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

As always, players with a rating +/-5.0 points of each other should be considered equal, and at that point it becomes a matter of team needs (upside vs. wait time vs. certainty) and/or personal bias.

Lots of movement this month, as I graduated a few players. To be graduated, the player has to fulfill a long list of rigorous criteria (just kidding – I just use my gut. No rules, just my gut). Here are the players who graduated this month:

Addison Calen MIN
Power Owen BUF
Lundkvist Nils DAL
Sanderson Jake OTT
Joseph Pierre-Olivier PIT
Perbix Nick TBL
Samberg Dylan WPG
Samuelsson Mattias BUF
Mahura Josh FLA

You can find the top fantasy prospect forwards list here.

Click a player name to be take to their DobberProspects player profile for observations and insight.

Feb	Prospect	Team	Type	Prospect Rating	Jan	Dec
1	Kaiden Guhle	MON	LD	64.8	4	5
2	Simon Nemec	NJD	RD	61.8	6	6
3	Luke Hughes	NJD	LD	57.6	8	8
4	Brandt Clarke	LAK	RD	55.8	10	10
5	David Jiricek	CBJ	RD	55.1	11	11
6	Scott Perunovich	STL	LD	52.9	7	7
7	Simon Edvinsson	DET	LD	52.3	13	13
8	Braden Schneider	NYR	RD	51.1	12	12
9	Philip Broberg	EDM	LD	49.6	9	9
10	Olen Zellweger	ANA	LD	48.1	22	22
11	Jordan Spence	LAK	RD	48.0	17	17
12	Victor Soderstrom	ARI	RD	47.3	18	18
13	Ryan Merkley	COL	RD	46.5	16	16
14	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	LD	46.3	19	34
15	Ville Heinola	WPG	LD	46.2	20	19
16	Justin Barron	MON	RD	45.1	21	20
17	Cam York	PHI	LD	43.8	23	21
18	Jack Rathbone	VAN	LD	43.5	15	15
19	Jeremie Poirier	CGY	LD	42.7	33	33
20	Scott Morrow	CAR	RD	42.4	24	23
21	Zac Jones	NYR	LD	42.2	25	24
22	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	LD	40.7	28	28
23	Helge Grans	LAK	RD	40.6	29	29
24	Jordan Harris	MON	LD	39.2	38	38
25	Thomas Harley	DAL	LD	39.2	30	30
26	Robin Salo	NYI	LD	39.2	31	31
27	Ian Mitchell	CHI	RD	39.0	32	32
28	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	LD	38.9	39	39
29	Carson Lambos	MIN	LD	37.9	34	35
30	Conor Timmins	TOR	RD	37.5	36	54
31	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	LD	37.1	37	37
32	Lukas Cormier	VGK	LD	35.7	40	40
33	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ	RD	35.7	41	41
34	Ryker Evans	SEA	LD	35.3	42	42
35	Yegor Zamula	PHI	LD	35.0	43	43
36	Topi Niemela	TOR	RD	34.8	44	44
37	Lassi Thomson	OTT	RD	34.4	45	45
38	Jackson LaCombe	ANA	LD	33.7	61	62
39	Daniil Miromanov	VGK	RD	33.1	47	47
40	Kaedan Korczak	VGK	RD	31.9	35	36
41	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	LD	31.7	48	48
42	Lane Hutson	MON	LD	31.6	82	197
43	Emil Andrae	PHI	LD	31.5	49	49
44	Ronnie Attard	PHI	RD	31.5	50	50
45	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ	RD	31.2	51	51
46	Mason Lohrei	BOS	LD	31.0	53	53
47	John Ludvig	FLA	LD	29.9	56	57
48	Alec Regula	CHI	RD	29.3	59	60
49	Samuel Bolduc	NYI	LD	29.0	60	61
50	Ryan O’Rourke	MIN	LD	28.2	63	64

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	JOSH DOAN	BUF

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	JET GREAVES	CBJ
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	LINUS ULLMARK	OTT
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	UTA Players
	22.4	NICK SCHMALTZ CLAYTON KELLER LAWSON CROUSE
	21.9	JJ PETERKA ALEXANDER KERFOOT MICHAEL CARCONE
	15.7	KAILER YAMAMOTO DYLAN GUENTHER LOGAN COOLEY

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