Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – January 2019
Dobber
2019-01-15
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – January edition!
As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point are a matter of team needs or personal bias. These rankings are late this month due to the extensive work done in the 11th annual Midseason Fantasy Guide (pick it up here right now!). The Midseason Guide, besides having second-half projections, also has over a dozen NCAA free agents that NHL teams are looking at, plus European players of interest, a look at the 2019 draft, some prospects who could join their NHL club late in the season and help you – and much more! Check it out here!
Friday I posted the Top 300 skaters list (you can find that here). Saturday was the Top 100 defensemen. Monday was the Top 200 prospect forwards list
Click any player name to be taken to his phenomenal prospect profile…
| Jan 10 | Prospect | Team | age | type | Dec 10 | Nov 10 |
| 1 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | d | 73.2 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 72.2 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 71.7 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Henri Jokiharju | CHI | d | 70.0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Erik Brannstrom | VGK | d | 69.7 | 5 | 8 |
| 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 | 8 | 9 |
| 9 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 63.5 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 61.8 | 10 | 11 |
| 11 | Neal Pionk | NYR | d | 60.0 | 11 | 26 |
| 12 | Adam Fox | CAR | d | 59.8 | 13 | 17 |
| 13 | Tony DeAngelo | NYR | d | 58.8 | 12 | 12 |
| 14 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 58.1 | 14 | 13 |
| 15 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 58.0 | 15 | 14 |
| 16 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 57.7 | 16 | 15 |
| 17 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 57.2 | 17 | 16 |
| 18 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | d | 56.8 | 18 | 20 |
| 19 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 56.6 | 19 | 21 |
| 20 | Victor Mete | MON | d | 56.2 | 20 | 22 |
| 21 | Travis Dermott | TOR | d | 55.0 | 22 | 24 |
| 22 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 54.9 | 23 | 25 |
| 23 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 54.7 | 25 | 37 |
| 24 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 53.8 | 37 | 62 |
| 25 | Julius Honka | DAL | d | 53.6 | 24 | 19 |
| 26 | Brendan Guhle | BUF | d | 52.8 | 21 | 23 |
| 27 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 52.5 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 52.3 | 33 | 35 |
| 29 | Devon Toews | NYI | d | 52.1 | 27 | 33 |
| 30 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 51.0 | 28 | 29 |
| 31 | Libor Hajek | NYR | d | 50.7 | 29 | 31 |
| 32 | Noah Juulsen | MON | d | 50.6 | 30 | 32 |
| 33 | Madison Bowey | WAS | d | 49.5 | 31 | 34 |
| 34 | Maxime Lajoie | OTT | d | 49.3 | 32 | 40 |
| 35 | Sebastian Aho (d) | NYI | d | 48.8 | 34 | 28 |
| 36 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | ARI | d | 48.8 | 35 | 38 |
| 37 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 48.7 | 36 | 39 |
| 38 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 47.9 | 46 | 54 |
| 39 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 47.7 | 38 | 50 |
| 40 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 47.0 | 39 | 42 |
| 41 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 46.4 | 42 | 43 |
| 42 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 46.3 | 43 | 58 |
| 43 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 46.3 | 41 | 44 |
| 44 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | d | 45.9 | 40 | 30 |
| 45 | Chad Krys | CHI | d | 45.7 | 44 | 53 |
| 46 | K'Andre Miller | NYR | d | 45.6 | 45 | 45 |
| 47 | Daniel Brickley | LAK | d | 45.3 | 47 | 46 |
| 48 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 45.3 | 48 | 47 |
| 49 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 45.3 | 49 | 48 |
| 50 | Caleb Jones | EDM | d | 45.2 | 71 | 80 |
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