Prospect Info: #90OA - Hurricanes Select LHD Domenick Fensore

[DaveG]

small 5'7 dman that has some high offensive upside.

42 points in 55 games with the NTDP, a similar rate to how what we got 2 seconds from the Rangers produced at with the NTDP

Will play for BU this coming season.

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[Anton Dubinchuk]

So small

 

[LastWordArmy]

I like what Carolina is doing in this draft.

2019 NHL Draft Scouting Reports: Prospects 91-100

 

[A Star is Burns]

Ranked 66 by Pronman who loves him some skill. It's a swing for the fences, so I'm okay given our many picks

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Love this.

 

[DaveG]

I mean if you're going to roll the dice REALLY roll em. We have enough guys in the A that could easily fill out our bottom 6 currently. Going for a skill guy like this hoping he beats the odds is more than fine with me.

FWIW if you have the Black Book the scout comments on this kid are f***ing hilarious.

 

[GoldiFox]

Fensore is one of the youngest players in this Draft. 8 days from the 2020 cutoff. That leaves room to be optimistic about his size IMO.

Happy to take swings. If it doesn't pan out then it was only one dart of many.

 

[Unsustainable]

Cool

 

[ookhaab]

IIRC someone had this guy going real high.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I mean if you're going to roll the dice REALLY roll em. We have enough guys in the A that could easily fill out our bottom 6 currently. Going for a skill guy like this hoping he beats the odds is more than fine with me.

FWIW if you have the Black Book the scout comments on this kid are ****ing hilarious.

Can you share a good one?

 

[DaveG]

Can you share a good one?

"Let's talk real life here. He's a 5'6 player but sure... let's match him up against Tom Wilson. Now we've gone and killed him".

 

[Navin R Slavin]

"Let's talk real life here. He's a 5'6 player but sure... let's match him up against Tom Wilson. Now we've gone and killed him".

He's gonna need Gerbe thighs.

 

[WreckingCrew]

He's gonna need Gerbe thighs.

She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
Knockin' me out with those Gerbe-like thighs

 

[Vagrant]

for those unsure about this pick, fensore is the very definition of a boom or bust but he's one of the best skaters at the position this year. it will be really interesting to watch him develop.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

for those unsure about this pick, fensore is the very definition of a boom or bust but he's one of the best skaters at the position this year. it will be really interesting to watch him develop.

According to that video he weighs 1154lbs.

Yikes.

 

[bleedgreen]

Hard to hit someone you have bend that deep to get down to. He gets some Quinn Hughes comparisons. I like the swing for fences approach too, but it is hard to imagine someone that short being good enough defensively to make it.

He’ll be a fun prospect to follow. That’s a trend this year, a lot of these guys look like they’ll be fun to keep an eye on.

 

[Canes]

I hope he's more than the defenseman version of Sergei Tolchinsky.

 

[Leopain]

There are rumors about moving to forward. He has been asked about it.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

There are rumors about moving to forward. He has been asked about it.

Source?

 

[Chrispy]

There are rumors about moving to forward. He has been asked about it.

Didn't see this mentioned in his USNDT writeup.

'“I was a forward until I was almost 12 then I moved to defense,” he said. “I liked seeing the ice and skating with the puck and making plays. I love defense now.”'

 

[bleedgreen]

Unless he’s Johnny Hockey or Marchand good at forward it’s irrelevant that he can play forward. You would also think if he was that good at it he would already be playing there.

He’s a dman. The art form of being a really good fourth forward/offensive dman is also a completely different mindset than forward obviously. There’s no reason to think he’d be any good at forward and it’s pretty rare that a guy who plays this style is any good moving up.

Strong chance this is a wasted pick but like others have said its good to swing for the fences, to me especially late in the draft. Picking another good old Canadian boy with character, poor skating and limited offense isn’t any more likely to help us out. You can pick a better version of that guy off waivers anyways.

 

[Pandaman11]

D.Fensore is a fantastic name because difensore in Italian means defenseman.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

D.Fensore is a fantastic name because difensore in Italian means defenseman.

Rough direct translation is “defense Orr”, which is always a good sign.

 

[Leopain]

Source?

Pronman in his rankings. Pronman also said Fensore's been asked about it through the year and at the combine.