I thought it was interesting that he mentions turning him into a forward. He's the same size as caulfield but a much better skater it would be an interesting experiment. I think you have a better chance of taking a small dman with good skating and hockey sense a d turning him into a forward than you do of taking a big guy with questionable skating and turning him into a power forward
It's such a different skillset though, between Forwards and Defencemen.
I'm just not a big fan of Fensore. We've been down that road with Tiny Subban, and others have gone there with guys like David Quenneville et al. There are "small defencemen" and then there are "tiny" ones. For the sub 5'10" guys, it's just so hard for them to find their way at the NHL level. It's so much length and reach to be giving up and you're generally beyond the territory where you might see some agility and skating benefits to it. Only a very small handful of pretty special players have ever really made it work in the NHL at those sort of 5'7"-5'9" height ranges as defencemen, and generally toward the taller end of that.
Like, you said earlier that he seems like he'd be a Top-5 if he were 6':
What do people think about domnick fensore, he's a 5'7" dman who played for the USA ntdp in pronmans 107 prospects for 2019 he pins him as a kid with excellent skating, puck skills, compete level, and hockey sense. If he was 6' he'd probably go top 5 from the sounds of him. Also a September 01 bday so very young.
Anyways he mentions the possiblity of drafting him and converting him to forward And really he would be pretty much the same size as caulfield. If he's there at our 3rd or 4th would you take a risk on him and hope he either has a late growth spurt or can convert to forward?
But that just doesn't seem even remotely true. He's not even the best "offensive D" on his own team. Cam York is better in pretty much every aspect across the board, including
actually being more or less 6ft tall. I haven't seen a lot of indication that Cam York is a likely Top-5 pick. Fensore certainly wouldn't be.
If you're drafting him to convert to Forward...ehhh...sure, but you have to understand that's going to be a massive project on a very small player. That's not a big percentage gamble, and you'd have to be drafting him very late accordingly. You'd also have to be drafting him trusting that BU are going to play ball on developing him as a Forward rather than a Defenceman, which is...tenuous. Last thing you want is to have your "major project" tiny forward, spending 2-3 years learning to be a defenceman in college. If you're gonna make that transition...make it early, or don't bother in most cases.
There are just too many other interesting defencemen in the draft, and forwards for that matter.
