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

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As always, players ranked within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of your keeper team’s needs (immediate help vs long-term upside) or personal preference.

Note: We are in the process of researching/putting together our annual Fantasy Prospects Report. So while some of the prospects below have been updated and adjusted, others have not. For next month (and in the FPR itself), all prospects will be adjusted and I would consider that chart the most accurate of the year.

You can see the impact of Chicago winning the draft lottery here. Think about the future of the power play…

May	Prospect	Team	Type	Prospect Rating	Apr	Mar
1	Kevin Korchinski	CHI	LD	68.3	10	12
2	David Jiricek	CBJ	RD	67.6	1	1
3	Luke Hughes	NJD	LD	63.0	2	4
4	Simon Nemec	NJD	RD	62.0	3	3
5	Brandt Clarke	LAK	RD	56.8	4	5
6	Pavel Mintyukov	ANA	LD	53.6	12	14
7	Simon Edvinsson	DET	LD	53.3	6	7
8	Scott Perunovich	STL	LD	53.2	5	6
9	Olen Zellweger	ANA	LD	49.1	8	10
10	Philip Broberg	EDM	LD	48.6	7	9
11	Jordan Spence	LAK	RD	47.1	9	11
12	Alexander Nikishin	CAR	LD	45.8	14	16
13	Ville Heinola	WPG	LD	45.2	13	15
14	Justin Barron	MON	RD	45.1	15	17
15	Scott Morrow	CAR	RD	43.4	17	20
16	Victor Soderstrom	ARI	RD	42.0	11	13
17	Denton Mateychuk	CBJ	LD	41.7	20	23
18	Zac Jones	NYR	LD	41.2	18	21
19	Helge Grans	LAK	RD	40.6	21	24
20	Ryan Merkley	COL	RD	39.1	22	25
21	Jack Rathbone	VAN	LD	39.0	19	22
22	Carson Lambos	MIN	LD	38.9	26	30
23	Corson Ceulemans	CBJ	RD	38.6	27	31
24	Thomas Harley	DAL	LD	38.2	23	27
25	Robin Salo	NYI	LD	38.2	24	28
26	Ian Mitchell	CHI	RD	38.0	25	29
27	Jeremie Poirier	CGY	LD	37.3	16	19
28	Jackson LaCombe	ANA	LD	36.1	35	39
29	Lukas Cormier	VGK	LD	35.7	29	33
30	Ryker Evans	SEA	LD	35.3	30	34
31	Henry Thrun	SJS	LD	35.3	28	69
32	Topi Niemela	TOR	RD	34.8	32	36
33	Yegor Zamula	PHI	LD	34.0	31	35
34	Lassi Thomson	OTT	RD	33.4	33	38
35	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ	RD	33.3	34	37
36	Lane Hutson	MON	LD	32.6	38	43
37	Daniil Miromanov	VGK	RD	32.1	36	40
38	Emil Andrae	PHI	LD	31.5	39	44
39	Stanislav Svozil	CBJ	LD	31.1	42	47
40	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	LD	30.7	37	42
41	Ronnie Attard	PHI	RD	30.5	40	45
42	Mason Lohrei	BOS	LD	30.0	41	46
43	Owen Pickering	PIT	LD	28.2	53	58
44	Ryan O’Rourke	MIN	LD	28.2	46	51
45	Alec Regula	CHI	RD	28.0	43	49
46	Samuel Bolduc	NYI	LD	28.0	44	50
47	Kaedan Korczak	VGK	RD	27.7	45	41
48	Reilly Walsh	NJD	RD	27.2	47	52
49	Dmitri Kuzmin	WPG	LD	27.1	61	66
50	Domenick Fensore	CAR	LD	26.7	48	53