Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own your fantasy hockey keeper league – May 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.

This month, because I am in the midst of putting together the 12th annual Fantasy Prospects Report (out June 1st – order it here!), half of the players have been vetted and adjusted…whereas the other half still need review. So this month is kind of a mishmash of this. In June, after the FPR is out, these rankings will be full vetted and all players adjusted. I wish I could give you some direction as to which ones have been tweaked – but literally half the prospects for each team have been done, and there was no pattern as to which ones. Best direction I can give is that the prospects who have moved up and down a lot have definitely been evaluated. That's not to say that the stagnant prospects haven't been evaluated – those ones I just feel I had right all along. But some of the stagnant ones have not been reviewed yet.

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May 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	Apr 10	Mar 10
1	Cale Makar	COL	d	69.9	8	7
2	Samuel Girard	COL	d	68.4	1	1
3	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	65.8	2	4
4	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	65.8	3	5
5	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	d	65.2	4	2
6	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	64.0	5	3
7	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	d	61.6	6	9
8	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	61.2	7	6
9	Julius Honka	DAL	d	59.8	9	8
10	Anthony DeAngelo	NYR	d	58.7	10	10
11	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	d	57.6	21	23
12	Victor Mete	MON	d	57.4	11	12
13	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	d	57.3	12	11
14	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	d	57.2	25	24
15	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	56.6	13	13
16	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	55.5	14	14
17	Adam Fox	CGY	d	55.4	22	21
18	Kale Clague	LAK	d	54.9	23	22
19	Brendan Guhle	BUF	d	54.8	24	25
20	Christian Djoos	WAS	d	54.6	16	16
21	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	54.4	15	15
22	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	53.8	17	17
23	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	d	53.4	18	18
24	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	53.1	19	19
25	Gustav Forsling	CHI	d	53.0	20	20
26	Conor Timmins	COL	d	50.8	26	26
27	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.2	27	27
28	Jake Bean	CAR	d	48.8	28	28
29	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	48.8	29	29
30	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	ARI	d	48.8	30	30
31	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	48.5	31	31
32	Filip Hronek	DET	d	48.0	38	38
33	Libor Hajek	NYR	d	47.9	32	32
34	Cal Foote	TBL	d	46.4	34	34
35	Jake Walman	STL	d	46.0	35	35
36	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	45.8	36	36
37	Gabriel Carlsson	CBJ	d	45.8	37	37
38	Nicolas Hague	VGK	d	45.3	39	39
39	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	45.3	40	40
40	Sebastian Aho	NYI	d	44.9	41	41
41	Chad Krys	CHI	d	44.5	43	43
42	Ian Mitchell	CHI	d	44.5	45	45
43	Josh Mahura	ANA	d	44.3	64	64
44	Sean Day	NYR	d	44.2	46	46
45	Devon Toews	NYI	d	44.1	47	47
46	Lucas Johansen	WAS	d	43.9	48	48
47	Jacob Moverare	LAK	d	43.5	142	143
48	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	43.3	49	49
49	Joe Hicketts	DET	d	43.0	50	51
50	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	42.8	33	33

UPCOMING GAMES

Jan 22 - 19:01	N.J	vs	BOS
Jan 22 - 19:01	TOR	vs	CBJ
Jan 22 - 21:01	COL	vs	WPG
Jan 22 - 22:01	L.A	vs	FLA

Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	DARREN RADDYSH	T.B
	LANE HUTSON	MTL
	MIKE LUNDIN
	KAAPO KAKKO	SEA
	PAVEL DOROFEYEV	VGK

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKE OETTINGER	DAL
	LOGAN THOMPSON	WSH
	LEEVI MERILAINEN	OTT
	IGOR SHESTERKIN	NYR
	SAM MONTEMBEAULT	MTL

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	T.B Players
	24.6	NIKITA KUCHEROV BRANDON HAGEL ANTHONY CIRELLI
	20.0	NICK PAUL ZEMGUS GIRGENSONS CONOR GEEKIE
	17.0	BRAYDEN POINT JAKE GUENTZEL MICHAEL EYSSIMONT

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