Top 50 Fantasy Hockey Prospect Defensemen
Dobber
2018-12-12
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league.
Lots of minor tweaking this month, but nothing major worth noting here. As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point are based on your team need (wait time, certainty/risk factor, upside, likelihood).
Graduated players for this month are below the chart. Click on a player name to be taken to his DobberProspects fantasy scouting profile. Click here to see the Top 200 fantasy prospect forwards, posted Tuesday.
| Dec 10 | Prospect | Team | type | Rating | Nov 10 | Oct 10 |
| 1 | Henri Jokiharju | CHI | d | 74.2 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | d | 72.3 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 71.7 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 71.0 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Erik Brannstrom | VGK | d | 69.7 | 8 | 10 |
| 6 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 69.5 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 69.4 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 64.3 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 63.5 | 10 | 9 |
| 10 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 62.6 | 11 | 11 |
| 11 | Neal Pionk | NYR | d | 60.9 | 26 | 54 |
| 12 | Tony DeAngelo | NYR | d | 60.0 | 12 | 13 |
| 13 | Adam Fox | CAR | d | 59.8 | 17 | 25 |
| 14 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 58.1 | 13 | 12 |
| 15 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 58.0 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 57.7 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 57.2 | 16 | 18 |
| 18 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | d | 56.8 | 20 | 20 |
| 19 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 56.6 | 21 | 26 |
| 20 | Victor Mete | MON | d | 56.2 | 22 | 21 |
| 21 | Brendan Guhle | BUF | d | 55.1 | 23 | 22 |
| 22 | Travis Dermott | TOR | d | 55.0 | 24 | 23 |
| 23 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.9 | 25 | 24 |
| 24 | Julius Honka | DAL | d | 54.6 | 19 | 17 |
| 25 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 53.7 | 37 | 36 |
| 26 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 52.5 | 27 | 30 |
| 27 | Devon Toews | NYI | d | 52.1 | 33 | 39 |
| 28 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 51.5 | 29 | 29 |
| 29 | Libor Hajek | NYR | d | 50.7 | 31 | 32 |
| 30 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 50.6 | 32 | 33 |
| 31 | Madison Bowey | WAS | d | 50.2 | 34 | 34 |
| 32 | Maxime Lajoie | OTT | d | 50.0 | 40 | 42 |
| 33 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 50.0 | 35 | 40 |
| 34 | Sebastian Aho (d) | NYI | d | 48.9 | 28 | 28 |
| 35 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | ARI | d | 48.8 | 38 | 37 |
| 36 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 48.7 | 39 | 38 |
| 37 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 48.4 | 62 | 93 |
| 38 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 47.7 | 50 | 50 |
| 39 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 47.0 | 42 | 53 |
| 40 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | d | 46.9 | 30 | 27 |
| 41 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 46.8 | 44 | 44 |
| 42 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 46.4 | 43 | 41 |
| 43 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 46.3 | 58 | 59 |
| 44 | Chad Krys | CHI | d | 45.7 | 53 | 52 |
| 45 | K'Andre Miller | NYR | d | 45.6 | 45 | 45 |
| 46 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 45.4 | 54 | 55 |
| 47 | Daniel Brickley | LAK | d | 45.3 | 46 | 46 |
| 48 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 45.3 | 47 | 47 |
| 49 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 45.3 | 48 | 48 |
| 50 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 45.2 | 49 | 49 |
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