Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – April edition!

The Top 200 fantasy prospect forwards were posted way back on the weekend, and then we had the trade deadline interrupting the fantasy hockey world for a couple of days. Getting back to business, below is a list of the defensemen. As always, players between +/-5.0 ratings should be considered equal value.

Click on any name to be taken to his fantasy hockey scouting profile page.

The following prospects have been graduated from the list:

Smith Ty NJD
Dobson Noah NYI
Zub Artem OTT
Forsling Gustav FLA
Hague Nicolas VGK
Walman Jake STL

Apr	Prospect	Team	Type	Prospect Rating	Mar	Feb
1	Bowen Byram	COL	LD	69.8	3	3
2	Adam Boqvist	CHI	RD	69.6	4	5
3	Evan Bouchard	EDM	RD	69.1	5	4
4	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	LD	65.6	6	6
5	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	LD	63.5	7	7
6	K’Andre Miller	NYR	LD	61.9	8	10
7	Nils Lundkvist	NYR	RD	61.1	9	9
8	Victor Soderstrom	ARI	RD	55.5	10	11
9	Scott Perunovich	STL	LD	54.5	11	12
10	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	LD	54.1	12	8
11	Ryan Merkley	SJS	RD	54.0	13	13
12	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	LD	52.9	14	14
13	Alexander Romanov	MON	LD	52.8	15	15
14	Calen Addison	MIN	RD	51.7	16	19
15	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	RD	51.6	23	30
16	Ville Heinola	WPG	LD	50.6	17	16
17	Moritz Seider	DET	RD	49.2	18	18
18	Ian Mitchell	CHI	RD	48.8	19	17
19	Thomas Harley	DAL	LD	46.9	20	20
20	Conor Timmins	COL	RD	45.6	21	22
21	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	LD	45.1	22	23
22	David Farrance	NSH	LD	44.5	30	33
23	Bode Wilde	NYI	RD	44.3	24	21
24	Jake Bean	CAR	LD	43.4	26	28
25	Kale Clague	LAK	LD	43.0	27	27
26	Dennis Cholowski	DET	LD	41.4	29	Grad
27	Lassi Thomson	OTT	RD	39.6	31	36
28	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	RD	39.4	32	34
29	Josh Mahura	ANA	LD	38.8	33	29
30	Sami Niku	WPG	LD	38.4	25	24
31	Cal Foote	TBL	RD	37.0	36	42
32	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI	LD	36.0	37	44
33	Yegor Zamula	PHI	LD	35.3	39	35
34	Jack Rathbone	VAN	LD	35.1	40	50
35	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	LD	34.3	38	37
36	Brendan Guhle	ANA	LD	33.9	35	32
37	Max Gildon	FLA	LD	33.7	41	38
38	Jake Sanderson	OTT	LD	33.5	42	39
39	Cameron York	PHI	LD	33.3	43	40
40	Jared McIsaac	DET	LD	33.3	44	41
41	Dylan Coghlan	VGK	RD	32.5	120	118
42	Joey Keane	CAR	RD	32.1	47	46
43	Josh Brook	MON	RD	32.1	46	45
44	Tobias Bjornfot	LAK	LD	31.7	48	60
45	Dylan Samberg	WPG	LD	31.1	49	47
46	Jack Ahcan	BOS	LD	30.7	50	51
47	Martin Fehervary	WAS	LD	29.5	52	52
48	Philip Broberg	EDM	LD	29.4	53	53
49	Kaiden Guhle	MON	LD	29.1	55	55
50	Axel Andersson	ANA	RD	28.6	56	56