Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen
Dobber
2021-04-13
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 |
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