Hahaha, that’s an option. Playing alongside junior slugs on a bad team in Guelph is always an option.
One of the major talking points for anyone that wants Luchanko to stay with the Flyers is the thought that him heading back to the Guelph Storm wouldn’t even get his offense going because it is such a poor scoring environment. Well, that might have been the case in previous seasons but it isn’t anymore.
For the 2025-26 season, the Storm added some veterans and kept a whole lot of players around. Their main acquisition this summer was getting overage forward Ethan Miedema from the Kingston Frontenacs. The 20-year-old former fourth-round pick of the Buffalo Sabres already leads the Storm in scoring with five points through the first four games and should easily be in contention to be Luchanko’s wing if he returns to Guelph.
And even then, the Storm kept solid defenseman prospect Quinn Beauchesne on the team, have plenty of veterans like Carter Stevens, Hunter McKenzie, new captain Charlie Pacquette, and even extremely young top prospects like forward Jaakko Wycisk, who should be one of the best players of the 2027 NHL Draft class. Guelph is no London or Oshawa in terms of being loaded with NHL prospects, but there is easily a path that they can take to being a playoff team this season.
The narrative around the Storm being this terrible experience like it’s the worst hockey team ever put together, should probably stop.