Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – November 2025
Dobber
2025-11-21
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – November edition!
Training camps, early season results have seen a lot of movement in the rankings already. As always, prospects within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and become a matter of team needs and personal bias – sacrifice upside for immediacy? Need safe, certain help now or willing to take a swing on high upside five years from now? It may cause you to prefer one guy over the other.
Click any player name to be taken to his profile over at DobberProspects, where we have all players updated with scouting observations.
| Nov | Prospect | Team | type | Prospect Rating | Oct | Sept |
| 1 | Matthew Schaefer | NYI | LD | 145.6 | 5 | 4 |
| 2 | Alexander Nikishin | CAR | LD | 134.6 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Zeev Buium | MIN | LD | 130.9 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Sam Dickinson | SJS | LD | 128.5 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | Zayne Parekh | CGY | RD | 128.3 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Artyom Levshunov | CHI | RD | 123.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | Axel Sandin Pellikka | DET | RD | 121.0 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Cole Hutson | WAS | LD | 110.9 | 14 | 14 |
| 9 | Carter Yakemchuk | OTT | RD | 102.6 | 11 | 9 |
| 10 | Radim Mrtka | BUF | RD | 100.5 | 13 | 20 |
| 11 | Logan Mailloux | STL | RD | 98.2 | 9 | 13 |
| 12 | Luca Cagnoni | SJS | LD | 96.7 | 12 | 11 |
| 13 | Denton Mateychuk | CBJ | LD | 94.7 | 8 | 7 |
| 14 | Sam Rinzel | CHI | RD | 93.4 | 10 | 21 |
| 15 | Tanner Molendyk | NSH | LD | 92.2 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | Tom Willander | VAN | RD | 89.6 | 20 | 22 |
| 17 | Kevin Korchinski | CHI | LD | 89.2 | 18 | 12 |
| 18 | Scott Morrow | NYR | RD | 88.6 | 16 | 10 |
| 19 | Seamus Casey | NJD | RD | 86.2 | 17 | 16 |
| 20 | Lukas Cormier | VGK | LD | 82.9 | 19 | 17 |
| 21 | Emil Andrae | PHI | LD | 78.8 | 24 | 23 |
| 22 | Hunter Brzustewicz | CGY | RD | 78.0 | 27 | 28 |
| 23 | Cameron Reid | NSH | LD | 77.8 | 38 | 36 |
| 24 | Jackson Smith | CBJ | LD | 76.1 | 49 | 49 |
| 25 | Logan Hensler | OTT | RD | 75.9 | 35 | 33 |
| 26 | Sascha Boumedienne | WPG | LD | 74.0 | 48 | 47 |
| 27 | Henry Mews | CGY | RD | 73.7 | 60 | 60 |
| 28 | Tristan Luneau | ANA | RD | 73.1 | 21 | 18 |
| 29 | Lukas Dragicevic | SEA | RD | 72.2 | 36 | 43 |
| 30 | Adam Jiricek | STL | RD | 72.1 | 50 | 50 |
| 31 | Sean Behrens | COL | LD | 71.2 | 33 | 30 |
| 32 | Harrison Brunicke | PIT | RD | 70.5 | 29 | 58 |
| 33 | Anton Silayev | NJD | LD | 68.1 | 44 | 41 |
| 34 | Wyatt Kaiser | CHI | LD | 67.0 | 37 | 42 |
| 35 | Maxim Strbak | BUF | RD | 67.0 | 45 | 44 |
| 36 | David Jiricek | MIN | RD | 66.7 | 22 | 19 |
| 37 | Ethan Del Mastro | CHI | LD | 66.4 | 34 | 34 |
| 38 | Tarin Smith | ANA | LD | 66.4 | 59 | 59 |
| 39 | Kashawn Aitcheson | NYI | LD | 66.3 | 66 | 65 |
| 40 | Elias Salomonsson | WPG | RD | 66.3 | 26 | 27 |
| 41 | Shakir Mukhamadullin | SJS | LD | 66.0 | 30 | 31 |
| 42 | Ryan Ufko | NSH | RD | 65.6 | 41 | 35 |
| 43 | Leo Sahlin Wallenius | SJS | LD | 64.9 | 81 | 80 |
| 44 | Theo Lindstein | STL | LD | 64.6 | 43 | 40 |
| 45 | Henry Brzustewicz | LAK | RD | 64.4 | 95 | 95 |
| 46 | Owen Pickering | PIT | LD | 64.3 | 31 | 26 |
| 47 | Dmitri Simashev | UTA | LD | 64.3 | 23 | 24 |
| 48 | Sawyer Mynio | VAN | LD | 63.9 | 51 | 51 |
| 49 | Luca Marrelli | CBJ | RD | 63.9 | 69 | 68 |
| 50 | David Reinbacher | MON | RD | 63.5 | 28 | 29 |
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