Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – April 2017
Dobber
2017-04-19
The Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your keeper league – April edition.
Factors include position in the depth chart, upside, likelihood of making the NHL, wait time (how long he'll be hogging a spot on your reserve roster before finally helping your team), and team investment (draft spot, or assets given up in a trade, etc). Type: offense, offensive-small, power forward, two-way.
Top 200 prospect forwards were posted yesterday – here.
Click on any player name to be taken to their scouting/outlook profile with stats, etc.
| Apr 10 | Prospect | Team | age | type | Mar 10 | Feb 10 |
| 1 | Shea Theodore | ANA | d | 64.9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Thomas Chabot | OTT | d | 62.7 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | Mikhail Sergachev | MON | d | 61.6 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | Julius Honka | DAL | d | 60.8 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Anthony DeAngelo | ARI | d | 59.1 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 | Brandon Montour | ANA | d | 58.7 | 8 | 16 |
| 7 | Ryan Pulock | NYI | d | 58.3 | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | Charlie McAvoy | BOS | d | 57.8 | 19 | 30 |
| 9 | Jakob Chychrun | ARI | d | 57.4 | 11 | 12 |
| 10 | Connor Carrick | TOR | d | 56.7 | 9 | 9 |
| 11 | Joshua Morrissey | WPG | d | 56.6 | 12 | 14 |
| 12 | Madison Bowey | WAS | d | 56.1 | 13 | 13 |
| 13 | Travis Sanheim | PHI | d | 55.6 | 14 | 17 |
| 14 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.7 | 16 | 18 |
| 15 | Gustav Forsling | CHI | d | 54.6 | 15 | 10 |
| 16 | Jake Walman | STL | d | 53.1 | 24 | 25 |
| 17 | Derrick Pouliot | PIT | d | 51.7 | 17 | 20 |
| 18 | Jacob Larsson | ANA | d | 51.6 | 22 | 24 |
| 19 | Ryan Graves | NYR | d | 50.4 | 18 | 15 |
| 20 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | d | 50.2 | 26 | 29 |
| 21 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 49.8 | 23 | 31 |
| 22 | Will Butcher | COL | d | 49.5 | 37 | 43 |
| 23 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 47.6 | 27 | 40 |
| 24 | Mike Reilly | MIN | d | 46.6 | 25 | 28 |
| 25 | Slater Koekkoek | TBL | d | 46.5 | 21 | 21 |
| 26 | Jakub Zboril | BOS | d | 46.0 | 29 | 32 |
| 27 | Jeremy Roy | SJS | d | 45.9 | 30 | 35 |
| 28 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 45.7 | 31 | 37 |
| 29 | Kyle Wood | ARI | d | 45.4 | 47 | 51 |
| 30 | Ryan Sproul | DET | d | 45.3 | 32 | 39 |
| 31 | Jordan Subban | VAN | d | 45.2 | 33 | 23 |
| 32 | Ville Pokka | CHI | d | 44.6 | 34 | 27 |
| 33 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 44.6 | 35 | 41 |
| 34 | Joe Morrow | BOS | d | 44.6 | 28 | 33 |
| 35 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 44.5 | 36 | 38 |
| 36 | Vince Dunn | STL | d | 44.1 | 52 | 42 |
| 37 | Chris Bigras | COL | d | 44.0 | 38 | 44 |
| 38 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 43.9 | 39 | 62 |
| 39 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 43.9 | 40 | 194 |
| 40 | Parker Wotherspoon | NYI | d | 43.8 | 41 | 47 |
| 41 | Luc Snuggerud | CHI | d | 43.6 | 42 | 131 |
| 42 | Samuel Morin | PHI | d | 43.5 | 44 | 61 |
| 43 | Brendan Guhle | BUF | d | 43.4 | 45 | 49 |
| 44 | Adam Pelech | NYI | d | 43.3 | 46 | 50 |
| 45 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | d | 43.2 | 48 | 36 |
| 46 | Michal Kempny | CHI | d | 43.1 | 43 | 48 |
| 47 | Samuel Girard | NSH | d | 43.0 | 49 | 55 |
| 48 | Andrew Nielsen | TOR | d | 43.0 | 56 | 56 |
| 49 | Mackenzie Weegar | FLA | d | 42.9 | 50 | 97 |
| 50 | Devon Toews | NYI | d | 42.6 | 51 | 58 |
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