Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – July 2018
Dobber
2018-07-12
Here are the Top 50 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – July edition!
This month the new draftees are in! This year's crop was heavier in terms of high-upside defensemen so they really made waves today (as opposed to the list of forwards posted Wednesday). As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of personal preference or team needs. o=offense, os=offensive small, p=power forward t=two-way
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| July 10 | Prospect | Team | age | type | June 10 | May 10 |
| 1 | Rasmus Dahlin | BUF | d | 87.8 | NR | NR |
| 2 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 70.4 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Samuel Girard | COL | d | 70.1 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 70.0 | NR | NR |
| 5 | Thomas Chabot | OTT | d | 66.9 | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | Ryan Pulock | NYI | d | 66.8 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 66.5 | NR | NR |
| 8 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | d | 65.7 | 5 | 5 |
| 9 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 64.5 | 6 | 6 |
| 10 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 62.9 | 7 | 8 |
| 11 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 62.6 | NR | NR |
| 12 | Jakob Chychrun | ARI | d | 62.3 | 8 | 7 |
| 13 | Julius Honka | DAL | d | 60.7 | 9 | 9 |
| 14 | Erik Brannstrom | VGK | d | 60.7 | 10 | 13 |
| 15 | Henri Jokiharju | CHI | d | 60.7 | 11 | 14 |
| 16 | Anthony DeAngelo | NYR | d | 58.9 | 12 | 10 |
| 17 | Victor Mete | MON | d | 58.2 | 13 | 12 |
| 18 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | d | 57.9 | 14 | 11 |
| 19 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 57.2 | NR | NR |
| 20 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 57.0 | 16 | 26 |
| 21 | Travis Sanheim | PHI | d | 56.9 | 15 | 15 |
| 22 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 56.7 | 17 | 24 |
| 23 | Christian Djoos | WAS | d | 56.1 | 18 | 20 |
| 24 | Madison Bowey | WAS | d | 55.7 | 19 | 16 |
| 25 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 55.3 | 20 | 18 |
| 26 | Brendan Guhle | BUF | d | 55.1 | 21 | 19 |
| 27 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.9 | 22 | 21 |
| 28 | Adam Fox | CAR | d | 54.2 | 24 | 17 |
| 29 | Travis Dermott | TOR | d | 54.2 | 23 | 22 |
| 30 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | d | 53.5 | 25 | 23 |
| 31 | Gustav Forsling | CHI | d | 53.2 | 26 | 25 |
| 32 | Libor Hajek | NYR | d | 51.9 | 27 | 33 |
| 33 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 50.5 | 28 | 27 |
| 34 | Jake Walman | STL | d | 49.8 | 29 | 35 |
| 35 | Sebastian Aho | NYI | d | 49.0 | 30 | 40 |
| 36 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 48.8 | 32 | 31 |
| 37 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | ARI | d | 48.8 | 31 | 30 |
| 38 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 48.7 | NR | NR |
| 39 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 48.0 | 33 | 32 |
| 40 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 47.5 | 34 | 62 |
| 41 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 47.1 | NR | NR |
| 42 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 46.4 | 35 | 34 |
| 43 | Gabriel Carlsson | CBJ | d | 46.0 | 37 | 37 |
| 44 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 45.8 | 36 | 36 |
| 45 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 45.7 | 38 | 48 |
| 46 | K'Andre Miller | NYR | d | 45.6 | NR | NR |
| 47 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 45.3 | 39 | 39 |
| 48 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 45.3 | 40 | 60 |
| 49 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 45.2 | NR | NR |
| 50 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 45.1 | 42 | 28 |
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