The Yukon AWG Bantam Mustangs saw a little bit of everything in their recent series against the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) AWG Bantams, but what has the team the most excited is the three straight victories.

The series was held Feb. 15-17 at the Canada Games Centre and it featured four games in total, with two being played on Saturday.

"It's a fantastic thing to have a team come over and visit," said co-coach Dave Pearson. "In Whitehorse, all too often we have to load up on a bus or jump on a plane and go quite a distance to play.

Parents that work tirelessly to raise money to get the kids out, they never get a chance to see them play, so I was pretty proud that they were able to see the kids and see them with some good success as well."

This was the last series the team will play before competing in the Arctic Winter Games and the provincials, which will conclude the 2007-08 season in March.

The Mustangs will leave for the provincials on March 7. Before that, the team will practice up to four times a week and play as many as two games against teams in the Midget division of the house league.

The Mustangs goal heading into the series involved just winning it and an opening game loss forced them to sweep the remaining three games in order to make this happen.

The loss in the first game on Friday was also tough because it occurred in a shootout after the N.W.T. tied the contest up late in the third period.

Game two began Saturday morning and the Mustangs showed their resiliency, winning the game 3-1.

The Mustangs never trailed during the game and took control of the contest with a late goal in the second period, which put them ahead 2-1.

The team scored another goal early on in the third and didn't allow the N.W.T. to get back in the contest, like they did the previous day.

The third game was highlighted by an impressive comeback, which involved the Mustangs scoring seven unanswered goals after falling behind 4-0.

The team managed to score once before the first period ended and then followed that up with a two-goal second frame. By the third period, the Mustangs had completely taken control of the game and the N.W.T. had lost all of the momentum they had earlier on in the contest.

The Mustangs carried game three's 7-4 victory over to the final contest of the series, winning it by a score of 5-3. The team also fell behind in this affair, but were able to battle back in similar fashion to the previous game to get the win.

Pearson said he was pleased with the series outcome.

"We very well could have won all four games, but the kids needed a little practice at the shootout so that's fine," he said. "I understand they need more work in the area, so it's not a bad thing that we lost in that shootout, to be honest."

He said the team was a little nervous playing in Whitehorse for the first game, and that contributed to the opening game loss.

"They really never played in front of their friends and family," Pearson said. "It was a natural occurrence that they would be nervous and probably squeeze the sticks a little bit and not quite finish the plays that they should be finishing. They settled right down and played the way they can play in the last three games."

Pearson said they are better overall as a team after playing the N.W.T. and that the series couldn't have gone any better.

"It is exactly what you want from a series," he said. "You want to be able to touch on all of those aspects of the game. Hockey is a funny sport. In a lot of ways it can come and bite you, so the kids need to know that they can play in all different kinds of situations and that they can deal with all of the different situations."