Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – July 2022
Dobber
2022-07-12
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – July edition!
The 2022 draftees are in. About 100 players were added to the template, and just when I finished… all the RFA qualifying offer news started coming out and I made those adjustments as well.
Click on any player name to be taken to his DobberProspects scouting profile. To see the Top 200 fantasy prospect forwards, click here.
As always, players ranked between +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team need (wait time vs. certainty vs. upside) or personal bias.
And don’t forget – pick up the Fantasy Prospects Report here, or grab the FPR and the Fantasy Guide in our Keeper League Fantasy Pack here.
| July | Prospect | Team | Shoots | Prospect Rating | June | May |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Perunovich | STL | LD | 70.6 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Jake Sanderson | OTT | LD | 64.2 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Owen Power | BUF | LD | 63.7 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | Calen Addison | MIN | RD | 63.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | Simon Nemec | NJD | RD | 62.3 | NR | NR |
| 6 | Braden Schneider | NYR | RD | 58.0 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | Luke Hughes | NJD | LD | 57.4 | 6 | 14 |
| 8 | Philip Broberg | EDM | LD | 55.9 | 7 | 19 |
| 9 | Kaiden Guhle | MON | LD | 54.6 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | Brandt Clarke | LAK | RD | 53.7 | 12 | 11 |
| 11 | Nils Lundkvist | NYR | RD | 53.5 | 8 | 9 |
| 12 | Cameron York | PHI | LD | 53.1 | 11 | 10 |
| 13 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | LD | 53.0 | 9 | 8 |
| 14 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | RD | 52.2 | 14 | 12 |
| 15 | Simon Edvinsson | DET | LD | 51.8 | 15 | 17 |
| 16 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | RD | 51.4 | 13 | 5 |
| 17 | Jack Rathbone | VAN | LD | 49.1 | 16 | 18 |
| 18 | Ville Heinola | WPG | LD | 48.1 | 17 | 15 |
| 19 | Jordan Spence | LAK | RD | 45.7 | 18 | 16 |
| 20 | Justin Barron | MON | RD | 45.0 | 19 | 13 |
| 21 | Scott Morrow | CAR | RD | 42.1 | 20 | 31 |
| 22 | Denton Mateychuk | CBJ | LD | 40.7 | NR | NR |
| 23 | Helge Grans | LAK | RD | 40.5 | 22 | 66 |
| 24 | Olen Zellweger | ANA | LD | 39.1 | 30 | 26 |
| 25 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | RD | 39.0 | 21 | 20 |
| 26 | Thomas Harley | DAL | LD | 38.7 | 25 | 23 |
| 27 | Zachary Jones | NYR | LD | 38.4 | 23 | 21 |
| 28 | David Jiricek | CBJ | RD | 38.4 | NR | NR |
| 29 | Robin Salo | NYI | LD | 37.8 | 24 | 22 |
| 30 | Nick Perbix | TBL | RD | 37.7 | 26 | 72 |
| 31 | Carson Lambos | MIN | LD | 37.7 | 32 | 27 |
| 32 | Pavel Mintyukov | ANA | LD | 37.7 | NR | NR |
| 33 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | LD | 37.6 | 27 | 35 |
| 34 | Janis Moser | ARI | LD | 37.6 | 28 | 24 |
| 35 | Mattias Samuelsson | BUF | LD | 37.5 | 29 | 25 |
| 36 | Kevin Korchinski | CHI | LD | 37.1 | NR | NR |
| 37 | Lukas Cormier | VGK | LD | 35.7 | 38 | 32 |
| 38 | Nick Blankenburg | CBJ | RD | 35.7 | 31 | 64 |
| 39 | Joey Keane | CAR | RD | 35.5 | 33 | 49 |
| 40 | Ryker Evans | SEA | LD | 35.3 | 39 | 33 |
| 41 | Topi Niemela | TOR | RD | 34.8 | 41 | 61 |
| 42 | Jordan Harris | MON | LD | 34.8 | 34 | 60 |
| 43 | Yegor Zamula | PHI | LD | 34.6 | 35 | 28 |
| 44 | Kaedan Korczak | VGK | RD | 34.3 | 40 | 54 |
| 45 | Josh Mahura | ANA | LD | 34.1 | 37 | 30 |
| 46 | Lassi Thomson | OTT | RD | 33.7 | 42 | 38 |
| 47 | Lucas Carlsson | FLA | LD | 32.5 | 43 | 40 |
| 48 | Daniil Miromanov | VGK | RD | 31.9 | 44 | 42 |
| 49 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | LD | 31.6 | 45 | 71 |
| 50 | Reilly Walsh | NJD | RD | 31.1 | 46 | 34 |
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