Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your fantasy hockey keeper leagues – August edition!

This month's prospect list is adjusted based on any relation it had with the players on the overall Top 300 skaters list. It does take a small influence from the values in that list because prospects who can help immediately or who have higher upside have more value. And since those are the guys who tend to make that Top 300 list – there is a relation. On August 1, the Top 300 was fully audited thanks to the release of the Fantasy Guide and the analysis therein. So in a roundabout way, the work on the Fantasy Guide led to some tweaks in this here list.

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As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered equal in value and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs. Click on any player name to be taken to his DobberProspects fantasy profile…

The Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards were posted Tuesday here.

Aug 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	July 10	Jun 10
1	Cale Makar	COL	d	85.7	1	1
2	Quinn Hughes	VAN	d	80.3	2	2
3	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	d	74.2	3	3
4	Adam Boqvist	CHI	d	72.4	5	5
5	Evan Bouchard	EDM	d	72.0	4	4
6	Henri Jokiharju	BUF	d	68.4	6	6
7	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	68.4	7	7
8	Bowen Byram	COL	d	68.2	9	NR
9	Noah Dobson	NYI	d	67.4	8	8
10	Ty Smith	NJD	d	65.9	10	9
11	Filip Hronek	DET	d	65.6	12	11
12	Adam Fox	NYR	d	64.1	11	10
13	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	61.4	13	12
14	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	d	61.1	14	15
15	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	d	61.0	15	13
16	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	60.4	16	14
17	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	58.7	17	16
18	Kale Clague	LAK	d	57.4	18	17
19	K'Andre Miller	NYR	d	56.9	19	19
20	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	56.4	20	20
21	Scott Perunovich	STL	d	56.2	21	21
22	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	d	56.2	22	22
23	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI	d	55.5	23	24
24	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	55.3	24	23
25	Alexander Romanov	MON	d	55.0	26	26
26	Ryan Merkley	SJS	d	54.7	28	28
27	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	54.5	27	27
28	Brendan Guhle	ANA	d	54.3	25	25
29	Conor Timmins	COL	d	53.7	29	29
30	Sami Niku	WPG	d	53.5	30	30
31	Lawrence Pilut	BUF	d	53.1	31	31
32	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	53.0	32	32
33	Bode Wilde	NYI	d	52.7	33	33
34	Louie Belpedio	MIN	d	52.3	35	34
35	Calle Rosen	COL	d	52.1	34	18
36	Josh Mahura	ANA	d	51.9	36	35
37	Ian Mitchell	CHI	d	51.8	37	36
38	Josh Brook	MON	d	51.1	39	38
39	Nicolas Hague	VGK	d	51.0	40	39
40	Jett Woo	VAN	d	51.0	41	40
41	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.6	42	41
42	Cal Foote	TBL	d	50.2	45	44
43	Jake Bean	CAR	d	50.1	43	42
44	Chad Krys	CHI	d	50.1	38	37
45	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	49.1	44	43
46	Sebastian Aho (d)	NYI	d	48.0	46	45
47	Joel Persson	EDM	d	47.7	47	46
48	Caleb Jones	EDM	d	47.5	49	47
49	Cameron York	PHI	d	47.4	48	NR
50	Thomas Harley	DAL	d	47.0	50	NR