Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – December 2019
Dobber
2019-12-23
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensement to own in your points-only keeper league – December edition!
As noted in yesterday’s post (Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – here), I ran into an issue this month and it took nearly two weeks to fix. I won’t rehash that here!
As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value, and become a matter of team need or personal bias.
Click any player name to be taken to their DobberProspects player profile.
| Dec | Prospect | Team | age | type | Nov | Oct |
| 1 | Cale Makar | COL | d | 94.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | d | 85.1 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Erik Brannstrom | OTT | d | 75.0 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Adam Fox | NYR | d | 71.5 | 10 | 12 |
| 5 | Noah Dobson | NYI | d | 70.7 | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | d | 69.8 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | d | 66.2 | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Filip Hronek | DET | d | 64.2 | 6 | 6 |
| 9 | Juuso Valimaki | CGY | d | 64.2 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Henri Jokiharju | BUF | d | 63.7 | 11 | 10 |
| 11 | Bowen Byram | COL | d | 57.5 | 8 | 0 |
| 12 | Ty Smith | NJD | d | 53.2 | 13 | 11 |
| 13 | Dennis Cholowski | DET | d | 52.7 | 15 | 16 |
| 14 | Dante Fabbro | NSH | d | 49.8 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | Rasmus Sandin | TOR | d | 49.7 | 12 | 13 |
| 16 | Pierre-Olivier Joseph | PIT | d | 49.1 | 16 | 15 |
| 17 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | d | 47.7 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 | Scott Perunovich | STL | d | 46.6 | 22 | 21 |
| 19 | Kale Clague | LAK | d | 45.6 | 19 | 18 |
| 20 | Sami Niku | WPG | d | 45.2 | 18 | 30 |
| 21 | K’Andre Miller | NYR | d | 44.6 | 20 | 19 |
| 22 | Ville Heinola | WPG | d | 44.5 | 44 | 0 |
| 23 | Ethan Bear | EDM | d | 42.6 | 41 | 42 |
| 24 | Moritz Seider | DET | d | 42.2 | 33 | 0 |
| 25 | Victor Soderstrom | ARI | d | 41.5 | 48 | 0 |
| 26 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | d | 41.3 | 26 | 25 |
| 27 | Alexander Romanov | MON | d | 41.1 | 25 | 24 |
| 28 | Ryan Merkley | SJS | d | 41.0 | 28 | 27 |
| 29 | Brendan Guhle | ANA | d | 40.9 | 30 | 29 |
| 30 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | d | 40.6 | 21 | 20 |
| 31 | Alexander Alexeyev | WAS | d | 40.3 | 23 | 22 |
| 32 | John Marino | PIT | d | 40.2 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Thomas Harley | DAL | d | 40.0 | 47 | 0 |
| 34 | Lawrence Pilut | BUF | d | 39.8 | 31 | 31 |
| 35 | Conor Timmins | COL | d | 39.4 | 27 | 26 |
| 36 | Nicolas Beaudin | CHI | d | 39.2 | 24 | 23 |
| 37 | Josh Mahura | ANA | d | 38.6 | 36 | 37 |
| 38 | Kyle Capobianco | ARI | d | 38.2 | 29 | 28 |
| 39 | Louie Belpedio | MIN | d | 37.7 | 38 | 35 |
| 40 | Philippe Myers | PHI | d | 37.4 | 32 | 32 |
| 41 | Nicolas Hague | VGK | d | 36.2 | 35 | 36 |
| 42 | Calle Rosen | COL | d | 35.8 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Bode Wilde | NYI | d | 35.7 | 34 | 34 |
| 44 | Josh Brook | MON | d | 35.4 | 40 | 40 |
| 45 | Jake Bean | CAR | d | 35.0 | 39 | 39 |
| 46 | Ian Mitchell | CHI | d | 33.7 | 37 | 38 |
| 47 | Cal Foote | TBL | d | 33.1 | 43 | 43 |
| 48 | Jett Woo | VAN | d | 32.5 | 42 | 41 |
| 49 | Jared McIsaac | DET | d | 32.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Cameron York | PHI | d | 31.0 | 50 | 0 |
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