Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – January edition!

As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point are a matter of team needs or personal bias. These rankings are late this month due to the extensive work done in the 11th annual Midseason Fantasy Guide (pick it up here right now!). The Midseason Guide, besides having second-half projections, also has over a dozen NCAA free agents that NHL teams are looking at, plus European players of interest, a look at the 2019 draft, some prospects who could join their NHL club late in the season and help you – and much more! Check it out here!

Friday I posted the Top 300 skaters list (you can find that here). Saturday was the Top 100 defensemen. Monday was the Top 200 prospect forwards list

Click any player name to be taken to his phenomenal prospect profile…

Jan 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	Dec 10	Nov 10
1	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	d	73.2	2	3
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	d	72.2	4	5
3	Cale Makar	COL	d	71.7	3	4
4	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	d	70.0	1	2
5	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	d	69.7	5	8
6	Adam Boqvist	CHI	d	69.5	6	6
7	Evan Bouchard	EDM	d	69.4	7	7
8	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	64.3	8	9
9	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	63.5	9	10
10	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	61.8	10	11
11	Neal Pionk	NYR	d	60.0	11	26
12	Adam Fox	CAR	d	59.8	13	17
13	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	d	58.8	12	12
14	Kale Clague	LAK	d	58.1	14	13
15	Conor Timmins	COL	d	58.0	15	14
16	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	57.7	16	15
17	Noah Dobson	NYI	d	57.2	17	16
18	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	d	56.8	18	20
19	Filip Hronek	DET	d	56.6	19	21
20	Victor Mete	MON	d	56.2	20	22
21	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	55.0	22	24
22	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	54.9	23	25
23	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	54.7	25	37
24	Lawrence Pilut	BUF	d	53.8	37	62
25	Julius Honka	DAL	d	53.6	24	19
26	Brendan Guhle	BUF	d	52.8	21	23
27	Sami Niku	WPG	d	52.5	26	27
28	Ty Smith	NJD	d	52.3	33	35
29	Devon Toews	NYI	d	52.1	27	33
30	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	51.0	28	29
31	Libor Hajek	NYR	d	50.7	29	31
32	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.6	30	32
33	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	49.5	31	34
34	Maxime Lajoie	OTT	d	49.3	32	40
35	Sebastian Aho (d)	NYI	d	48.8	34	28
36	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	ARI	d	48.8	35	38
37	Ryan Merkley	SJS	d	48.7	36	39
38	Josh Mahura	ANA	d	47.9	46	54
39	Jake Bean	CAR	d	47.7	38	50
40	Ian Mitchell	CHI	d	47.0	39	42
41	Cal Foote	TBL	d	46.4	42	43
42	Nicolas Hague	VGK	d	46.3	43	58
43	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	46.3	41	44
44	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	d	45.9	40	30
45	Chad Krys	CHI	d	45.7	44	53
46	K'Andre Miller	NYR	d	45.6	45	45
47	Daniel Brickley	LAK	d	45.3	47	46
48	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	45.3	48	47
49	Louie Belpedio	MIN	d	45.3	49	48
50	Caleb Jones	EDM	d	45.2	71	80

UPCOMING GAMES

	Apr 03 - 19:04	CAR	vs	CBJ
	Apr 03 - 22:04	ANA	vs	L.A

STARTING GOALIES

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HOT PLAYERS

Players	Team	GP	G	A	P
EVGENI MALKIN	PIT	5	4	7	11
ADAM FOX	NYR	4	1	6	7
JAKUB VORACEK	PHI	6	0	10	10
NATHAN MACKINNON	COL	5	2	6	8
MIKA ZIBANEJAD	NYR	29	25	19	44
NIKITA KUCHEROV	T.B	24	16	20	36
KEVIN FIALA	MIN	11	9	7	16
KYLE CONNOR	WPG	7	8	2	10
EVANDER KANE	S.J	7	5	5	10
RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS	EDM	17	8	16	24