Here are the top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only fantasy hockey keeper leagues – August edition!
Not a whole lot of changes this month, just some tweaks. As always, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point are based on personal bias or team need.
Click on any player name to be taken to his fantasy scouting profile over at DobberProspects. Check out yesterday’s Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards list too.
| Aug | Prospect | Team | type | Prospect Rating | July | May |
| 1 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 73.8 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 70.7 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 70.4 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 67.6 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 62.1 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Bowen Byram | COL | d | 60.4 | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 58.5 | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | d | 56.4 | 8 | 19 |
| 9 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | d | 55.3 | 9 | 24 |
| 10 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 54.5 | 10 | 8 |
| 11 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | d | 53.9 | 11 | 22 |
| 12 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 52.9 | 12 | 18 |
| 13 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | d | 52.7 | 21 | 26 |
| 14 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 52.0 | 13 | 13 |
| 15 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 51.8 | 15 | 11 |
| 16 | Ville Heinola | WPG | d | 49.4 | 14 | 28 |
| 17 | Thomas Harley | DAL | d | 47.7 | 16 | 12 |
| 18 | Moritz Seider | DET | d | 47.7 | 17 | 15 |
| 19 | Calen Addison | MIN | d | 46.8 | 18 | 17 |
| 20 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 46.8 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 46.5 | 20 | 16 |
| 22 | Bode Wilde | NYI | d | 44.6 | 22 | 29 |
| 23 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 44.5 | 23 | 25 |
| 24 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 43.8 | 24 | 21 |
| 25 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 43.6 | 25 | 27 |
| 26 | Brogan Rafferty | VAN | d | 41.6 | 26 | 31 |
| 27 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 40.6 | 27 | 30 |
| 28 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 40.4 | 28 | 36 |
| 29 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 40.0 | 29 | 32 |
| 30 | Mikko Lehtonen | TOR | d | 39.5 | 36 | NR |
| 31 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 38.7 | 30 | 35 |
| 32 | Brennan Menell | MIN | d | 37.9 | 31 | 47 |
| 33 | David Farrance | NSH | d | 37.6 | 32 | 51 |
| 34 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 37.5 | 33 | 23 |
| 35 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 37.5 | 34 | 39 |
| 36 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 36.1 | 35 | 40 |
| 37 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | d | 35.7 | 37 | 42 |
| 38 | Lassi Thomson | OTT | d | 34.6 | 38 | 52 |
| 39 | Max Gildon | FLA | d | 33.7 | 39 | 44 |
| 40 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 33.1 | 40 | 45 |
| 41 | Jared McIsaac | DET | d | 32.3 | 41 | 48 |
| 42 | Dylan Samberg | WPG | d | 32.1 | 42 | 49 |
| 43 | Joey Keane | CAR | d | 32.1 | 43 | 56 |
| 44 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 32.1 | 44 | 34 |
| 45 | Josh Brook | MON | d | 32.0 | 45 | 50 |
| 46 | Christian Wolanin | OTT | d | 31.7 | 46 | 62 |
| 47 | Jack Ahcan | BOS | d | 31.0 | 47 | 46 |
| 48 | Andrew Peeke | CBJ | d | 30.3 | 48 | 41 |
| 49 | Jack Rathbone | VAN | d | 30.0 | 49 | 91 |
| 50 | Brinson Pasichnuk | SJS | d | 29.3 | 50 | 53 |
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