Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – April 2019
Dobber
2019-04-17
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – April edition!
Lots of graduates this month, I listed them at the bottom of the page. Lots of graduates means plenty of newcomers to this list and lots of movement upwards. On Monday evening the Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards were posted.
Click on any player name to be taken to that player's DobberProspects profile (complete with upside, certainty, observations and more).
| Apr 10 | Prospect | Team | age | type | Mar 10 | Feb 10 |
| 1 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 74.1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 73.6 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 73.6 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 69.5 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 69.4 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Henri Jokiharju | CHI | d | 68.3 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 65.3 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Adam Fox | CAR | d | 62.8 | 11 | 10 |
| 9 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 62.2 | 18 | 18 |
| 10 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 61.1 | 13 | 14 |
| 11 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 60.3 | 10 | 8 |
| 12 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 59.4 | 9 | 9 |
| 13 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 59.2 | 42 | 39 |
| 14 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 58.5 | 21 | 21 |
| 15 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 58.1 | 12 | 12 |
| 16 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 57.2 | 14 | 15 |
| 17 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 56.8 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 56.6 | 25 | 25 |
| 19 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.9 | 20 | 20 |
| 20 | K'Andre Miller | NYR | d | 53.8 | 46 | 44 |
| 21 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 53.7 | 130 | 132 |
| 22 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 53.4 | 24 | 24 |
| 23 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 53.0 | 60 | 60 |
| 24 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 53.0 | 23 | 23 |
| 25 | Calle Rosen | TOR | d | 52.5 | 44 | 48 |
| 26 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 52.2 | 26 | 26 |
| 27 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 51.4 | 40 | 38 |
| 28 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | ARI | d | 51.4 | 35 | 35 |
| 29 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 51.1 | 37 | 42 |
| 30 | Chad Krys | CHI | d | 50.7 | 45 | 43 |
| 31 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 49.8 | 38 | 37 |
| 32 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 49.7 | 29 | 29 |
| 33 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 49.6 | 67 | 67 |
| 34 | Maxime Lajoie | OTT | d | 49.4 | 31 | 31 |
| 35 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 48.9 | 33 | 33 |
| 36 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 48.8 | 27 | 27 |
| 37 | Sebastian Aho (d) | NYI | d | 48.8 | 34 | 34 |
| 38 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 48.4 | 47 | 45 |
| 39 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 47.9 | 36 | 36 |
| 40 | Joel Persson | EDM | d | 47.7 | 59 | 86 |
| 41 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 47.4 | 39 | 41 |
| 42 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 47.4 | 48 | 46 |
| 43 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 47.3 | 61 | 61 |
| 44 | Caleb Jones | EDM | d | 47.2 | 49 | 47 |
| 45 | Jett Woo | VAN | d | 47.0 | 41 | 71 |
| 46 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 46.4 | 43 | 40 |
| 47 | Erik Cernak | TBL | d | 45.1 | 78 | 78 |
| 48 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | d | 44.8 | 50 | 50 |
| 49 | Calen Addison | PIT | d | 44.6 | 51 | 52 |
| 50 | Reilly Walsh | NJD | d | 44.3 | 58 | 59 |
Graduated this month:
| 7 | DeAngelo | Tony | NYR |
| 15 | Andersson | Rasmus | CGY |
| 17 | Mete | Victor | MON |
| 19 | Pionk | Neal | NYR |
| 22 | Toews | Devon | NYI |
| 30 | Honka | Julius | DAL |
| 32 | Bowey | Madison | DET |
| 137 | Jaros | Christian | OTT |
| 154 | Harpur | Ben | OTT |
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