For the third time in as many days, the Red Deer Rebels announced a signing of one of their recent WHL Bantam Draft picks.
This time it was the second of three second-round draft picks in the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft. Matteo Fabrizi joins the Rebels from the Yale Academy Lions Bantam Prep team that was 25-3-0-2 in the 2019-20 CSSBHL season.
Fabrizi signs his WHL Standard Player Agreement following being selected 31st overall.
SIGNED!
Our 2nd round pick (31st overall) Matteo Fabrizi puts pen to paper!Details: https://t.co/v1YDlwNF2z pic.twitter.com/XJH7jGLlFC
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) May 6, 2020
The defenseman stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 214-pounds and turned 15 on March 23rd of this year. He had three goals and 15 assists in 23 games.
Shaun Sutter described Fabrizi following the draft. “He’s a big guy, huge, that can skate and he can move the puck. He looks like a pro, a smart player. He’s a guy we gave a first-round grade to the whole year, so to get him in the second round we felt that was a steal, there were a lot of good defensemen in his age group, he’s a really good player so to get him there, it was a shock that he was there, but there was no way we were passing on him,” was Sutter’s assessment of the hulking defenseman.
You can read more about Fabrizi and other Red Deer Rebels draft picks in an earlier article.
