Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen
Dobber
2020-05-13
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – coronavirus* edition!
*don’t worry, you won’t need to wear a mask and gloves to read these. Fully sanitized for your protection!
Work is well underway for the 2020 edition of the Fantasy Prospects Report. The FPR will be up for presale shortly after the NHL announces a draft date. Basically we will release the FPR on June 1-4 (sometime in there, as we scramble to put it together) if the draft is in early June. If the draft is in the fall, we will release it in July (with an update in October for the draft).
Adjustments this month have been made based on notes and profiles that have come in so far. As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and would depend on your own fantasy team’s needs and/or personal bias. The Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards were posted Tuesday (here).
Click any player name to be taken to his scouting profile.
| May | Prospect | Team | type | Prospect Rating | Apr | Mar |
| 1 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 74.9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 70.6 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 68.4 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 66.2 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 62.0 | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 60.7 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | Bowen Byram | COL | d | 60.1 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 54.1 | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 53.5 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 51.2 | 10 | 11 |
| 11 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 50.2 | 11 | 12 |
| 12 | Thomas Harley | DAL | d | 49.2 | 22 | 26 |
| 13 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 48.0 | 13 | 17 |
| 14 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 47.7 | 14 | 18 |
| 15 | Moritz Seider | DET | d | 47.7 | 15 | 27 |
| 16 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 47.6 | 16 | 33 |
| 17 | Calen Addison | MIN | d | 46.8 | 17 | 20 |
| 18 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 46.6 | 18 | 22 |
| 19 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | d | 46.6 | 19 | 35 |
| 20 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 46.5 | 12 | 13 |
| 21 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 46.3 | 20 | 30 |
| 22 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | d | 46.3 | 21 | 28 |
| 23 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 44.8 | 23 | 25 |
| 24 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | d | 44.6 | 24 | 21 |
| 25 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 44.5 | 25 | 19 |
| 26 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | d | 43.5 | 26 | 16 |
| 27 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 43.0 | 27 | 40 |
| 28 | Ville Heinola | WPG | d | 42.3 | 28 | 23 |
| 29 | Bode Wilde | NYI | d | 40.9 | 29 | 44 |
| 30 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 40.6 | 30 | 29 |
| 31 | Brogan Rafferty | VAN | d | 40.6 | 31 | 32 |
| 32 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 40.0 | 32 | 36 |
| 33 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 39.8 | 33 | 31 |
| 34 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 39.1 | 34 | 34 |
| 35 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 38.7 | 35 | 37 |
| 36 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 38.5 | 36 | 38 |
| 37 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 37.5 | 37 | 39 |
| 38 | Mario Ferraro | SJS | d | 36.9 | 38 | 42 |
| 39 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 36.3 | 39 | 43 |
| 40 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 36.1 | 40 | 41 |
| 41 | Andrew Peeke | CBJ | d | 35.2 | 41 | 51 |
| 42 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | d | 35.0 | 42 | 45 |
| 43 | Caleb Jones | EDM | d | 33.9 | 43 | 53 |
| 44 | Max Gildon | FLA | d | 33.7 | 52 | 54 |
| 45 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 33.1 | 44 | 46 |
| 46 | Jack Ahcan | BOS | d | 33.0 | 45 | NR |
| 47 | Brennan Menell | MIN | d | 32.6 | 46 | 71 |
| 48 | Jared McIsaac | DET | d | 32.3 | 47 | 48 |
| 49 | Dylan Samberg | WPG | d | 32.1 | 48 | 74 |
| 50 | Josh Brook | MON | d | 32.0 | 49 | 50 |
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