Donato is one of the most interesting prospects to come into the Bruins system in which he garnered most of his praise and interest in 2017-18 prior to his signing while being almost entirely out of it and taking a long, winding road to make it .
Playing 29 games with Harvard and being the Crimson’s head-and-shoulders best player certainly garnered interest from fans who could find themselves attending their games, but it was when Donato made his way to the PyeongChang Winter Games that he really made a name for himself, if not because of his individual performance (which was impressive, 6 points in 5 games), but because he was genuinely one of the only players on the US team people could A) note and B) could notice their clear talent.