Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – May 2021
Dobber
2021-05-14
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – May edition!
As always, players ranked within +/- 5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs (wait time or upside more important?) and personal bias.
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| May | Prospect | Team | type | Prospect Rating | Apr | Mar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bowen Byram | COL | LD | 69.8 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | RD | 69.1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | RD | 69.0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | LD | 65.6 | 6 | 8 |
| 5 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | LD | 65.6 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | LD | 63.5 | 5 | 7 |
| 7 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | RD | 61.1 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | RD | 55.5 | 8 | 10 |
| 9 | Calen Addison | MIN | RD | 55.4 | 14 | 16 |
| 10 | Jamie Drysdale | ANA | RD | 55.3 | 15 | 23 |
| 11 | Scott Perunovich | STL | LD | 54.5 | 9 | 11 |
| 12 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | LD | 54.1 | 10 | 12 |
| 13 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | RD | 54.0 | 11 | 13 |
| 14 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | LD | 52.9 | 12 | 14 |
| 15 | Alexander Romanov | MON | LD | 52.8 | 13 | 15 |
| 16 | Ville Heinola | WPG | LD | 50.6 | 16 | 17 |
| 17 | Moritz Seider | DET | RD | 49.2 | 17 | 18 |
| 18 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | LD | 48.9 | 21 | 22 |
| 19 | Thomas Harley | DAL | LD | 46.9 | 19 | 20 |
| 20 | Conor Timmins | COL | RD | 45.6 | 20 | 21 |
| 21 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | RD | 45.4 | 18 | 19 |
| 22 | David Farrance | NSH | LD | 44.5 | 22 | 30 |
| 23 | Jake Bean | CAR | LD | 43.4 | 24 | 26 |
| 24 | Kale Clague | LAK | LD | 43.0 | 25 | 27 |
| 25 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | LD | 42.5 | 32 | 37 |
| 26 | Wyatt Kalynuk | CHI | LD | 41.8 | 61 | 64 |
| 27 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | LD | 41.4 | 26 | 29 |
| 28 | Cameron York | PHI | LD | 39.9 | 39 | 43 |
| 29 | Lassi Thomson | OTT | RD | 39.6 | 27 | 31 |
| 30 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | RD | 39.4 | 28 | 32 |
| 31 | Josh Mahura | ANA | LD | 38.8 | 29 | 33 |
| 32 | Bode Wilde | NYI | RD | 38.1 | 23 | 24 |
| 33 | Cal Foote | TBL | RD | 37.0 | 31 | 36 |
| 34 | Mattias Samuelsson | BUF | LD | 36.7 | 83 | 85 |
| 35 | Sami Niku | WPG | LD | 36.1 | 30 | 25 |
| 36 | Jack Rathbone | VAN | LD | 35.6 | 34 | 40 |
| 37 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | LD | 35.3 | 33 | 39 |
| 38 | Max Gildon | FLA | LD | 33.7 | 37 | 41 |
| 39 | Jake Sanderson | OTT | LD | 33.5 | 38 | 42 |
| 40 | Jared McIsaac | DET | LD | 33.3 | 40 | 44 |
| 41 | Philip Broberg | EDM | LD | 33.1 | 48 | 53 |
| 42 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | LD | 32.9 | 36 | 35 |
| 43 | Dylan Coghlan | VGK | RD | 32.5 | 41 | 120 |
| 44 | Joey Keane | CAR | RD | 32.1 | 42 | 47 |
| 45 | Josh Brook | MON | RD | 32.1 | 43 | 46 |
| 46 | Mikey Anderson | LAK | LD | 32.1 | 69 | 70 |
| 47 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | LD | 31.8 | 35 | 38 |
| 48 | Tobias Bjornfot | LAK | LD | 31.7 | 44 | 48 |
| 49 | Dylan Samberg | WPG | LD | 31.1 | 45 | 49 |
| 50 | Jack Ahcan | BOS | LD | 30.7 | 46 | 50 |
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