Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – February 2020
Dobber
2020-02-27
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – February edition!
This month I have added over 40 new prospects to my template (most didn’t make this Top 200 though), as I have been going through each team’s entire system and looking at how the players are doing, checking out what the organization and the scouts are saying, and tweaking as needed. It’s the reason for the extreme lateness this month – and I’m not even through yet. But at this point it looks as though I’ll be done on March 10 – which is when the next prospect rankings come out. So need to delay these ones any longer, I’ll just post what I have! (You can check out the Top 200 forwards here)
As always, players who are within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias.
o=offensive player, p=power forward, os=offense but small, t=two-way
Click on a player name to be taken to his DobberProspects scouting profile. This month I graduated Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes (duh!).
| Feb | Prospect | Team | age | type | Jan | Dec |
| 1 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 74.9 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Adam Fox | NYR | d | 72.4 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 70.6 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 69.2 | 6 | 3 |
| 5 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 66.2 | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | Henri Jokiharju | BUF | d | 63.7 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 63.5 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 57.0 | 10 | 15 |
| 9 | Bowen Byram | COL | d | 56.3 | 11 | 11 |
| 10 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 53.5 | 12 | 14 |
| 11 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 52.6 | 14 | 13 |
| 12 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 50.7 | 15 | 19 |
| 13 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 50.6 | 19 | 27 |
| 14 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 49.5 | 16 | 23 |
| 15 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | d | 49.0 | 17 | 16 |
| 16 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 48.0 | 13 | 12 |
| 17 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 47.7 | 18 | 17 |
| 18 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 46.6 | 20 | 18 |
| 19 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 45.2 | 21 | 20 |
| 20 | Calen Addison | MIN | d | 45.2 | 24 | 63 |
| 21 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | d | 44.6 | 22 | 21 |
| 22 | Ville Heinola | WPG | d | 44.5 | 23 | 22 |
| 23 | Ryan Graves | COL | d | 44.3 | 69 | 70 |
| 24 | Thomas Harley | DAL | d | 42.2 | 32 | 33 |
| 25 | Moritz Seider | DET | d | 42.2 | 25 | 24 |
| 26 | John Marino | PIT | d | 41.9 | 30 | 32 |
| 27 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | d | 41.5 | 26 | 25 |
| 28 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 41.3 | 27 | 26 |
| 29 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 41.0 | 28 | 28 |
| 30 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 40.3 | 31 | 31 |
| 31 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 40.0 | 33 | 41 |
| 32 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 39.8 | 34 | 34 |
| 33 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 39.4 | 35 | 35 |
| 34 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 39.2 | 37 | 30 |
| 35 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 39.1 | 36 | 36 |
| 36 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 38.7 | 45 | 45 |
| 37 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 38.7 | 29 | 29 |
| 38 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 38.5 | 38 | 37 |
| 39 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 37.5 | 41 | 40 |
| 40 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 37.5 | 47 | 46 |
| 41 | Mario Ferraro | SJS | d | 36.9 | 39 | 55 |
| 42 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 36.3 | 40 | 38 |
| 43 | Bode Wilde | NYI | d | 35.7 | 43 | 43 |
| 44 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 33.1 | 48 | 47 |
| 45 | Brogan Rafferty | VAN | d | 33.1 | 66 | 64 |
| 46 | Jett Woo | VAN | d | 32.5 | 49 | 48 |
| 47 | Jared McIsaac | DET | d | 32.3 | 50 | 49 |
| 48 | Vladislav Gavrikov | CBJ | d | 32.3 | 75 | 77 |
| 49 | Josh Brook | MON | d | 32.0 | 44 | 44 |
| 50 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | d | 31.7 | 52 | 127 |
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