.6	79	78
39	Nicolas Hague	VGK	d	45.3	50	46
40	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	45.3	52	51
41	Sebastian Aho	NYI	d	44.9	55	56
42	Vili Saarijarvi	DET	d	44.7	44	42
43	Chad Krys	CHI	d	44.5	40	39
44	Jacob Larsson	ANA	d	44.5	42	33
45	Ian Mitchell	CHI	d	44.5	45	102
46	Sean Day	NYR	d	44.2	49	45
47	Devon Toews	NYI	d	44.1	59	60
48	Lucas Johansen	WAS	d	43.9	84	84
49	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	43.3	46	49
50	Paul Ladue	LAK	d	43.3	54	55

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Prospects, including forwards (this list went up Wednesday), graduated over the last two months:

Beauvillier	Anthony	NYI
Bjorkstrand	Oliver	CBJ
Bratt	Jesper	NJD
Butcher	Will	NJD
Connor	Kyle	WPG
Di Giuseppe	Phillip	CAR
Dubois	Pierre-Luc	CBJ
Dunn	Vince	STL
Fleury	Haydn	CAR
Gourde	Yanni	TBL
Griffith	Seth	BUF
Heed	Tim	SJS
Heinen	Danton	BOS
Hudon	Charles	MON
Kempe	Adrian	LAK
Kempny	Michal	WAS
Kerfoot	Alexander	COL
Khaira	Jujhar	EDM
Koekkoek	Slater	TBL
Kulak	Brett	CGY
Kuraly	Sean	BOS
Labanc	Kevin	SJS
Leivo	Josh	TOR
Meier	Timo	SJS
Patrick	Nolan	PHI
Perlini	Brendan	ARI
Pouliot	Derrick	VAN
Rutta	Jan	CHI
Smith	Gemel	DAL
Stephenson	Chandler	WAS
Theodore	Shea	VGK
Tuch	Alex	VGK
Virtanen	Jake	VAN
Vrana	Jakub	WAS
Weal	Jordan	PHI
Weegar	Mackenzie	FLA
Wood	Miles	NJD

2 Comments

Hunter9 2018-03-26 at 08:46Log in to Reply

S. Aho’s profile redirects to the Hurricane forward, not the NYI D.
NeonNerd 2018-04-01 at 11:10Log in to Reply

In a points only dynasty league, 20 teams, 12 keepers: Would Ryan Pulock be a keeper over, Josh Morrissey?

UPCOMING GAMES

Mar 20 - 19:03	CBJ	vs	FLA
Mar 20 - 19:03	OTT	vs	COL
Mar 20 - 19:03	WSH	vs	PHI
Mar 20 - 19:03	NYR	vs	TOR
Mar 20 - 19:03	N.J	vs	CGY
Mar 20 - 19:03	NYI	vs	MTL
Mar 20 - 19:03	STL	vs	VAN
Mar 20 - 20:03	NSH	vs	ANA
Mar 20 - 20:03	DAL	vs	T.B
Mar 20 - 20:03	CHI	vs	L.A
Mar 20 - 21:03	UTA	vs	BUF
Mar 20 - 21:03	EDM	vs	WPG
Mar 20 - 22:03	VGK	vs	BOS
Mar 20 - 22:03	S.J	vs	CAR

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

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	BRANDON CARLO	TOR
	LANE HUTSON	MTL
	LEO CARLSSON	ANA
	ARTYOM LEVSHUNOV	CHI
	RYAN HARTMAN	MIN

Top Goalie Profile Views

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	JAKE OETTINGER	DAL
	PHILIPP GRUBAUER	SEA
	JOSEPH WOLL	TOR
	MACKENZIE BLACKWOOD	COL
	FILIP GUSTAVSSON	MIN

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	Frequency	NYI Players
	21.0	HUDSON FASCHING PIERRE ENGVALL CASEY CIZIKAS
	20.3	KYLE PALMIERI BO HORVAT SIMON HOLMSTROM
	18.0	JEAN-GABRIEL PAGEAU ANDERS LEE ANTHONY DUCLAIR

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