Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – April 2020
Dobber
2020-04-14
Here are the Top 50 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – April edition!
As always, players +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs.
Click on any player name to be taken to his scouting profile over at DobberProspects. You can find the Top 200 fantasy prospect forwards here.
The following rearguards were graduated from this month’s list:
Ryan Graves
Vladislav Gavrikov
Ethan Bear
Carson Soucy
Adam Fox
Tucker Poolman
Henri Jokiharju
| Apr | Prospect | Team | type | Prospect Rating | Mar | Feb |
| 1 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 74.9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 70.6 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 68.4 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 66.2 | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 62.0 | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 60.7 | 8 | 8 |
| 7 | Bowen Byram | COL | d | 60.1 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 54.1 | 14 | 18 |
| 9 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 53.5 | 10 | 10 |
| 10 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 51.2 | 11 | 11 |
| 11 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 50.2 | 12 | 13 |
| 12 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 48.6 | 13 | 12 |
| 13 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 48.0 | 17 | 16 |
| 14 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 47.7 | 18 | 17 |
| 15 | Moritz Seider | DET | d | 47.7 | 27 | 25 |
| 16 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 47.6 | 33 | 33 |
| 17 | Calen Addison | MIN | d | 46.8 | 20 | 20 |
| 18 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 46.6 | 22 | 29 |
| 19 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | d | 46.6 | 35 | 63 |
| 20 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 46.3 | 30 | 30 |
| 21 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | d | 46.3 | 28 | 27 |
| 22 | Thomas Harley | DAL | d | 45.4 | 26 | 24 |
| 23 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 44.8 | 25 | 28 |
| 24 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | d | 44.6 | 21 | 21 |
| 25 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 44.5 | 19 | 19 |
| 26 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | d | 43.5 | 16 | 15 |
| 27 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 43.0 | 40 | 40 |
| 28 | Ville Heinola | WPG | d | 42.3 | 23 | 22 |
| 29 | Bode Wilde | NYI | d | 40.9 | 44 | 43 |
| 30 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 40.6 | 29 | 31 |
| 31 | Brogan Rafferty | VAN | d | 40.6 | 32 | 45 |
| 32 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 40.0 | 36 | 36 |
| 33 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 39.8 | 31 | 32 |
| 34 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 39.1 | 34 | 35 |
| 35 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 38.7 | 37 | 37 |
| 36 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 38.5 | 38 | 38 |
| 37 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 37.5 | 39 | 39 |
| 38 | Mario Ferraro | SJS | d | 36.9 | 42 | 41 |
| 39 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 36.3 | 43 | 42 |
| 40 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 36.1 | 41 | 34 |
| 41 | Andrew Peeke | CBJ | d | 35.2 | 51 | 51 |
| 42 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | d | 35.0 | 45 | 50 |
| 43 | Caleb Jones | EDM | d | 33.9 | 53 | 54 |
| 44 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 33.1 | 46 | 44 |
| 45 | Jack Ahcan | BOS | d | 33.0 | NR | NR |
| 46 | Brennan Menell | MIN | d | 32.6 | 71 | 70 |
| 47 | Jared McIsaac | DET | d | 32.3 | 48 | 47 |
| 48 | Dylan Samberg | WPG | d | 32.1 | 74 | 118 |
| 49 | Josh Brook | MON | d | 32.0 | 50 | 49 |
| 50 | David Farrance | NSH | d | 30.3 | 70 | 247 |
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