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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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
EVANDER KANE	S.J	7	5	5	10
KYLE CONNOR	WPG	7	8	2	10
RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS	EDM	17	8	16	24