Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues – May edition!

The annual, confusing "half audit" is here. As you know (and if you don't, then I've failed in my marketing), on June 1st every year since 2007 I have released a Fantasy Prospects Report (pre-order it here). I write half of the profiles myself, while I review the other half that are submitted to me by the team at DobberProspects. By May 10, I know half of these prospects like the back of my hand, inside and out. Thus, every year on May 10 you get the "half audit". I have adjusted players from parts of all teams and all of some teams. And rather than skip the list every May, I give you what I have up to this point. So approximately half of the players on this list have yet to be reviewed and are still there based on my month-to-month monitoring, while the other half has been thoroughly analyzed and adjusted. In most cases, my monitoring has been enough and my evaluation was already fairly accurate. In some cases, you will notice some big tweaks.

As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs (wait time versus upside). Click any player name to be taken to their profile on DobberProspects and get more details on their upside and pNHLe chart.

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May 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	Apr 10	Mar 10
1	Cale Makar	COL	d	80.1	3	3
2	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	d	74.1	1	1
3	Quinn Hughes	VAN	d	73.6	2	2
4	Evan Bouchard	EDM	d	72.5	5	5
5	Adam Boqvist	CHI	d	69.5	4	4
6	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	d	68.3	6	6
7	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	65.3	7	8
8	Adam Fox	NYR	d	62.8	8	11
9	Filip Hronek	DET	d	62.2	9	18
10	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	61.1	10	13
11	Dennis Cholowski	DET	d	60.3	11	10
12	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	59.4	12	9
13	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	d	59.2	13	42
14	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	58.5	14	21
15	Kale Clague	LAK	d	58.1	15	12
16	Noah Dobson	NYI	d	57.2	16	14
17	Conor Timmins	COL	d	56.8	17	16
18	Ty Smith	NJD	d	56.6	18	25
19	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	54.9	19	20
20	K'Andre Miller	NYR	d	53.8	20	46
21	Alexander Romanov	MON	d	53.7	21	130
22	Sami Niku	WPG	d	53.4	22	24
23	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI	d	53.0	23	60
24	Lawrence Pilut	BUF	d	53.0	24	23
25	Calle Rosen	TOR	d	52.5	25	44
26	Brendan Guhle	ANA	d	52.2	26	26
27	Ian Mitchell	CHI	d	51.4	27	40
28	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	ARI	d	51.4	28	35
29	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	51.1	29	37
30	Chad Krys	CHI	d	50.7	30	45
31	Jake Bean	CAR	d	49.8	31	38
32	Ryan Merkley	SJS	d	49.7	32	29
33	Scott Perunovich	STL	d	49.6	33	67
34	Maxime Lajoie	OTT	d	49.4	34	31
35	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	48.9	35	33
36	Louie Belpedio	MIN	d	48.9	42	48
37	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	48.8	36	27
38	Sebastian Aho (d)	NYI	d	48.8	37	34
39	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	48.4	38	47
40	Josh Mahura	ANA	d	47.9	39	36
41	Joel Persson	EDM	d	47.7	40	59
42	Nicolas Hague	VGK	d	47.4	41	39
43	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS	d	47.3	43	61
44	Caleb Jones	EDM	d	47.2	44	49
45	Jett Woo	VAN	d	47.0	45	41
46	Cal Foote	TBL	d	46.4	46	43
47	Jared McIsaac	DET	d	45.0	59	66
48	Nils Lundkvist	NYR	d	44.8	48	50
49	Calen Addison	PIT	d	44.6	49	51
50	Reilly Walsh	NJD	d	44.3	50	58

UPCOMING GAMES

Dec 27 - 19:12	DET	vs	TOR
Dec 27 - 19:12	BUF	vs	CHI
Dec 27 - 19:12	CBJ	vs	BOS
Dec 27 - 19:12	N.J	vs	CAR
Dec 27 - 20:12	DAL	vs	MIN
Dec 27 - 20:12	STL	vs	NSH
Dec 27 - 21:12	UTA	vs	COL
Dec 27 - 22:12	S.J	vs	VGK