The Top 50 Prospect Defensemen to own in fantasy hockey, May edition. Parayko, Werenski make strides…

Here are this month's top defense prospects to own in a points-only keeper league. Taking into account the organization depth chart, wait time, upside and NHL certainty. This month the graduated players from this list were: Noah Hanifin and Dmitry Orlov.

+/- 5.0 rating points please consider them similar in value

Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – May 2016 – can be found here.

May 10	Prospect	Team	type	Prospect Rating	Apr 10	Mar 10
1	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	d	80.0	1	1
2	Shea Theodore	ANA	d	64.5	2	3
3	Colton Parayko	STL	d	63.3	4	4
4	Anthony DeAngelo	TBL	d	63.0	3	2
5	Ivan Provorov	PHI	d	61.1	5	9
6	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	d	60.9	6	5
7	Darnell Nurse	EDM	d	60.2	7	6
8	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	60.2	8	7
9	Zach Werenski	CBJ	d	58.4	11	18
10	Julius Honka	DAL	d	58.1	9	8
11	Colin Miller	BOS	d	57.1	13	11
12	Nikita Zadorov	COL	d	57.1	10	10
13	Connor Carrick	TOR	d	57.0	12	13
14	Jake McCabe	BUF	d	56.4	14	12
15	Joshua Morrissey	WPG	d	55.0	16	14
16	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	54.9	15	15
17	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	54.3	17	25
18	Brandon Montour	ANA	d	54.2	18	16
19	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	53.4	19	17
20	Jakub Zboril	BOS	d	52.2	22	26
21	Esa Lindell	DAL	d	52.0	24	28
22	Mike Matheson	FLA	d	51.1	21	19
23	Mike Reilly	MIN	d	51.0	23	21
24	Joe Morrow	BOS	d	50.8	25	23
25	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.3	26	24
26	Ville Pokka	CHI	d	50.0	27	50
27	Jordan Subban	VAN	d	49.7	30	34
28	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	d	48.6	29	86
29	Haydn Fleury	CAR	d	48.3	28	27
30	Jacob Larsson	ANA	d	47.7	20	33
31	Mark Pysyk	BUF	d	46.3	32	39
32	Ryan Murphy	CAR	d	46.3	33	40
33	Chris Bigras	COL	d	46.3	31	35
34	Mirco Mueller	SJS	d	46.1	39	36
35	Jeremy Roy	SJS	d	45.9	34	30
36	Slater Koekkoek	TBL	d	45.9	35	20
37	Jake Walman	STL	d	45.6	37	128
38	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	45.6	38	42
39	Samuel Morin	PHI	d	45.4	40	47
40	Brady Skjei	NYR	d	45.2	41	46
41	Chris Wideman	OTT	d	45.0	43	49
42	Roland McKeown	CAR	d	45.0	44	51
43	Xavier Ouellet	DET	d	44.8	45	37
44	Griffin Reinhart	EDM	d	44.6	42	48
45	Gustav Olofsson	MIN	d	44.4	46	81
46	Will Butcher	COL	d	44.3	48	55
47	Philip Larsen	VAN	d	44.2	36	43
48	Brett Pesce	CAR	d	44.2	49	31
49	Brandon Davidson	EDM	d	44.1	50	57
50	Niklas Hansson	DAL	d	43.6	52	62