Frankie Benvenuti

Currently a journalism student at Algonquin College in Ottawa, I have always had a passion for the OHL and the Ottawa 67's in particular. I have been attending games since I was young, and being involved with sports has always been a dream of mine. Sports writing fits perfectly into that. You can also find me talking hockey on my podcast, Hockey Prospect Report, or you can find me talking Canadian Football on my other podcast and website the 13th Man Podcast!

67’s To Select 12th In OHL Priority Selection

Frankie Benvenuti | May 6, 2021

After back-to-back 50-win seasons in the nation’s capital, the Ottawa 67’s have finally been given a chance to pick inside the top 12 with a chance to bolster a depleted…

OHL Has Failed its Players By Not Returning to Play

Frankie Benvenuti | April 24, 2021

After months of back and forth with the government of Ontario, the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) announced on Tuesday that they wouldn’t be playing their 2020-21 season. It was a…

CHL Needs to Consider Extended Eligibility

Frankie Benvenuti | April 18, 2021

According to a report on Thursday morning, the OHL season is being put on hold once again (from OHL season benched until further notice as Ontario struggles with COVID-19, QP…

Mitch Marner Christian Dvorak David Branch

OHL’s Silence About Return to Play Measures Isn’t Good Enough

Frankie Benvenuti | April 12, 2021

It’s not very often that no one knows what is happening in a sports league, but that seems to be the case right now for the Ontario Hockey League. While…

OHL Season In Limbo With New Ontario Lockdowns

Frankie Benvenuti | April 6, 2021

For the third time since the COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the entire province of Ontario has been placed under lockdown. Questions were already brewing about if it was too…

67’s Sign Four Important Members of Staff to Multi-Year Extensions

Frankie Benvenuti | March 25, 2021

The Ottawa 67’s have made massive news by signing head coach André Tourigny and general manager James Boyd to six-year extensions while assistant GM Jan Egert and associate coach Mario…

Ranking the OHL dark jerseys 67's, Generals, and Knight

Ranking the Dark OHL Jerseys

Frankie Benvenuti | March 19, 2021

There can’t be a topic that gets more people interested than jerseys and lists, and when you combine the two, you are certain to get a varying array of responses…

Zach Dean – 2021 NHL Draft Prospect Profile

Frankie Benvenuti | March 15, 2021

Zach Dean 2020-21 Team: Gatineau OlympiquesDate of Birth: Jan. 4, 2003Place of Birth: Grande Prairie, AlbertaHt: 6-foot-0 Wt: 176 PoundsShoots: LeftPosition: CNHL Draft Eligibility: 2021 first-year eligible Rankings NHL Central…

Connor McMichael, OHL, London Knights, Washington Capitals

OHL Season Remains Uncertain Despite QMJHL, WHL Games

Frankie Benvenuti | March 9, 2021

Who would have thought that the two-week pause in March 2020 would reach its one-year anniversary, and we still wouldn’t be playing hockey? It’s a grim reality, and it only…

Ottawa 67's 2019 Eastern Conference Championship

Ottawa 67’s Time Machine: the Magical 2019 Playoff Run

Frankie Benvenuti | February 27, 2021

The last time the Ottawa 67’s took the ice was on March 10, 2020, when they beat the Niagara Ice Dogs 9-1 in a game that saw Thomas Johnston score…

Flyers’ Konecny’s Junior Career Paved Path for NHL Success

Frankie Benvenuti | February 16, 2021

In the current day, Travis Konecny is one of the Philadelphia Flyers’ better young players and looks to be a big part of the team’s future. The Flyers are competing…

Jets’ Connor Is Underrated Because of Eastern Bias

Frankie Benvenuti | February 9, 2021

Players in the NHL’s Western Conference have never really been given a fair shake of the stick unless they have been names like Connor McDavid or Wayne Gretzky thanks to…