Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – August 2018
Dobber
2018-08-12
Here are the Top 50 defensemen to own in your fantasy hockey points-only keeper league – August edition.
This month's changes are based on the values that changed on the regular rankings template – one of the variables involved in the final rating below is the keeper value on the main list. It shuffled players up and down as you see below.
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.
The Top 300 Keeper Skaters list was posted Wednesday (here). The Top G list was posted Tuesday (here). The Top 100 Keeper Defensemen was Thursday (here). Prospect Forwards list was posted yesterday (here)…
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| Aug 10 | Prospect | Team | age | type | July 10 | June 10 |
| 1 | Rasmus Dahlin | BUF | d | 91.3 | 1 | NR |
| 2 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 70.4 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 70.0 | 4 | NR |
| 4 | Samuel Girard | COL | d | 69.0 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Ryan Pulock | NYI | d | 68.0 | 6 | 3 |
| 6 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | d | 67.4 | 8 | 5 |
| 7 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 66.5 | 7 | NR |
| 8 | Thomas Chabot | OTT | d | 66.4 | 5 | 4 |
| 9 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 63.9 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 63.5 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 62.6 | 11 | NR |
| 12 | Erik Brannstrom | VGK | d | 61.7 | 14 | 10 |
| 13 | Henri Jokiharju | CHI | d | 61.7 | 15 | 11 |
| 14 | Jakob Chychrun | ARI | d | 60.5 | 12 | 8 |
| 15 | Julius Honka | DAL | d | 60.3 | 13 | 9 |
| 16 | Tony DeAngelo | NYR | d | 58.9 | 16 | 12 |
| 17 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 58.0 | 20 | 16 |
| 18 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | d | 57.9 | 18 | 14 |
| 19 | Victor Mete | MON | d | 57.7 | 17 | 13 |
| 20 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 57.7 | 22 | 17 |
| 21 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 57.2 | 19 | NR |
| 22 | Travis Sanheim | PHI | d | 56.9 | 21 | 15 |
| 23 | Christian Djoos | WAS | d | 55.8 | 23 | 18 |
| 24 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 55.3 | 25 | 20 |
| 25 | Madison Bowey | WAS | d | 55.2 | 24 | 19 |
| 26 | Brendan Guhle | BUF | d | 55.1 | 26 | 21 |
| 27 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.9 | 27 | 22 |
| 28 | Adam Fox | CAR | d | 54.2 | 28 | 24 |
| 29 | Travis Dermott | TOR | d | 53.8 | 29 | 23 |
| 30 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | d | 53.4 | 30 | 25 |
| 31 | Sebastian Aho (d) | NYI | d | 53.2 | 35 | 30 |
| 32 | Gustav Forsling | CHI | d | 52.4 | 31 | 26 |
| 33 | Libor Hajek | NYR | d | 51.9 | 32 | 27 |
| 34 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 50.5 | 33 | 28 |
| 35 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 49.3 | 44 | 36 |
| 36 | Jake Walman | STL | d | 49.3 | 34 | 29 |
| 37 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 48.8 | 36 | 32 |
| 38 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | ARI | d | 48.8 | 37 | 31 |
| 39 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 48.7 | 38 | NR |
| 40 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 48.0 | 39 | 33 |
| 41 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 47.5 | 40 | 34 |
| 42 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 47.1 | 41 | NR |
| 43 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 46.4 | 42 | 35 |
| 44 | Gabriel Carlsson | CBJ | d | 46.0 | 43 | 37 |
| 45 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 45.7 | 45 | 38 |
| 46 | K'Andre Miller | NYR | d | 45.6 | 46 | NR |
| 47 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 45.3 | 47 | 39 |
| 48 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 45.3 | 48 | 40 |
| 49 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 45.2 | 49 | NR |
| 50 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 45.1 | 50 | 42 |
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