Luchanko is flying as Storm knock off IceDogs in 8-5 win

The Guelph Storm were progressive successful different high-scoring crippled Friday night, putting the puck successful the nett successful the archetypal infinitesimal for the 2nd consecutive clip and going connected to an 8-5 triumph implicit the Niagara IceDogs.

Jett Luchanko, a first-round prime for the Philadelphia Flyers successful the 2024 draft, did the honours of scoring the archetypal goal, which occurred 47 seconds into the game. He finished the nighttime with 2 goals and an assist.

“Not definite if that was portion of the plan,” Luchanko said, smiling astatine the Storm’s caller scoring surge. “As agelong arsenic we are winning those games past we’re happy.”

Luchanko has 4 goals and 11 assists successful 7 games since returning to the Storm from NHL camp. He said his mindset remains the same.

“Nothing changes, conscionable support doing what I’m doing. Come to the rink, bash my hardest and bully things volition come.”

In Friday’s game, the Storm and the IceDogs headed into the 2nd play with the people tied 1-1. That’s erstwhile things started to unfastened up, with some teams scoring doubly successful the archetypal fractional of the frame.

Leo Serlin enactment Guelph up 3-2 with his extremity astatine the 10:02 mark. That was followed by Ethan Czata’s extremity for Niagara 19 seconds aboriginal to necktie it astatine 3-3, lone to person the Storm regain the pb 10 seconds aft that connected a extremity by Cam Allen.

“We cognize they’re a high-power team,” Storm caput manager Cory Stillman said of the IceDogs (13-6-0-0).

“We cognize they tin people goals, they privation to people goals. I deliberation astatine times we fto them backmost successful but arsenic agelong arsenic we people much goals than them and triumph past it is an entertaining game.”

With the people tied astatine 4-4, the Storm began to propulsion distant successful the 3rd period, scoring 4 times successful the frame. That is besides erstwhile it started getting physical.

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During a combat with 5:13 near successful the third, 3 players received 10-minute misconducts, IceDogs guardant Kevin He received a crippled misconduct for being the 3rd antheral successful a combat and goaltender Owen Flores (48 saves) was besides retired of the crippled for leaving the crease to prosecute successful a fight.

Stillman, for one, liked the mode his squad responded to the physicality of the IceDog players.

“You privation to spot a squad crippled and you privation to spot squad toughness,” helium said. “When propulsion came to shove, erstwhile they had guys connected Jett, we jumped in.”

Max Namestnikov (one goal, 3 assists), Will McFadden, Hunter Mackenzie, and Danill Skvortsov rounded retired the scoring for the Storm (6-10-1-1) portion Brayden Gillespie stopped 25 shots successful the win.

It’s a abbreviated turnaround for the Storm arsenic they big the London Knights astatine Sleeman Centre Saturday day for the 2nd clip successful the past 3 games. You tin perceive to the crippled connected 1460 CJOY.